Stevie Wonder is a dominant cultural figure in contemporary society. For all his accomplishments as a musician, singer, composer, arranger and bandleader, Wonder is not merely pop music's renaissance man. His work and its impact must be measured outside the realms of what is conventionally thought of as the pop world. He has abolished the distinction betwen music as a reflection of mass culture or as a purely personal expression of the musician. The biggest selling artist in Motown's history, he is at the same time a musician at the cutting edge of new music.
