Latest News 2009
December[05] Stevie's All About The Love Again has been nominated for a Grammy in the category Best Male Pop Vocals
[01] Stevie has been announced, by UN General Secretary, Ban Ki Moon, to be a UN Messenger of Peace. The announcement which includes 10 other individuals, will be made official at a Press conference on Thursday Dec 03.
November
[11] A pre-recorded performance (9th Nov.) of Stevie singing That's What Christmas Means to Me at Disneyland (Anheim) will be broadcast as part of The Disney Christmas Parade on ABC television on Christmas Day.
[03] This year's annual House Full of Toys charity concert will take place on December 12th at the Nokia Theater, LA. The Jonas Brothers will be among the artists performing.
October
[14] Stevie to play the MGM Grand Garden Arena, Las Vegas on Nov. 28th.
[07] A collection of unreleased Jackson 5 material is to be released in November titled I Want You Back! Unreleased Masters. Included is the Stevie penned and produced song Buttercup.
[07] Stevie makes a guest appearance on Rod Stewart's upcoming album Soulbook on Stewart's cover of My Cherie Amour. The album is due for release end of October.
[07] An additional concert has been added at the The Borgata, Atlantic City on Oct. 30. See Tours page for full details.
September
[21] A concert has been added on Oct 25th at the Ted Constant Center in Norfolk, Virginia
[15] The new Brian McKnight Show premiering on Sept 21st with feature Stevie as the special guest.
[15] Stevie will appear on VH1 Diva's on Thursday 17th dueting with Jennifer Hudson.
[15] Stevie will be performing concerts at The Borgata Atlantic City Oct. 31, The Turning Stone Resort and Casino, Verona, N.Y. Oct. 23 and MGM Grand at Foxwoods on Oct. 22.
July
[23] Stevie is scheduled to appear at Rock & Roll Hall of Fame's 25th anniversary celebrations to be held October 29th & 30th. He will perform on the 29th.
[23] Watch Mandela Day Concert here
[16] The 2009 ESPY Awards, hosted by Samuel L. Jackson, included a performance and award presentation by Stevie. The show was held on July 15 at the Nokia Theater in Los Angeles and will be televised on ESPN on Sunday July 19th.
[07] Stevie performs Never Dreamed You'd Leave In Summer and They Won't Go When I Go at Michael Jackson's Memorial Service after saying, "This is a moment that I wished that I didn't live to see come."
June
[30] Stevie releases Statement in Time Magazine on Michael Jacksons death: "He would always come into the studio curious about how I worked and what I did. ‘How do you do that? Why do you do that?’ I think he understood clearly from seeing various people do the music scene that it definitely took work. He must have been around 9 or 10 then, and I definitely felt that he would be someone. You hear the voice, and all he could do is grow. And that’s what he did." Click here for the Stevie & Michael connection.
[30] Stevie dedicates concerts at Starlight Theatre, Kansas City on Friday night to Michael Jackson, Farah Fawcett and Ed McMahon.
[22] The venue for the Mandela Day Concert has been changed from Madison Square Garden to Radio City Music Hall.
[06] Stevie will be one of the performers at the Mandela Day Concert at New York's Madison Square Garden on July 18th.
[01] Stevie performed at the Michael J. Fox Foundation’s Summer Lawn Party on Saturday (May 30) which helped raise $750,000 for Parkinson’s research.
May
[24] Stevie will receive the 2009 Montreal Jazz Festival Spirit Award at the Montreal jazz festival in June.
[13] Stevie will perform at the Starlight Theater in Kansas City on June 26th
[13] Stevie will perform at the Marcus Amphitheater during Milwaukee's Summerfest on June 28th
[12] Happy 59th Birthday Stevie on May 13th.
[11] The Montreal Jazz Festival (Canada) will be opened by Stevie with a free open air concert on June 30th.
[11] Stevie will close the Mawazine (Rhythms) music festival in Rabat (Morocco) on May 23rd.
[11] Stevie attended the US President's Correspondents' Dinner at the White House on Saturday night (May 9th).
[05] On May 02 Stevie attended the funeral of singer Tyronne Aubert one half of the rhythm & blues duo the Aubry Twins.
April
[23] Change Is Now : Renewing America's Promise DVD and CD boxset will be available in stores on April 28th. The first single to be released will be Stevie's All About The Love Again
[12] New album, Renewal, by Mao Otayeck features a new Stevie composition called Wait and a Stevie harmonica solo on Carry On. Click here for more details.
[07] Stevie is scheduled to make an appearance on the television show Extreme Makeover: Home Edition this Sunday April 12th in the US.
March
[27] Stevie appeared on American Idol, commemorating Motown 50 and treated the audience to a medley of his hits.
[21] Stevie was on hand yesterday as the The Miracles received their Star on the Walk of Fame. Click here for pictures.
[20] Smokey Robinson & The Miracles will be honoured with a Star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. On hand to pay tribute will be Stevie and Berry Gordy.
[20] Stevie Wonder Live At Last DVD debuts on the Billboard Music DVD charts at Number 1, giving him a 45 year 7 month and 3 week span with Number 1's on the Billboard charts. His first being Fingertips on the Billboard Hot 100 chart in 1963.
[19] Sketches of a Life the piece composed by Stevie for the Library of Congress is now available in its complete form here.
[17] Stevie Wonder Live At Last DVD debuts on the British Music DVD charts at Number 1.
February
[28] Stevie in Performance at the White House on Feb 25th can now be seen on-line at PBS. Click here to view concert.
[24] Last night (Feb 23rd) Stevie performed a newly commissioned orchestrated composition titled Sketches of a Life before an audience of 450 invited guests at the Library of Congress. On completion he received a standing ovation and returned the stage for an encore of his songs, Overjoyed and My Cherie Amour.
[15] To commemorate the Library of Congress Gershwin Prize which Stevie will receive on Feb 23rd, the White House will host a concert on Feb 25th. The event will be broadcast on US TV the following day on PBS.
[14] Stevie closed the NAACP Awards Ceremony on Thursday Feb 12th with the song 'Black Man'
[06] Stevie has joined the list of performers for this year's 51st Grammy Awards on Sunday February 8th. This will be his 12th performance at the Grammys giving him the record for number of performances at this event. He did a duet with the Jonas Brothers and then ended the show with his new song 'All About The Love Again'.
[06] Stevie will make an appearance on Today's (Feb. 6th) Ellen Degeneres Show
January
[30] Stevie speaks to Click.the BBC's flagship technology programme about gadgets for the blind, Obama and his new song. Click here to see.
[29] Stevie and Raphael Saadiq have been nominated for a Grammy in the category Best R&B Performance By A Duo Or Group With Vocals for the songNever Give You Up, on which Stevie performs harmonica.
[27] AT LAST. Stevie Live on DVD. The official Motown release in March of the live performance at London's O2 in October 2008 which will be available on DVD and Blu-Ray.
[27] Stevie attended the funeral service of Ben Underwood (17) yesterday. A young man who was diagnosed with cancer in both his eyes when he was a toddler
[21] President's Inaugural Ball featured Stevie performing his new song, 'All About The Love', in addition to Signed Sealed Delivered. He also played harmonica to Sting's 'Brand New Day'.
[13] A CD commemorating the inauguration of President-elect Barack Obama is to be released featuring a new song from Stevie called All About the Love Again
[12] President-elect Barack Obama's inauguration events kick off on Sunday, January 18th with a celebration at the Lincoln Memorial. Stevie will be among artists performing. The event will be broadcast on HBO.
[12] At CES Stevie urged electronics manufacturers to make their products more accessible to the blind. Citing touch screen gadgets as problematic for the blind to use.