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Melbourne’s Chapel Off Chapel to host a benefit concert and launch the celebrated countertenor's posthumous album.

What year did this take place? Alcatraz Prison is closed, Aretha Franklin releases “Laughing on the Outside”, Congress passes the Equal Pay Act, and Kellogg’s Froot Loops is introduced. Have you figured it out yet? Here are some more hints in the same year. Stevie Wonder releases “Recorded Live: The 12 Year Old Genius,” Gateway […]

Learn Stevie Wonder's real name and why the iconic artist behind hits such as "Superstition" and "My Cherie Amour" changed his name.

Stevie Wonder’s incredible career began when he signed his first recording contract as an eleven year old. Wonder has been blind essentially from birth, making his musical accomplishments even more challenging. After his family moved to Detroit, Wonder sang in the church choir and learned piano, drums and harmonica by the age of nine. Motown’s Berry Gordy signed him after an audition and his third album, as a twelve year old was his first hit. The 12 Year Old Genius was a live recording an...

Stephen ACourt/Supplied Under the direction of NZSO Concertmaster Vesa-Matti Leppänen, the orchestra’s performance of Vivaldi’s The Four Seasons was completely coherent – the poetry, the soloists, the orchestra, New Zealand Symphony Orchestra directed by Vesa-Matti Leppänen with Anna van der Zee, Malavika Gopal, Simeon Broom and Alan Molina (all violin). Music by Vivaldi and Piazzolla. Wellington College, May 8. Reviewed by Max Rashbrooke. I had low expectations, I’ll admit: what wa...

Music of My Mind, after more broadly asserting himself on 1971s Where Im Coming From. The first stirrings of this independent streak, however, trace back several years before to Up-Tight. Hed been in the midst of a dry spell on the charts, after becoming the youngest ever for reach No. 1 with Recorded Live: The 12 Year Old Genius in 1963. By the time this appropriately named LP arrived on May 4, 1966, he was neither 12 nor the same widely acknowledged genius anymore. To a degree, this was a ...

Stevie Wonder released 'Up-Tight,' home to his first-ever original hit single, on May 4, 1966.

Stevie Wonder Fast Facts Here is a look at the life of Stevie Wonder, singer, songwriter, producer and activist. Personal Birth Father: Calvin Judkins Mother: Lula Mae Hardaway Marriages: Tomeeka Robyn Bracy (2017-present); Karen “Kai” Millard Morris (2001-October 5, 2015, divorced); Syreeta Wright (September 14, 1970-1972, divorced) Children: with Tomeeka Robyn Bracy: Nia and Zaiah; with Kai Millard Morris: Mandla Kadjaly and Kailand; with Melody McCulley: Mumtaz; with Yolanda Simmons: Kei...

AS TEMPERATURES plunged below zero a while ago, I lay in bed listening to the rattle of the boiler and thought of the frost scene from Henry Purcell’s King Arthur. This semi-opera — “semi” because the main characters do not sing, that’s left to the show’s supernatural figures or drunks — was premiered at the Queen’s Theatre in London in 1691 during the “little ice age” of the 17th century. The poet John Dryden had written an earlier version of the libretto in 1684 to mark th...