STEVIE WONDER WILL BE PERFORMING ON AMERICAN IDOLTONIGHT!!!!! @ 8 pm on FOX
March.6.06 THE OPRAH WINFREY SHOW RE-AIRS ON 3/16 A rerun of Stevie Wonder's "So What The Fuss" performance will re-air on Oprah March 16th
March.6.06 AMERICAN IDOL W/ STEVIE WONDER AIRS LIVE ON 3/15 On March 15th, final 12 American Idol contestants will exclusively perform Stevie Wonder songs culminating in Stevie one old song with the final 12 contestants and one of his new songs (TBD) from A Time To Love. This episode will also feature Stevie interacting with the contestants; giving each one advice & tips...
February.24.06 STEVIE WONDER ON BET 2/26 TUNE IN!!
Tune in to see StevieWonder on BETCelebrationofGospel on 2/26 10 & 8pm ET/PT
February.9.06 Congratulations Stevie on Winning Two Grammy Awards Stevie Wonder wins two Grammy Awards : Best R&B Performance by Dup or Group with Vocals Beyonce & Stevie Wonder - "So Amazing"
Best Male POP Vocal Performance Stevie Wonder-"From the Bottom of My Heart"
December.20.05 Double World Premiere Video of Stevie Wonder "Shelter In the Rain on AOL and iTunes!! Don't miss Stevie's new video "Shelter In the Rain" on AOL Music and iTunes. All net proceeds from the sales of "Shelter In the Rain" will go to the Wonder Foundation for Hurricane Relief Efforts.
December.9.05 Stveie Wonder get six Grammy Nominations
STEVIE WONDER GARNERS SIX GRAMMY NOMINATIONS, FIVE FOR ACCLAIMED ALBUM, “A TIME TO LOVE”
(New York, NY December 8, 2005) Universal Motown icon Stevie Wonder picked up six Grammy nominations today, five for his recently released album A Time To Love, his first studio album in more than 10 years, featuring 15 new Wonder classics. The new disc, one of the premier Motown releases of this decade, was nominated for Best R&B Album, with the title track (featuring labelmate India.Arie) being nominated for Best Pop Vocal Collaboration With Vocals. Other nominations include Best Male R&B Vocal Performance: “So What The Fuss,” Best Male Pop Vocal Performance: “From The Bottom Of My Heart,” and Best R&B Performance By A Duo Or A Group With Vocals: “How Will I Know,” featuring Stevie’s daughter Aisha Morris. Stevie was also honored in that category for his duet with Beyonce for “So Amazing,” for their contribution to the An All-Star Tribute To Luther Vandross CD.
The nominations for the 48th Annual Grammy Awards were announced in New York City this morning, with the awards being handed out on February 8th at the Staples Center in Los Angeles, and to broadcast live on CBS.
For the prolific Wonder, who has already won 22 Grammys and has received the prestigious Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award, the six nods are confirmation that A Time To Love’s evocative themes of the restorative power of love are connecting with both peers and fans.
Other highlights of A Time To Love include “If Your Love Cannot Be Moved,” (featuring Kim Burrell), “Positivity,” (also featuring his daughter Aisha Morris), and the uplifting “Shelter In The Rain,” featuring gospel legend Kirk Franklin directing the angelic chorus on a song which has been embraced as a soothing anthem of inspiration for victims and survivors of the devastating hurricanes that ravaged the gulf coast. A Time To Love also includes guest appearances by Prince and Sir Paul McCartney, who plays acoustic and electric guitar on the title track.
“Shelter In The Rain,” was specially serviced to Gospel and Christian radio stations, with all proceeds from the single directed to Stevie’s charity organization The Wonder Foundation, which has earmarked the donations for Hurricane Katrina relief efforts.
For more than four decades, Stevie Wonder has remained one of the most profound artists of our lifetime, selling more than 70 million records worldwide, and receiving hundreds of honors and awards throughout his career.
A tireless humanitarian and champion for political and social justice, Wonder was the preeminent force behind the Martin Luther King holiday and USA For Africa, as well as helping to raise awareness about the AIDS epidemic and the scourge of Apartheid in South Africa. A leading voice in the fight against world hunger, Wonder also led a “Charge Against Hunger” in conjunction with American Express, which raised over $150 million dollars to feed nearly six million African Americans yearly. Most recently, Wonder was honored by the United Negro College Fund’s Evening Of Stars Tribute to the artist, for his longtime work on behalf of the UNCF.
As a special treat for his hometown Motown fans, Stevie Wonder is scheduled to perform at the pre-game show for the Superbowl XL at Detroit’s Ford Field on February 5th.
