“Ability may get you to the top, but it takes character to keep you there.”

Stevie Wonder

Good morning peeps, meditation done.

Quote for the day:

“Ability may get you to the top, but it takes character to keep you there.”

Stevie Wonder

Stevie Wonder signed with Motown’s Tamla label at the age of 11 and Stevie continues to perform and record for Motown today. He is currentyly touring in the states with his Songs in the Key of Life Performance Tour. Tonight he is performing at the Thompson-Boling Arena, University of Tennessee, Knoxville.

Stevie first recorded Songs in the Key of Life in 1976 for which he won a grammy, it is one of my favourite albums of all time along with Michael Jackson’s Off The Wall.

His first single was written by Berry Gordy called I Call It Pretty Music, But the Old People Call It the Blues” and released as his début single in the summer of 1962, it almost broke into the Billboard 100, spending one week of August at 101 before dropping out of sight.

A single, “Fingertips”, was released in May 1963, and became a major hit. The song, featuring a confident and enthusiastic Stevie returning for a spontaneous encore that catches out the replacement bass player, who is heard to call out “What key? What key?”, was a No. 1 hit on the Billboard Hot 100 when Wonder was aged 13, making him the youngest artist ever to top the chart. The single was simultaneously No. 1 on the R&B chart, the first time that had occurred.

Stevie Wonder has gone on to record more than 30 U.S. top ten hits and received 25 Grammy Awards, the most ever awarded to a male solo artist, and has sold over 100 million albums and singles, making him one of the top 60 best-selling music artists.

In 2013, Billboard magazine released a list of the Billboard Hot 100 All-Time Top Artists to celebrate the US singles chart’s 55th anniversary, with Stevie Wonder at number six.

In 1994 whilst I was performing at the World Music Awards with 2unlimited in Monte Carlo I met Stevie Wonder. We were having dinner after the Awards ceremony in Prince Albert’s Palace dining room when someone from Stevie’s table came over to the 2unlimited table and said Stevie would like to meet us. We were all gob-smacked.

Stevie Wonder was the entire table’s hero and he wanted to meet us. Apparently because he is blind and couldn’t look around the room Stevie liked people to come to his table so he could feel their faces and speak to him, so he could capture the vibe of everybody who was in the room. I am telling you there have not been many more special or surreal moments in my life than Stevie Wonder touching my face at a dinner full of stars in Prince Albert of Monaco’s palace dining room!

I last saw him perform at the O2 Stadium in London in 2008, for him to be still touring in 2015 at the age of 65, 53 years after releasing his first single, performing the album Songs in the Key of Life nearly 40 years after it was released is amazing and a testamant to his abilityand strength of character.

Stevie Wonder I salute you.

Have a tremendous Tuesday peeps,

Breathe, Believe and Achieve

Be Happy, Healthy and Wise

Keep on Winning, Smiling and Living the Dream

Namaste

Steve Agyei

Founder of Beyond Lifestyle Secrets

Author of Celebrity Training Secrets