Stevie Wonder
The Very Best Of

THE REVIEW

An album that speaks of a legend of soul music, 2 CDs, 40 tracks that crown the story of the dream of racial redemption, the dream of a little boy who, despite being blind, was already playing the piano at 4 years old, that dream of then, today, a page of history. His "soul" origins have characterized and defined the musical genius that forced the soul to emerge from the ghettoized body, through the scale of notes: that soul transformed into music and poetry, moved and decreed that Talent has no color.

A condensed 35 years of music always at a very high level, clear symptom of a fertility of genius that knows no pauses, indeed grows immeasurably and in all directions: Stevie, besides playing the piano, tries his hand at drums, percussion, keyboards, and bass, in short, he plays everything on a record that remembers him with the sound of the early successes, characterized by the extraordinary sensitivity of his young years, so here is the very delicate "You Are The Sunshine Of My Life" and the mythical "Sir Duke" (from the series "I'll let you hear the brass!"), but also with the tracks manifesting extraordinary inner and musical growth "Isn't She Lovely" for instance, a massive watershed between the early Stevie and the more recent one, the one who had overcome all doubt, all perplexity, a Man and an Artist with his affirmations. And it is from then on that Stevie changes pace, seizes changes and is ready to experiment with them "Master Blaster," is a significant expression of this. The unstoppable Talent, increasingly attracted by musical explorations, has often duetted in voice and composition with Artists of different musical cultures and has been a reason and source of inspiration for many Artists of global fame.

This is a record that, even if not liked, you recognize the Talent, the musical marvel of a collection, precious like a necklace of pearls. And to think that as a child someone had told him: "you are black, poor, and blind... may God have mercy on you!" And so it was.