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Barnes & Noble - Dave Gil de Rubio With A Time to Love, Stevie Wonder's first album since 1995's Conversation Peace, the multi-faceted Motown legend shows he hasn't missed a creative step. Hope, happiness, and love are at the heart of this collection, for which the legend wrote or co-wrote all of the music and lyrics. On the disc, Wonder builds off a base of funk and ballads while heading down other stylistic byways. Duets with daughter Aisha Morris, (last heard as a baby on the '70s smash "Isn't She Lovely") range from the torch-song jazz of "How Will I Know" to the uplifting and bouncy Jackson 5-flavored R&B of "Positivity." Elsewhere, the 55-year-old doles out lightly orchestrated bossa nova ... See more details below Available through our Marketplace sellers.
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Stevie Wonder (born Steveland Hardaway Judkins, name later changed to Steveland Hardaway Morris) is an American singer-songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, and record producer. A prominent figure of 20th century popular music, Wonder has recorded more than thirty top ten hits, won twenty-five Grammy Awards (a record for a solo artist) , plus one for lifetime achievement, won an Academy Award for Best Song and been inducted into both the Rock and Roll and Songwriters halls of fame. Blind from infancy, Wonder signed with Motown Records as a pre-adolescent at age twelve, and continues to perform and record for the label to this day. He has nine U.S. number-one hits to his name and album sales totaling more than 100 million units. Wonder has recorded several critically acclaimed albums and hit singles, and writes and produces songs for many of his label mates and outside artists as well. A multi-instrumentalist, Wonder plays the piano, synthesizer, talk box, harmonica, congas, drums, bongos, bass guitar, organ, melodica, and clarinet. In his early career, he was best known for his harmonica work, but today he is better known for his keyboard skills.
