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At the 17th Grammy Awards, Stevie Wonder won the Best R&B Vocal Performance, Male for this song. [3] The single spent eight weeks on the UK Singles Chart, peaking at No 12. [4] It features Wonder's distinctive harmonica, although not his usual chromatic type, but instead a diatonic A-flat "blues harp". [5]
Ngulu may refer to: Ngulu language, a language of Tanzania; Ngulu people; Ngulu Atoll, an island in the Federated States of Micronesia; Ngulu (weapon), an execution sword of the Ngombe people; Termitomyces titanicus (chi-ngulu-ngulu), a large West African mushroom
His Lungu assistants believed that local sorcerers had wished to harm him because of his recent attempts to organise ngulu ceremonies and heal local people. [12] The following night he again felt a hostile presence in his room, this time of a "thickset creature" about the size of a badger; he awoke shouting n"damn you" and it disappeared.
Lady Wonder (February 9, 1924 – March 19, 1957) was a mare some claimed to have psychic abilities and be able to perform intellectually demanding tasks such as arithmetic and spelling. Lady's owner, Claudia E. Fonda, trained her to operate a device that she used to spell out answers to the more than 150,000 visitors.
[3] Record World said that "Wonder's venture into salsa also gives him a chance to stretch out vocally more than on past singles." [ 4 ] In Rolling Stone ' s original review of the album, Vince Aletti wrote that the song "bursts with an aching, tender passion that’s turned loose in the dense, danceable Brazilian-flavored production."
By 1976, Stevie Wonder had become one of the most popular figures in R&B and pop music, not only in the U.S., but worldwide. Within a short space of time, the albums Talking Book, Innervisions and Fulfillingness' First Finale were all back-to-back-to-back top five successes, with the latter two winning the Grammy Award for Album of the Year in 1974 and 1975, respectively.
"Wonder" is a song by Natalie Merchant, released in 1995 as the second single from her solo album Tigerlily. The single reached number 20 on the US Billboard Hot 100 and number 10 on the Canadian RPM 100 Hit Tracks chart, outperforming her previous single "Carnival" in Canada. The covers for the U.S. and European singles were different.
The song, both in its sound and length, was a change of pace for Wonder, who was trying to establish his own identity outside of the Motown sound. Besides its floaty ambience, it featured the singer as a virtual one-man band. [1] Cash Box said of the song "Superwoman, superproduction, supersong, superhit: AM and FM, pop/soul and MOR." [2]