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Steview Wonder was a child prodigy and got signed by Motown at age 11. He was teamed up with producer songwriter Clarence Paul. He released his first 2 albums aged 12. At about age 17 he began co-writing his songs and having greater control over his music. By age 21 he had written or co-written every song on his latest album. At about the same time, he took music theory classes for the first time. He started his own recording company and recorded and produced an entire album where he played almost all the instruments you can hear. It's called 'Music of my Mind'.
His most acclaimed albums are: Talking Book, Innervisions, and Songs in the Key of Life.
I can imagine he did his own song creating by ear, then record himself. Maybe later he found a way of writing it out, or someone did it for him. Stevie Wonder was gifted at several instruments (piano, drums, harmonica), so I can imagine he had no trouble playing what he wanted on a few other instruments to give musicians a base of what he wanted.
Stevie Wonder is awesome.
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Whether we write or speak or do but look
We are ever unapparent. What we are
Cannot be transfused into word or book.
Our soul from us is infinitely far.
However much we give our thoughts the will
To be our soul and gesture it abroad,
Our hearts are incommunicable still.
In what we show ourselves we are ignored.
The abyss from soul to soul cannot be bridged
By any skill of thought or trick of seeming.
Unto our very selves we are abridged
When we would utter to our thought our being.
We are our dreams of ourselves, souls by gleams,
And each to each other dreams of others' dreams.
Fernando Pessoa, 1918
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