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Stevie Wonder Biography Released On His 60th Birthday

• 22nd Apr 2010

Signed, Sealed and Delivered: The Soulful Journey of Stevie Wonder’ by acclaimed popular music writer Mark Ribowsky is the definitive biography of one the world’s most influential and inspirational living musicians.

The book explores a career spanning almost fifty years that has seen Stevie Wonder earn more than thirty Top 10 hits, twenty-six Grammy Awards, and a place in both the Rock and Roll and Songwriter Halls of Fame – and he's not finished yet! On the verge of turning sixty, he is still composing, still touring, and still attracting dedicated fans around the world.

Released to coincide with the celebrations surrounding Stevie Wonder’s 60th birthday on 13 May 2010, ‘Signed, Sealed, and Delivered’ takes an in-depth look at Stevie Wonder’s remarkable story and his evolution from Motown prodigy into a seminal recording artist and live performer whose music helped lay the groundwork for the evolution of hip hop and rap.

Mark Ribowsky, who has previously produced the definitive popular music biographies ‘The Supremes: A Saga of Motown Dreams, Success and Betrayal’ and ‘He’s a Rebel: Phil Spector – Rock and Roll’s Legendary Producer’ delves deep into Stevie Wonder's life and extraordinary achievements as a singer-songwriter, multi-instrumentalist and producer.

Mark Ribowsky has conducted extensive interviews with Motown producers, music executives, songwriters, and musicians, including founding Temptation Otis Williams, Mickey Stevenson, surviving Funk Brother Eddie Willis, synthesizer genius Malcolm Cecil, guitar legend Michael Sembello, and many others.

‘Signed, Sealed, and Delivered’ traces Stevie's personal and musical development through the decades, from the early 1960s R&B of “Fingertips” to the social and political themes of “Living for the City” and other 1970s classics, through periods of musical and personal confusion, uncertainty, and, later, renewal.

Exploring the life, achievements, and influence of one of America's biggest musical icons and set against the history of Motown and the last fifty years of popular music ‘Signed, Sealed and Delivered: The Soulful Journey of Stevie Wonder’ is essential reading for anyone who is interested in the life and work of one of popular music’s true all-time greats.