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Signed, Sealed, and Delivered: The Soulful Journey of Stevie Wonder

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The first definitive biography of music legend Stevie Wonder.

Stevie Wonder's achievements as a singer-songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, and producer are extraordinary. During a career that has spanned almost fifty years, he has earned more than 30 Top 10 hits, 26 Grammy Awards, and a place in both the Rock and Roll and Songwriter Halls of Fame - and he's not finished yet. On the verge of turning 60, he is still composing, still touring, and still attracting dedicated fans around the world.

For the first time, Signed, Sealed, and Delivered takes an in-depth look at Stevie Wonder's life and his evolution from kid-soul pop star into a mature artist whose music helped lay the groundwork for the evolution of hip hop and rap.

  • Explores the life, achievements, and influence of one of America's biggest musical icons, set against the history of Motown and the last 50 years of popular music.
  • Based on extensive interviews with Motown producers, music executives, songwriters, and musicians, including founding Temptation Otis Williams, Mickey Stevenson, surviving Funk Brother Eddie Willis, synthesizer genius Malcolm Cecil, guitar legend Michael Sembello, and many others.
  • Traces Stevie's personal and musical development through the decades, from the early 1960s R&B of "Fingertips" to the social and political themes of "Living for the City" and other 1970s classics, through periods of musical and personal confusion, uncertainty, and, later, renewal.

Listen to Signed, Sealed, and Delivered to explore the life and work of one of pop music's most compelling masters of invention.

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Book details

Author
Mark Ribowsky
Imprint
Trade Paper Press, an imprint of Turner Publishing Company
Published
Pages
352
Formats
Hardcover
Subjects
Music › Genres & Styles › Pop Vocal
ISBN-13
9780470481509

About the author

MARK RIBOWSKY is the author of more than thirty books on music, sports, and popular culture. His books include biographies of Phil Spector, the Supremes, the Temptations, Stevie Wonder, Otis Redding, Lynyrd Skynyrd, James Taylor, Hank Williams, and Satchel Paige.

Ribowsky’s Don't Look Back: Satchel Paige in the Shadows of Baseball was named a New York Times Notable Book, and his biography of Otis Redding was a finalist for the Marfield Prize. He has written for Playboy, Penthouse, and Sport.

Mark lives in Florida.