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'70s music, Grammy Awards, musical interlude, Sir Duke - song, Songs in the Key of Life - album, Stevie Wonder
Songs in the Key of Life
is the Grammy Music Award winning album
by consummate musician / songwriter / singer
the incomparable: Stevie Wonder.
Released on 28 September 1976
the album is genius: a musical tour de force-
with songs of different musical genres
pop, jazz, R & B, funk.
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Not only did Mr. Wonder(ful)
take home the Grammy Award for Best Album
for Songs in the Key of Life
he also received the Grammy accolades for
Best Male Pop Vocal Performance
Best Male R & B Performance
Producer of the Year.
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Presently, Mr. Wonder is on tour, titled
“The Songs in the Key of Life Tour”
to celebrate 38 years since the album’s release
(the tour commenced in November 2014).
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Stevie Wonder
performs at Madison Square Garden, NYC
The Songs in the Key of Life Tour, 6 November 2014
(image from rollingstone.com)
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Travelling to venues throughout Canada and the United States,
the concert is a three-hour long celebration in which Mr. Wonder
sings every song from the double LP multiple award winner.
Last evening, 29 October 2015,
the Pittsburgh audience, attending at the Consol Energy Centre, enjoyed
this show of a life time: Stevie Wonder performing songs from an album
which many consider his greatest musical achievement
and one of the greatest albums of all time.
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The album features the song
Sir Duke
a personal favourite, with the lyrics which comments on
music as a “language we all understand“.
So true.
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Sir Duke
(released March 1977)
from
Songs in the Key of Life
by Mr. Stevie Wonder
(flashback performance from “back in the day”)
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Songs in the Key of Life Tour
For further details on upcoming concert dates/venues, visit:
http://www.songkick.com/artists/525345-stevie-wonder
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