Stevie Wonder

Here is a glorious picture of Stevie using an RE20. In addition to this photographic evidence, here is a quote from Engineer Gary Olazabal, from the Sept 2007 issue of Sound on Sound re: the sessions for "Songs in the Key of Life":

"We changed his vocal mics all the time, tailoring the sound to each song, and he knew how to work a microphone. He was, for example, fond of using an Electrovoice RE20 on more aggressive songs like 'I Wish', whereas we'd use more transparent mics on ballads."

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In this random PR castoff, sporting neither an author nor a full date, a delightful quote is found re: a conversation with Bob Heil:

"Just as we were about to hang up, he said, “And do you know what one of the most touching moments I’ve had in my music career (which spans over 50 years)?” I didn’t. He went on to say, “Sarah and I were at the Hollywood Bowl watching Stevie Wonder recently and he had six of my microphones on stage.” He went on to say, “Dave, there’s not a better set of ears in the world than Stevie’s and to have him decide that my microphones are better than everything he has ever tried is quite a compliment. He has no reason to change anything he’s doing; he’s Stevie Wonder. On stage, he used a PR35 for his vocal at the acoustic piano, another at his electric piano, and four for his backup singers.”

Touching, right? But not up to the journalistic standards of Equipboard... so here is a second, more official piece of PR newswire from 2008 to reenforce.

in this video you can see Stevie Wonder using the d:facto for vocals and harmonica.

In "We Are The World" - Stevie Wonder can be seen Singing on the Telefunken (AKG) C12 Microphone in 1985

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In this YouTube excerpt or any footage of Spike Lee's 'Bad' Movie showing the actual Behind The Scenes Studio Sessions of the Bad Album especially here with Michael Jackson & Stevie Wonder collaborating & recording keep-able vocals on "Just Good Friends" recorded in 1987 - Stevie Wonder can be seen here Singing into one of Bruce Swedien's Telefunken ELA M 251 E Microphones

""He just didn't want the song to sound too light. So, aside from a little reverb, the vocal was fairly in-your-face and we recorded him sitting at the keyboard, using a Sony C500. We changed his vocal mics all the time, tailoring the sound to each song, and he knew how to work a microphone."

""On some songs we used a [Neumann] 87 for Steve's vocals, a lot of times an RE20 worked out really well for him, and there was also a Telefunken 47 that he tried and didn't like all that much but which we did use for his harmonica.""

""On some songs we used a [Neumann] 87 for Steve's vocals, a lot of times an RE20 worked out really well for him, and there was also a Telefunken 47 that he tried and didn't like all that much but which we did use for his harmonica.""

This photo shows Stevie Wonder performing at FireAid using the W9 capsule while there is an article in Forbes about the MTP W950, where it is also mentioned that Stevie Wonder is using the W9.

Stevie Wonder utilized the Shure KSM11 Capsule for Shure Wireless Microphones during his performance at the 65th GRAMMY® Awards, as confirmed by the source "Shure Captures the Sound of Music Icons at the 65th GRAMMY® Awards." His vocal performance, alongside Chris Stapleton, was delivered through the KSM11 cardioid condenser microphone paired with a Shure Axient Digital wireless transmitter.

At the FireAid event in California, Stevie Wonder is seen using the wired Lewitt MTP W950 microphone instead of the wireless W9. The video, provided by InMakin Conciertos on YouTube, captures this detail during his performance of "Love's In Need Of Love Today."