Stevie Wonder is one of those people who will always be a classic to me. His voice and the soul he puts into his music are amazing, from his early hits in the recording studio to the recent performance I had the honor of witnessing recently at Austin City Limits. After this performance, I became an avid Stevie Wonder fan. I had already heard a number of his hits before seeing the concert, such as Ebony and Ivory and Isn't She Lovely, but it was only post-concert that I discovered the incredible musicality and diversity of music that is Stevie Wonder. Besides his apparent variance from song to song, Stevie Wonder has an incredible musical talent--as a blind man, he is an incredible pianist and amazing singer. In the song Superstition, one of his all time classics, he hits a high C# as the highest note for his song. While this is absolutely an astounding feat for a singer, what was even more incredible to me was that at ACL he hit the same note nearly 40 years later. So many bands sound so much different in studio then in a concert even while they're young, so for Stevie to give such an amazing performance today is almost unheard of. My hat is off, and will eternally be so, for the god of soul with the voice of an angel, Stevie himself.
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