STEVIE!!! (and India)
Man! Stevie Wonder. What else can you say? I’m peeping this tribute replay on BET right now, and after Ja Rule did his little jacked up rendition of “do i do”, the lovely, foine India.Arie’s set redeems the time. Girl had me in tears (doing her song “Wonderful” and stevie’s “Overjoyed”). It’s such a contrast, to see someone who’s uncomfortable with what they’re doing (mr. Rule–he appeared as if he was trying to hard to “be cool”) and someone whose heart is soo much into what they’re doing that they just do their thing.
I grew up on stevie–i still remember thinking when i was a boy “the last song i want to hear when i’m alive will be a stevie wonder song”. if i had to listen to only one artist on the planet, it would be stevie. I thought there was no other family on the planet other than the madisons who loved stevie as much as we did, and growing up i found out i was wrong. :) His music and singing is wonderful.
anyway, if you don’t know, the first album you need to pick up is fulfillingness first finale. What you don’t want to do is listen to whatever album had “Dont Drive Drunk” on it. ;)