Aveugle depuis sa petite enfance, Le grand succès de Stevie Wonder eut un impact important sur la musique moderne.
Stevie Wonder, né Steveland Judkins le 13 mai 1950 à Saginaw, Michigan, est un auteur-compositeur-interprète afro-américain. il a vendu plus de 72 millions d'albums et a reçu 22 Grammy Awards au cours d'une carrière qui s'étend sur un demi-siècle.


Free like the river
Flowing freely through infinity
Free to be sure of
What I am and who I need not be
Free from all worries
Worries prey on oneself's troubled mind
Freer than the clock's hands
Tickin' way the times
Freer than the meaning of free that man defines
Life running through me
Till I feel my father God has called
Me having nothin'
But possessing riches more than all
And I'm free
To be nowhere
But in every place I need to be

Freer than a sunbeam
Shining through my soul
Free from feelin' heat or knowing bitter cold
Free from conceiving the beginning
For that's the infinite start
I'm gone, gone but still living
Life goes on without a beating heart
Free like a vision
That the mind of only you can see
Freer than a raindrop
Falling from the sky
Freer than a smile in a baby's sleepin' eyes
I'm free like a river
Flowin' freely through infinity
I'm free to be sure of what
I am and who I need not to be
I'm much freer, like the meaning of the word free that crazy man defines
Free, free like the vision that
The mind of only you are ever gonna see
Free like the river my life
Goes on and on through infinity
Paroliers : Stevie Wonder