November.7.05 Where is Stevie ?? With A Time To Love instores now, Stevie Wonder is making many international TV performances this month. Check them out: Nov.1 - Music Fair TV(Tokyo,Japan) Nov.2 - News 23 TV(Tokyo,Japan) Nov.4 - Live On Air(Tokyo,Japan) Nov.6 - Top of The POP TV(London,UK) Nov 1o - Michael Parkinson TV Nov.11 - Star Academy(Paris,France) Nov 16- UK's Rock & Roll Hall Of Fame
October.20.05 TUNE IN TO SEE STEVIE ON THE VIEW !!! Check out Stevie Wonder on The View tomrrow(10/21/05) @11am/10c
October.20.05 TUNE IN TO SEE STEVIE ON THE VIEW !!! Check out Stevie Wonder on The View tomorrow (10/21) @ 11am/10c
October.18.05 STEVIE WONDER’S NEW ALBUM A TIME TO LOVE -IN STORES TODAY!!!
(New York, NY- Oct. 18, 2005) Today, Motown Records releases A Time To Love, Stevie Wonder’s highly anticipated new CD featuring 15 new songs. The new disc, one of the premier Motown releases in recent years and ushering in an exciting new era for the record label, is a dedicated effort by the legendary artist to remind the world about the restorative power of love.
The long awaited album has already garnered glowing reviews, with The New York Times proclaiming that “Mr. Wonder has not lost his unparalleled sense of melody;” while Rolling Stone heralds the album, “…Wonder at his prime.” Enthusiasm for Wonder’s return has been unrivaled: he’s made high profile performances on TV, including The Oprah Winfrey Show and Good Morning America; and has or will appear on the nation’s top syndicated radio programs including: Tom Joyner and Howard Stern.
Among the songs included on the new album are "A Time To Love," (featuring India.Arie), "Your Love Cannot Be Moved," (featuring gospel star Kim Burrell), "Positivity," (featuring Wonder's daughter Aisha Morris), and a host of other superstar collaborations, including appearances by Prince;Narada Michael Walden; Doug E. Fresh; Sir Paul McCartney, who plays acoustic and electric guitar on the title track; Hubert Laws; Mike Phillips; En Vogue, and Bonnie Raitt on slide guitar.
Wonder once again reveals his humanitarian side on A Time To Love, with the uplifting "Shelter In The Rain." The song is an inspiring and timely anthem featuring gospel legend Kirk Franklin directing the angelic chorus, a fitting ode of healing for victims and survivors of the devastating hurricanes continuing to ravage the gulf coast. Net proceeds from the song are going to Stevie's charity organization The Wonder Foundation, which is earmarking the donations for Hurricane Katrina relief efforts.
Stevie Wonder has remained one of the world's most profound and influential artists. Winner of 22 Grammys and the prestigious Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award, with more than 100 million records sold, Wonder's received hundreds of honors and awards throughout his career.
A tireless humanitarian and champion for political and social justice, Wonder was the preeminent force behind the Martin Luther King holiday and USA For Africa, as well as helping to raise awareness about the AIDS epidemic and the scourge of Apartheid in South Africa. He has also been a leading figure in the "Charge Against Hunger" in conjunction with American Express, which raised over $150 million dollars to feed nearly six million underprivileged people yearly. Most recently, Wonder was honored by the United Negro College Fund's Evening Of Stars Tribute to the artist, for his longtime work on behalf of the UNCF.
October.15.05 A Time To Win: Enter to Win a Toshiba Gigabeat MP3 Player
The Wait is over. Stevie Wonder is here with his highly anticipated new album, A Time To Love. The new album features the smash hits “So What The Fuss”, “From The Bottom of My Heart” and “Shelter To The Rain” and features appearances by Prince, En Vogue, India.Arie and many more. Stevie’s instant classic hits stores on October 18th …but why wait? A Time To Love is now available online starting, so run out to your favorite online store and download a copy! Before you do, sign up to win 1 of 15 Toshiba GigaBeat MP3 players. Enjoy A Time To Love on the newest MP3 player to hit the digital world.
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October.13.05 Stevie Wonder on Oprah Today!!! Don't miss Stevie Wonder today on Oprah @ 4pm.
October.3.05 STEVIE WONDER IN LA TIMES Wonder's hear and tell for the press
Stevie Wonder stages a listening party for his new album to prove he is a figure of the present. By Geoff Boucher Times Staff Writer
October 1, 2005
It's an indelicate question to ask: Does a new Stevie Wonder album really matter?
Wonder is a dignified and wildly talented musician who recorded albums in the 1970s of such sublime accomplishment that he became an almost holy figure in pop culture. But that was a long time ago, and, for a man of just 55, Wonder has found himself busy lately collecting lifetime achievement awards.
