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It's Stevie Wonder Week!

I predict the highlights will be (a) Stevie performing from his amazing new CD, A Time To Love, tomorrow, and (b) whatever song Paris chooses to do tonight.

STEVIE WONDER TAKES THE STAGE WITH TOP 12 FINALISTS

ON “AMERICAN IDOL”

WEDNESDAY, MARCH 15, ON FOX

 

Finalists to Perform “The Music of Stevie Wonder” Tonight

 

Legendary musician and 24-time Grammy Award winner Stevie Wonder will join the Top 12 Finalists on the AMERICAN IDOL stage tomorrow night to perform “My Love Is On Fire” from his new album “A Time To Love” on the AMERICAN IDOL results show Wednesday, March 15 (9:00-9:30 PM ET live/PT tape-delayed) on FOX. Tonight’s performance show (Tuesday, March 14, 8:00-10:00 PM ET live/PT tape-delayed), dedicated to Wonder’s amazing song catalogue, will feature the finalists’ first meeting with the renowned artist, who gave them advice as they prepared to perform his songs in the competition.

 

Born Stevland Morris in Saginaw, MI, Wonder enters his fifth decade as one of the most prolific artists in music history, having delivered 35 U.S. albums – including 28 major studio releases – with album sales totaling more than 72 million units. The singer/songwriter has garnered more than 30 Top-10 hits and 11 No. 1 pop singles. He has won 24 Grammys (and a Lifetime Achievement Grammy in '96) and a host of other awards, including induction into the Rock ‘N’ Roll Hall of Fame, an Academy Award and, most recently, Billboard's 2004 Century Award.

Comments

[LaLocke]

Stevie Wonder is an American tresure!I hope these kids can stand up andperform for him.It is hard to imagine a lot of these kidsnot messing up some of his great songs!

[David Gren]

What an idiotic idea! They spent the previous weeks telling the singers that song choice was really important, but then made them all sings Wonder songs, which put some of them at a real disadvantage. Pay him some tribute if you must, but don't make them sing his songs.

[Dobreath]

Admittedly, I'm not a huge Stevie Wonder fan (although I think some of his stuff is great) but, am I the only one that thinks his performance last night was weak? I don't think he would have made the cut if he had performed with the contestants Tuesday night..........

[Aaron]

I was wrong. The highlight was white-haired white boy Taylor Hicks singing "Living for the City" with (as Simon Cowell rightly noted) wedding-reception zeal.