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Syreeta

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Stevie & Syreeta: A Perfect Marriage Of Musical Ideas

Interview by John Abbey, Blues & Soul, 17 July 1970

THIS YEAR, 1970, Motown are celebrating their 10th anniversary. During their ten very successful years, Stevie Wonder has been virtually an ever present. ...

Syreeta... Lady Wonder

Interview by John Abbey, Blues & Soul, 5 January 1973

I HONESTLY wonder how many people have listened to Syreeta's first Mowest album, entitled simply Syreeta, and compared it to the last record that this ...

Syreeta: Spinnin' To The Top

Interview by David Nathan, Blues & Soul, 10 September 1974

LIVING IN the footsteps is a problem which daunts performers from time to time when they come from a successful musical family – we all ...

Mose Allison, Syreeta: Bottom Line, New York NY

Live Review by Ian Dove, Rolling Stone, 24 October 1974

SYREETA WRIGHT'S exhortations were built around Stevie Wonder, whose name was mentioned often and with reverence throughout the performance. Syreeta left no doubt that she ...

Syreeta: In Her Own Wright

Interview by Tony Cummings, Black Music, December 1974

BACK IN 1967 Motown decided to give a break to one of their secretaries who was busting for a recording break. Nick Ashford and Val ...

Syreeta the Wonder Woman

Interview by Judith Sims, Rolling Stone, 2 January 1975

LOS ANGELES — Her name means "sweet singer" in India; in Swahili it means "one of uniqueness, or something like that," but Syreeta Wright claims ...

Syreeta today!

Interview by David Nathan, Blues & Soul, 1 March 1977

David Nathan catches up with the lovely lady and reports that she's feelin' on top of the world. And there's news of her upcoming album ...

Syreeta Wright: One To One (Motown t6-349ST)

Review by Tom Vickers, Phonograph Record, April 1977

MOST FEMALE singer-songwriters are prisoners of producers, and Syreeta Wright is no exception. Her most popular release, Stevie Wonder Presents Syreeta Wright, came out in ...

Billy Preston & Syreeta: Rebirth? A Fast Break is all it Takes...!

Interview by Lloyd Bradley, Blues & Soul, 29 January 1980

Lloyd Bradley talks to Billy Preston and Syreeta, the latest in a select line of classic hit pairings ...

There's No Town Like Motown

Report and Interview by Richard Cook, New Musical Express, 30 July 1983

25 years on the dancefloor, Tamla Motown is still the black music label. In the '60s, their motto was 'The Sound Of Young America' — then hard ...

Syreeta, 1946-2004

Obituary by Dave Laing, The Guardian, 13 July 2004

Stevie Wonder's partner in music and (briefly) marriage ...

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