Conversation Peace

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Personnel includes: Stevie Wonder (vocals, various instruments); Edley Shine (vocals); Greg Moore, Melvin "Wah-Wah" Ragin, Ben Bridges (guitar); Charlene Atsumo, Susan Chatman, Richard Clark, Jim Getzoff, Harris Goldman, Gary Kuo (strings, harp, flute); Gary Bias, John Stephens (alto saxophone); Ernie Fields, Jr., Raymond Brown (tenor saxophone); Ronald Brown, Nolan Smith, Jr., Fernando Pullam, Jorge Arciniega (trumpet); Greg Phillinganes (keyboards); Nathan Watts (bass); Lenny Castro, Munyungo, Bill Summers (percussion); Take 6, Deniece Williams, The Winans, Sounds Of Blackness, Vinx, Anita Baker, For Real, Branford Marsalis, Terence Blanchard. Engineers: Van Arden, Steve Durkee, R.R. Harlan, Kimm James. "For Your Love" won the 1996 Grammy Awards for Best Male R&B Vocal Performance and Best R&B Song. Personnel: Stevie Wonder (vocals, guitar, keyboards, background vocals); Ben Bridges, Melvin Ragin , Greg Moore (guitar); Harris Goldman, Richard Clark, Felix Khomutov, Lila Kazakova, Debra Price, Glenn Grab Strings, Ida Bodin, Wally de Almeida, Thomas Tally, Galina Glek-Shlimovich, Tibor Zelig, Paul Baker, Jerome Webster, Gordon Halligan, Audrey Fischer, Kevan Torfeh, Charlene Atsumo, Kevin Brandon, Robert Shulgold, Marston Smith, Susan Chatman, Mark Cargill (harp, strings, flute, percussion); James Getzoff, Elenore Choate, Zain Kahn, Gary Kno, Jim Sitterly, Buddy Collette (harp, strings, flute); Branford Marsalis (saxophone); John Stephens, Gary Bias (alto saxophone); Ernie Fields Jr., Ray Brown (tenor saxophone); Jorge Areiniega, Fernando Pullum, Ronald Brown, Nolan Andrew Smith, Terence Blanchard (trumpet); Greg Phillinganes (keyboards); Gary Kuo, Lenny Castro, Munyungo Jackson, Bill Summers (percussion); Derrick Perkins (programming, loops); Daryl Coley, Deniece Williams, Dorian Holley, Kenneth Harris, Della Miles, Melody McCully, Katrina Perkins, Stephan Andrew, Aisha Morris, Bobette Harrison-Jamison, Bobette Jamison-Harrison, Katrina Harper, Jazzyfatnastees, Kimberly Brewer, Ladysmith Black Mambazo, Marva King, Marvin Winans, Keith John, Anita Baker, Stephanie Andrews, Syreeta Wright , The Winans, Nathan Watts, Julie Delgado (background vocals). Audio Mixers: Dr. Henry Panion III; Robert Margouleff; Stevie Wonder; Brant Biles. Recording information: California Record One; HIt Factory; I Der I Mobile Unit, California Wonderland Studios; Minnesota Paisley Park Studios; Mixed At Wonderland Studios; Pearl Sound Studios, MI. Illustrator: Jonathan Clark. Photographer: Todd Gray. Arrangers: Dr. Henry Panion III; Gary Hines; Marvin Winans; Stevie Wonder. CONVERSATION PEACE is made up of love songs in the key of life and life songs in the key of love, just like all the other records Stevie Wonder has made for the past 20 years. What changes, as he gets older, is just how much love he's willing to bring to a life that doesn't seem to be getting any better. 1995 means drive-by shootings, gang wars and homelessness in the urban milieu that has always been Wonder's lyrical home. But where he once got downright angry in "Big Brother," or reporterly and objective in "Living For The City," Wonder is now reaching out to his fellow man and spreading his love around. He gets murdered in both verses of the funky "My Love Is With You," and responds with bouncy pop choruses, a message to "spread the love I've given," and, only at the song's tail end, a plea to "ban the hand gun." This is the idea of love conquering all taken to an extreme. Which is not to say that Wonder has floated away from reality and landed on a cloud. He finds both good love and bad. But while a contemporary like Neil Young might top a song about poverty, crack and homelessness with a sarcastic call to "keep on rockin' in the free world," Wonder is deeply sincere and optimistic. His chorus to such a song calls for taking "the time out to love someone." There is still toughness in his heart and even in his voice--on "Tomorrow Robins Will Sing," he follows Edley S
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