* Characters ( Stevie Wonder album ), 1987

Stevie Wonder uses a clavinet in many of his songs, such as " Superstition " and " Higher Ground ".

Rumors spread that maybe " Stevie Wonder " should be traded.

Carmine Coppola wrote and edited the musical score, including the title song " Stay Gold ", which was based upon a famous Robert Frost poem and performed for the movie by Stevie Wonder.

* " Free ", by Stevie Wonder from Characters

Stevie Wonder learned harmonica at age 5 and plays the instrument on many of his recordings.

Past winners have included Angela Lansbury ( 1988 ), Ray Charles ( 1991 ), Mel Tormé ( 1994 ), Bernadette Peters ( 1995 ), Frank Sinatra ( 2000 ), Stevie Wonder ( 2002 ), k. d.

The second Gershwin Prize for Popular Song was awarded to Stevie Wonder by U. S. President Barack Obama on February 25, 2009.

As many as 60, 000 people came to hear Dr. King as well as Mahalia Jackson, Stevie Wonder, and Peter Paul and Mary.

* 1950 – Stevie Wonder, American singer-songwriter, musician, producer, and activist

" While listening to The Today Show, musician Stevie Wonder heard a demonstration of the device and purchased the first production version of the Kurzweil Reading Machine, beginning a lifelong friendship between himself and Kurzweil.

After a 1982 meeting with Stevie Wonder, in which the latter lamented the divide in capabilities and qualities between electronic synthesizers and traditional musical instruments, Kurzweil was inspired to create a new generation of music synthesizers capable of accurately duplicating the sounds of real instruments.

" She also recorded background vocals for performances from various established artists including Stevie Wonder, Belinda Carlisle and Don Henley.

Crow with Stevie Wonder at the October 16, 2011 Martin Luther King, Jr. Memorial dedication concert

* Stevie Wonder mentions the struggle in South Africa and Stephen Biko in a tribute concert to Bob Dylan in his song " Blowing in the Wind ".

In response, Dr. King's widow Coretta Scott King and musician Stevie Wonder spearheaded a complete entertainment and convention boycott of Arizona.

The halftime show was titled " A Celebration of Soul, Salsa and Swing " and featured Big Bad Voodoo Daddy, Stevie Wonder, and Gloria Estefan.

" and " Turn the Beat Around ", then a special performance by Stevie Wonder and Estefan was given performing Estefan's hit " You'll Be Mine ( Party Time )".

Examples include the German synthpop group Kraftwerk, Stevie Wonder (" Send One Your Love ", " A Seed's a Star ") and jazz / fusion keyboardist Herbie Hancock during his late 1970s period.

* Stevie Wonder

Ironically, after Jennings left the session, the idea was dropped at the prompting of Stevie Wonder, who pointed out that Ethiopians did not speak Swahili.

By the late 1980s, complete Synclavier systems were selling for upwards of $ 200, 000, to famous musicians such as Sting, Michael Jackson and Stevie Wonder, and to major studios the world over.

* Stevie Wonder wrote the song " Sir Duke " as a tribute to Ellington in 1976.

It fell out of fashion for a while in the middle 1980s, principally due to the emergence of polyphonic and later digital synthesizers, but has enjoyed a huge resurgence of popularity since the 1990s — with contemporary artists highlighting the instrument, including Radiohead, Portishead, The Album Leaf, D ' Angelo, Erykah Badu, Chick Corea, Jamiroquai, Herbie Hancock, Steely Dan, The Doors and Stevie Wonder.

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Vandross also sings background in Stevie Wonder's 1985 hit " Part Time Lovers ".

* On Ray J's 2005 album, Raydiation, Norwood sings the line " Donny and Stevie they can Write You " on the second verse on the track, " Melody ".

As the mystery about Stevie's friends increases, Step one day discovers that the game with a very advanced graphics, that Stevie plays on the computer with his friends, does not run in front of anyone else but Stevie.

For example, a musician that plays predominantly blues influenced by rock is often labelled a blues-rock musician, such as Stevie Ray Vaughan and Double Trouble.

* Stevie Jackson: 1996 – present, vocals, electric and acoustic guitar

Stevie Ray Vaughan was the most prominent figure in Texas electric blues in the late 20th century

By age 17 he was working professionally with Stevie Wonder on electric and acoustic guitar as a studio player on Wonder's Fulfillingness ' First Finale.

In addition to playing piano and Hammond organ with the Heartbreakers, Tench is also known as a skilled session musician, having recorded with dozens of notable artists, including Johnny Cash, U2, Elisa, Stevie Nicks, Lucinda Williams, Sam Phillips, You Am I, Susanna Hoffs, Bob Dylan, Roy Orbison, The Rolling Stones, Don Henley, John Prine, Ringo Starr, John Fogerty, Elvis Costello, Bonnie Raitt, Sheryl Crow, Waylon Jennings, Paul Westerberg, X, Mary Chapin Carpenter, Carlene Carter, The dB's, Alanis Morissette, The Ramones, The Screaming Trees, The Tragically Hip, The Divinyls, The Goo Goo Dolls, Green Day, The Cult, The Jayhawks, Dave Rawlings, Fiona Apple, Lone Justice, Sean Watkins, New Found Glory, Tift Merritt, Peter Case, Neil Diamond, Ryan Adams and Powderfinger, Naughty Sweeties City of Glass, as well as many others.