The man himself is eager to prove he is a figure of the present, and earlier this week that led to the staging of a fascinating event. Journalists from around the world gathered in a plush theater on the Warner Bros. lot in Burbank and (after nearly two hours of cooling their heels) in walked the musician who has more Grammy trophies on his mantel than any other solo pop star.
After a quick apology — a murmur about a vague "family emergency" — Wonder took a seat and explained that he had come to play all 15 songs off of his upcoming album, "A Time 2 Love," and, in the silences between, he planned to tell the story of the songs. The approach is not entirely novel (Kanye West, for instance, staged a similar "listening party" with lecture not long ago), but the stature of Wonder and the fact that he has worked for a decade on this one project gave the session a type of intrigue that is uncommon for similar promotional exercises.
Wonder opened with a preamble: "It's been an ongoing project. It's something I started 10 years ago.... It's something that has come from life experiences. The joy. The pains. The moments of sorrow. The moments of happiness."
That type of earnest spirit elevated 1970s Wonder albums such as "Innervisions" and "Songs in the Key of Life" to magical heights. But then that approach also gave his later work an airy, New Age polish, and songs such as "I Just Called to Say I Love You" scored great chart success but were skewered by critics for being closer to Hallmark commercials than Hall of Fame material.
The new album is a mix of the "different" Stevie Wonders. "Passionate Raindrops" and "Can't Imagine Love Without You" fall in line with the sounds of his more polished recent hits. "Please Don't Hurt My Baby" is a sharp-edged groove about an infidelity that threatens to capsize a husband's home life, and if it sounds like a throwback to the smokestack rhythms of the old days, there's good reason.
"I started working on this way back, a long time ago ... when I was 17 or 18 years old," Wonder said. "And I kept messing with it and messing with it." The final result got a strong reaction in the room for its musical tension and the appeal of its call-and-response between the illicit lovers. The album has other wild-card sounds: "Positivity," for example, sounds like a Jackson 5 song with its youthful perspective and infectious pop phrasing.
It's clear his label and circle of supporters expect this album to be a return to form. The album is not in stores until Oct. 18, but all 15 songs were made available this week as a download through iTunes, Napster, Yahoo! and other leading online music merchants. The unusual move was made in large part to ensure the music would be eligible for Grammy consideration this year.
Wonder never specifically answered the question of why the album took a decade to assemble, but in his musings he returned repeatedly to discussing the demands and pleasures of family (he has seven children, the youngest born just this May). He also flashed signs of a perfectionist's standard that is predicably steep. "I was never afraid to release this album," he said sharply at one point, making it clear he did not belong in the Axl Rose club of artists with vapor lock in the studio.
Most of the day, though, Wonder was beaming and cracking wise, at one point calling for a show of hands from anybody in the crowd who wanted to hear only snippets of songs and — seeing none — announcing that he would play all songs in their entirety.
Over the course of a decade he had plenty of outside influences to pull on. Besides noting that he has drawn on film, television and the press for sparks of inspiration, Wonder mentioned the names or work of Dr. Dre, Luther Vandross and Rodgers and Hart as shading specific tracks. The Dre influence as well as a possible nod to Lauryn Hill's music (which itself is clearly rooted in a fondness for Wonder's songbook) was apparent in the haunting orchestral work and vocal weaving on the album's layered opening track, "If Your Love Will Not Be Moved."
The album's arching theme is about love in its various permutations in a modern world that has darkened trapdoors at every turn. Wonder was candid in revealing his own painful tumbles. Before "Shelter in the Storm," for instance, Wonder's voice dropped to a near whisper as he described the terminal illnesses of his first wife, Syreeta Wright, and his brother, Larry Hardaway. They both died in the last two years.
He told Wright they would sing the song together when she recovered. "We never got a chance to do that," Wonder said.
Family tales and personal asides were sprinkled throughout the three-hour music session and monologue. Wonder read aloud some of his lyrics from a Braille device and noted how one song had a melody that came to him during a family argument while another was recorded on his birthday with his daughter Aisha Morris, who made her first appearance on a Wonder track as the cooing infant and title subject of "Isn't She Lovely" off the 1976 album "Songs in the Key of Life."
"To do this now with her, after that and all the things that have happened, it's very special for me," Wonder said. "I still think about that even now. There are certain timbres in her voice I still hear. Her voice is better than mine. I'm getting mad."
There also are contributions on the new album from Paul McCartney, Prince, Bonnie Raitt, India.Arie and many other notables who (like McCartney) might only chime in here with some guitar work or other side role but do so to acknowledge that the return of a true music icon is no minor matter.
