{"id":15239,"date":"2017-04-04T10:22:15","date_gmt":"2017-04-04T10:22:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.selectspecs.com\/fashion-lifestyle\/?p=15239"},"modified":"2017-04-04T10:22:15","modified_gmt":"2017-04-04T10:22:15","slug":"the-visions-of-stevie-wonder","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.selectspecs.com\/fashion-lifestyle\/the-visions-of-stevie-wonder\/","title":{"rendered":"The Visions of Stevie Wonder"},"content":{"rendered":"

A wonder to behold.<\/h2>\n

Soul Music Legend Stevie Wonder has always maintained the same type of dark shaded\u00a0lenses for his eyewear, which have included red, orange, brown, black and\u00a0metal\u00a0frames\u00a0throughout his career which has lasted over half a century and have become just as much\u00a0 a part of\u00a0his trademark\u00a0as his wondrous talent, in fact\u00a0one of the very few times he’s been seen without wearing them was\u00a0on the album cover of his 1972 hit album “Talking Book”.\u00a0 Born Stevland Hardaway Judkins in 1950, Stevie Wonder has been blind practically since birth as a result of too much oxygen being allowed in his incubator which was done to spare is life as he was born prematurely.<\/p>\n

He grow up with a musical mother and singing gospel\u00a0whilst attending\u00a0church which was pivotal to his early musical training<\/p>\n

He signed to Tamla Motown Records in 1961 as an eleven year old musical prodigy who could not just sing but also play the drums, piano and harmonica, despite being blind. His first hit song would come two years later with the release of “Fingertips”, where he was introduced as the “Little Stevie Wonder-The 12 year old genius”. Throughout his teen years, his other major\u00a0hits included “Uptight”, “I was made to love her”, “For Once in My live ” and “My Cherie Amour”.<\/p>\n

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Stevie Wonder circa 1985 (image source<\/a>)\u00a0<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

By the end of the sixties, Stevie had become one of the major selling artists<\/a> on the Motown label, along with The Temptations, Four Tops, The Supremes, Smokey Robinson and Marvin Gaye and during this time he was becoming an accomplished songwriter,\u00a0composer\u00a0and producer and was\u00a0having more of an input on his records than previously before. On his 21st birthday in\u00a0May 1971, he had acquired full artistic control of his recordings (which was rare for any artist at that time much less a black artist) and which would later enable the\u00a0him the artistic freedom\u00a0to produce\u00a0his widely considered classic albums such as Talking Book (1972) which gave the hit single “Superstition”, Innervisions (1973) which produced the hit singles “Living for the City” and “Don’t You worry ’bout a Thing” and Songs to the Key of Life (1976) which included the singles “Sir Duke”, “Isn’t She Lovely” and “As.”\u00a0He would also become one of the pioneers in the use of synthesizers to create a futuristic sound, years before\u00a0became the compulsory instrument\u00a0in Disco\/R’n’B during the late seventies.<\/p>\n

In 1980 he released “Happy Birthday” in honour of Martin Luther King Jr which was\u00a0used in order to have the now national holiday named after the civil rights leader. During that same decade, the hits continued with the UK chart topper “I just called to say I love you” and “Part Time Lover”. He has also been socially aware with speaking out against racism especially during the apartheid era\u00a0and contributing to the USA for Africa single in 1985 and his various charitable work. At this time he was also being honoured with multiple Grammy Awards.<\/p>\n

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Stevie Wonder boycotting florida over Trayvon Martin case (image source<\/a>)\u00a0<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Although the output of albums was not as prolific, during the nineties and noughties he still continued to tour and perform and\u00a0his songs were being sampled by Hip\/Hop artists such as\u00a0Coolio'(Gansta’s Paradise)\u00a0and Ja\u00a0Rule’s (Living it Up) and being covered by other contemporary artists. Still to this day he continues to be honoured with\u00a0awards both in and outside the music industry making\u00a0him a legend in his own lifetime.<\/p>\n

These Persol<\/strong> glasses have polarized lenses which\u00a0are identical to the style of Stevie Wonder and which are also available in Havana Crystal Green and Black Crystal Green as well as Havana Crystal Brown as shown below.<\/em><\/p>\n

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Buy Now \u00bb<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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A wonder to behold. Soul Music Legend Stevie Wonder has always maintained the same type of dark shaded\u00a0lenses for his eyewear, which have included red, orange, brown, black and\u00a0metal\u00a0frames\u00a0throughout his career which has lasted over half a century and have become just as much\u00a0 a part of\u00a0his trademark\u00a0as his wondrous talent, in fact\u00a0one of the very few times he’s been seen without wearing them was\u00a0on the album cover of his 1972 hit album “Talking Book”.\u00a0 Born Stevland Hardaway Judkins in 1950, Stevie Wonder has been blind practically since birth as a result of too much oxygen being allowed in his incubator which was done to spare is life as he was born prematurely. He grow up with a musical mother and singing gospel\u00a0whilst attending\u00a0church which was pivotal to his early musical training He signed to Tamla Motown Records in 1961 as an eleven year old musical prodigy who could not just sing but also play the drums, piano and harmonica, despite being blind. His first hit song would come two years later with the release of “Fingertips”, where he was introduced as the “Little Stevie Wonder-The 12 year old genius”. Throughout his teen years, his other major\u00a0hits included “Uptight”, “I was made to love her”, “For Once in My live ” and “My Cherie Amour”. By the end of the sixties, Stevie had become one of the major selling artists on the Motown label, along with The Temptations, Four Tops, The Supremes, Smokey Robinson and Marvin Gaye and during this time he was becoming an accomplished songwriter,\u00a0composer\u00a0and producer and was\u00a0having more of an input on his records than previously before. On his 21st birthday in\u00a0May 1971, he had acquired full artistic control of his recordings (which was rare for any artist at that time much less a black artist) and which would later enable the\u00a0him the artistic freedom\u00a0to produce\u00a0his widely considered classic albums such as Talking Book (1972) which gave the hit single “Superstition”, Innervisions (1973) which produced the hit singles “Living for the City” and “Don’t You worry ’bout a Thing” and Songs to the Key of Life (1976) which included the singles “Sir Duke”, “Isn’t She Lovely” and “As.”\u00a0He would also become one of the pioneers in the use of synthesizers to create a futuristic sound, years before\u00a0became the compulsory instrument\u00a0in Disco\/R’n’B during the late seventies. In 1980 he released “Happy Birthday” in honour of Martin Luther King Jr which was\u00a0used in order to have the now national holiday named after the civil rights leader. During that same decade, the hits continued with the UK chart topper “I just called to say I love you” and “Part Time Lover”. He has also been socially aware with speaking out against racism especially during the apartheid era\u00a0and contributing to the USA for Africa single in 1985 and his various charitable work. At this time he was also being honoured with multiple Grammy Awards. Although the output of albums was not as prolific, during the nineties and noughties he still continued to tour and perform and\u00a0his songs were being sampled by Hip\/Hop artists such as\u00a0Coolio'(Gansta’s Paradise)\u00a0and Ja\u00a0Rule’s (Living it Up) and being covered by other contemporary artists. Still to this day he continues to be honoured with\u00a0awards both in and outside the music industry making\u00a0him a legend in his own lifetime. These Persol glasses have polarized lenses which\u00a0are identical to the style of Stevie Wonder and which are also available in Havana Crystal Green and Black Crystal Green as well as Havana Crystal Brown as shown below. 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