* Stevie " Keys " Roseman-acoustic piano and keyboards on " The Party's Over ( Hopelessly In Love )"

In 2001, McLachlan provided background vocals, guitar, and piano on the closing track " Love Is " from Stevie Nicks ' eighth solo album, Trouble in Shangri-La, in addition to drawing the dragon used for the " S " in Stevie's name on the album cover.

Recorded live at McCabe's in Santa Monica, it featured Jim Boggio on accordion / piano, Stevie Blacke on mandolin / violin, Paul Robinson on guitar, Alex Baum on bass and Bob Scott on drums.

Educated at Taverham high school, as a teenager she was spotted recording Stevie Wonder-influenced demos at The Kitchen in Norwich with her father ( himself an experienced musician and local restaurateur ) on piano.

This instrument was inspired by a bet between Ray Kurzweil and musician Stevie Wonder over whether a synthesizer could sound like a real piano.

* Stevie Wonder – harmonica, piano, vocals

The opening bass piano notes were borrowed by Steely Dan for their song " Rikki Don't Lose That Number ", while the opening horn riff was borrowed by Stevie Wonder for his song " Don't You Worry ' Bout a Thing ".

International stars have included Laura Pausini, Madonna, Janet Jackson, Amália Rodrigues, Björk, Abdel Halim Hafez, Dave Matthews Band, Lara Fabian, Willy DeVille, Amália Rodrigues, Lou Reed, Josephine Baker, Annie Cordy, Majida El Roumi, Linda de Suza, The Animals, Petula Clark, Bülent Ersoy, Can, Ewa Demarczyk, Celine Dion, Cher, Deep Purple, Diana Ross & The Supremes, Sammy Davis Jr., Diana Krall, Dir En Grey, The Doors, Elis Regina, Eric Burdon, War, Fairuz, Dave Gahan, Jeff Buckley, Robert Plant & The Strange Sensation, Jimi Hendrix, Judy Garland, Kraftwerk, Nana Mouskouri, Haris Alexiou, Olivera Vuco, Mika, Wings, Paul McCartney, Oliver Dragojevic, Paul Simon, Led Zeppelin, David Bowie, Sarit Hadad, Bob Dylan, Black Sabbath, PJ Harvey, Tori Amos, Lady Gaga, The Corrs, Lola Beltrán, Luciano Pavarotti, Mariza, Maysa, Liza Minnelli, Morrissey, The Shadows, My Bloody Valentine, Nelly Furtado, New Order, Nick Cave, Nina Simone, Patti Smith, Phil Collins, Pet Shop Boys, Roger Hodgson, Primal Scream, Stevie Nicks, KISS, Sabah, Scorpions, Simple Minds, Frank Sinatra, Siouxsie and the Banshees, Tereza Kesovija, The Beatles, The Cure, The Jackson 5, Barry Manilow, The Mars Volta, Stephen Stills, Yolandita Monge, Otis Redding, Red Hot Chili Peppers, The Rolling Stones, Tin Machine, Mika, Björk, Umm Kulthum, Zohar Argov, Dionne Warwick, Violetta Villas, The Velvet Underground, Leon Redbone, Leonard Cohen, Manu Dibango, Katy Perry, Christina Aguilera, Sid Vicious, James Brown, Alla Pugacheva, Lili Ivanova, Queens of the Stone Age, Arctic Monkeys, Miles Kane and Arcade Fire, Zdravko Čolić & Tangerine Dream among many others.

A one-woman show about Linda's life with Porter, Love, Linda: The Life Of Mrs. Cole Porter, starring jazz vocalist Stevie Holland, ran for two separate engagements starting October 29, 2009, and closing June 9, 2010, off-Broadway at the Triad Theater.

One of his most memorable records, In the Pocket found Taylor recording in the studio with many colleagues and friends, mainly Art Garfunkel ( who duetted with him on " A Junkie's Lament " and also contributed vocals on " Captain Jim's Drunken Dream "), Carly Simon ( Taylor's wife, who harmonised with him on " Shower the People "), Stevie Wonder ( who wrote with Taylor the song " Don't Be Sad ' Cause Your Sun Is Down ", a song on which he also played the harmonica ) and also David Crosby, Linda Ronstadt and Bonnie Raitt, among others.

He has been married twice, famously dated Linda Ronstadt and Stevie Nicks in the 1970s and is now single.

Payne has worked and recorded with other musicians including J. J. Cale, Doobie Brothers, Emmylou Harris, Bryan Adams, Pink Floyd, Bob Seger, Toto, Linda Ronstadt, Jackson Browne, James Taylor, Bonnie Raitt, Helen Watson, Stevie Nicks, Shocking Edison, and Stephen Bruton.

Epstein played bass on recordings by Eric Andersen, Bob Dylan, Carlene Carter, Johnny Cash, John Hiatt, Stevie Nicks, Roy Orbison, Carl Perkins, John Prine, Linda Ronstadt, Del Shannon, The Textones, The Village People, and Warren Zevon.

Members of Venice have performed alongside, or recorded with, Bruce Springsteen, Don Henley, Elton John, Heart, Phil Collins, Sting, Melissa Etheridge, Cher, Ozzy Osbourne, Jackson Browne, David Crosby, Stevie Nicks, Billy Idol, Michael McDonald, Dave Mason, Tim Moyer, Chris Isaak, Robin Beck, Kenny Loggins, the Doobie Brothers, Styx, Brian Wilson, the Beach Boys, Dolly Parton, Linda Ronstadt, Bon Jovi, Warren Zevon and Dutch band Yellow Pearl.