US President Barack Obama honors Stevie Wonder
Stevie Wonder has received America’s highest award for pop music from US President Barack Obama. The singer was given the celebrated Library of Congress Gershwin Prize at a ceremony at the White House.
During his campaign trail during election time Obama had used Stevie Wonder’s classics Signed, Sealed, Delivered I’m Yours’ and Higher Ground as the theme songs for his electoral campaign.
The President paid his tribute to the star singer and said, “Stevie has always drawn on the incredible range of traditions in his music and, from that, he’s created a style that’s at once uniquely American, uniquely his own, and yet somehow universal. Indeed, this could be called the American tradition – artists demonstrating the courage, the talent to find new harmonies in the rich and dissonant sounds of the American experience.”
Truly well deserved and just last week Stevie was playing with the Jonas brothers and this week he is standing right next to the President, this man is having the time of his life, God Bless.
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