Stevie Wonder

Stevie Wonder signed his first Motown contract at age 11, writing hits like Uptight before he could drive.

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Al Jarreau

Al Jarreau won Grammys in three categories -- jazz, pop, and R&B -- a rare feat that showed his elastic vocal range.

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Superstition

Written by Stevie Wonder

Very superstitious, writings on the wall
Very superstitious, ladder's 'bout to fall

This song is about...

"Superstition" charts the rituals people invent to manage what they cannot control. Stevie Wonder wrote it around a clavinet riff that sounds like a warning system, a groove that keeps circling back to the same paranoid questions. Broken mirrors, seven years of bad luck, voodoo, signs. The song treats superstition as a language people speak when they are afraid. Stevie is not above it. He is inside it, dancing through the same irrational patterns the rest of us navigate every day.

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Stevie Wonder

1972

Stevie Wonder signed his first Motown contract at age 11, writing hits like Uptight before he could drive.

Al Jarreau

2004

Al Jarreau won Grammys in three categories -- jazz, pop, and R&B -- a rare feat that showed his elastic vocal range.

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