Where to Start: A Beginner’s Listening Guide to Stevie Wonder Maybe you’ve swayed to “Superstition” at a wedding reception, or hummed along to “Isn’t She Lovely” while waiting for your latte. You know the hooks, but you’ve never actually sat down with a full Stevie Wonder album. So where do you begin? That’s exactly the […]

The Best Stevie Wonder Covers by Other Artists We still remember the first time we heard a cover of “My Cherie Amour” drifting through a small café in Toronto’s Kensington Market. It wasn’t Stevie’s version, but a stripped-down acoustic take from a local singer-songwriter. For a moment, we forgot it was a cover at all. […]

Stevie Wonder’s Work for Social Causes: A Legacy of Activism When Stevie Wonder walked into the studio for the 1985 recording of “We Are the World,” he wasn’t just lending his voice to a hit song. He was one of the driving forces behind the project, helping to rally dozens of the biggest names in […]

Stevie Wonder’s Early Years at Motown: The Making of a Genius Picture a twelve-year-old blind boy from Saginaw, Michigan, walking through the doors of Hitsville U.S.A. for the first time. He can’t see the gold records on the walls or the cramped studio where Smokey Robinson just cut another hit, but he can feel the […]

Stevie Wonder’s Drum Solos and Live Performances: A Fan’s Deep Dive The first time we heard Stevie Wonder launch into a drum solo live, we were not ready. It started as a groove, then became a conversation, then a full sermon on rhythm. His hands moved like they were having their own private party, while […]

Stevie Wonder’s Biggest Chart Hits: A Fan’s Guide to His Legendary Singles We still remember the first time we heard ‘My Cherie Amour’ drifting out of a car radio on a warm summer evening — that gentle, chiming melody and Stevie’s impossibly smooth vocal wrapped around it. Something clicked, and we’ve been chasing that feeling […]

Stevie Wonder and Canada: Concerts and Fans We still get chills thinking about the night Stevie Wonder first truly owned a Canadian stage. It was the late 1960s, and a teenage prodigy from Saginaw, Michigan, stepped in front of a Toronto crowd that wasn’t quite sure what to expect. Within minutes, the room belonged to […]

Songs in the Key of Life: Why It Still Matters The first time we really heard “Isn’t She Lovely,” it was on a scratchy vinyl copy borrowed from a friend’s parents — the kind of record with a sleeve so worn you could barely read the spine. The opening harmonica line cut through the room, […]

My Cherie Amour: The Story Behind Stevie Wonder’s Timeless Classic Those opening notes drift in like a warm breeze through an open window — a gentle guitar figure, a whisper of strings, and then that voice, young and earnest, singing “La la la la la la.” For more than five decades, “My Cherie Amour” has […]

How Stevie Wonder Plays Harmonica and Keyboards: A Fan’s Deep Dive We still remember the first time that harmonica intro on ‘My Cherie Amour’ came through the speakers — that warm, reedy cry that sounds less like an instrument and more like a voice confessing something. It’s the moment that turned a lot of us […]