Wonder has been part of pop culture since he was 12 and, on Tuesday, it was remarkable how defiantly youthful his voice remains, whether it's being blasting out of a speaker in song or whispering family stories into a microphone. Wonder is not as slim as he once was, but with that 1,000-watt smile he seems very much like the young man who was a lightning rod for music in the 1960s and 1970s. His music is still hopeful too. Although he conceded that, in the days of "Innervisions," he expected all of us to be on higher ground by this point in the 21st century.
For one moment, he seemed weary. "And, you know, as much as we have grown, we have grown very little." A short time later, though, as the clock ticked toward hour three, the irrepressible smile flashed again. "This day didn't have to happen," Wonder said before putting down the microphone, "and I'm thankful."
September.26.05 STEVIE WONDER TO RELEASE NEW MOTOWN ALBUM,A TIME TO LOVE, OCTOBER 18th (New York, NY September 26, 2005) On October 18th, Motown will release A Time To Love, Stevie Wonder’s highly anticipated new CD featuring 15 new Wonder songs.
The new disc, one of the premier Motown releases in recent years and ushering in an exciting new era for the record label, is a dedicated effort by the legendary artist to remind the world about the restorative power of love. A Time To Love is also available as a digital download, September 27, at all major online music sites.
Among the songs included on the new album are "A Time To Love," (featuring India.Arie), "Your Love Cannot Be Moved," (featuring gospel star Kim Burrell), "Positivity," (featuring Wonder's daughter Aisha Morris), and a host of other superstar collaborations, including appearances by Prince; Narada Michael Walden; Sir Paul McCartney, who plays acoustic and electric guitar on the title track; Hubert Laws; Mike Philips; and En Vogue. Wonder's open-arms embrace of the collaborative process and his adherence to the musical philosophy that each project takes on a life of its own placed no artificial deadlines on the long awaited album's completion, with the end result proving to be well worth the wait.
"Stevie always has impeccable timing," stated Sylvia Rhone, President of Motown, Executive Vice President of Universal Motown. "The world is hungering more than ever right now for the kind of message only he can deliver. I speak for the entire Universal Music Group when I say nobody can illuminate our greatest hopes, soothe our deepest fears, and put us on the musical high road like Stevie Wonder."
Wonder once again affirms such a notion with the uplifting "Shelter In The Rain," an inspiring and timely anthem featuring gospel legend Kirk Franklin directing the angelic chorus on a song cited as a humanitarian ode of healing for victims and survivors of the devastating hurricanes continuing to ravage the gulf coast. The single will be specially serviced to Gospel and Christian radio stations, with net proceeds from the song going to Stevie's charity organization The Wonder Foundation, which is earmarking the donations for Hurricane Katrina relief efforts.
Wonder already has released a landmark single and video from the new album, "So What The Fuss," which contained a second, descriptive audio track on the video recorded by hip hop star Busta Rhymes, made accessible for people who are blind or have low vision. The innovative video description process was the first time a music artist enabled visually impaired music fans to experience key elements of a music video.
Stevie Wonder has remained one of the world's most profound and influential artists for more than four decades. Winner of 21 Grammys and the prestigious Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award, with more than 70 million records sold, Wonder's received hundreds of honors and awards throughout his career.
A tireless humanitarian and champion for political and social justice, Wonder was the preeminent force behind the Martin Luther King holiday and USA For Africa, as well as helping to raise awareness about the AIDS epidemic and the scourge of Apartheid in South Africa. A leading voice in the fight against world hunger, Wonder also led a "Charge Against Hunger" in conjunction with American Express, which raised over $150 million dollars to feed nearly six million underprivileged people yearly. Most recently, Wonder was honored by the United Negro College Fund's Evening Of Stars Tribute to the artist, for his longtime work on behalf of the UNCF. On October 18th, Stevie Wonder continues the special covenant he has with his fans with the release of the eagerly awaited A Time To Love.
September.23.05 Stevie Wonder’s "Shelter in the Rain" Stevie Wonder’s Shelter in the Rain will be available at most Digital outlets on September 27th
I-Tunes Rhapsody Music Match Yahoo Unlimited Sony Connect Napster Walmart.com Real MSN Music And more…
The physical CD of the song will be available in stores October 18th
All net proceeds from the sale of this record will go to the Wonder Foundation For Hurricane Katrina Relief Effortsand will be distributed to
September.22.05 Recent Stevie Sightings... The Lady Of Soul Awards where he performed and presented Aretha Franklin with the lifetime achievement awards.
UNCF's Tribute Evening with the Stars where he was honored.
September.22.05 The Stevie Wonder countdown has began... A Time To Love, Stevie Wonder's new album to hit online stores on September 27,2005!!! And also experience the new CD in stores on October 18,2005.
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