Ticket for a Stevie Wonder Performance in Japan

May 13 Today is Stevie Wonder’s 70th birthday! A highly successful musician (he is tied with Frank Sinatra and Paul Simon for most Album of the Year Grammys with three wins) he is was also a pioneer of using electronic music in R&B and pop. This ticket was for a performance in Japan that may have been part of the 1981 Hotter than July tour.

Ticket for a Stevie Wonder performance in Japan

Description: A ticket for a 1981 performance by Stevie Wonder in Japan. The front of the ticket is predominantly blue in color with a small horizontal strip of white beneath the larger blue block; within the blue block is a line of large black text which reads [STEVIE WONDER]. The other text is written in Japanese characters with cardinal numbers. To the left of the ticket's main body is a perforated edge with the ticket stub is still attached. The stub is white with black text. The back of the ticket has additional information in black text on white paper. A partial stamp is visible on the left side.

Data Source: National Museum of African American History and Culture

Manufactured by: Unidentified
Subject of: Stevie Wonder, American, born 1950

Date: 1981

Credit Line: Collection of the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture

Medium: ink on paper
Dimensions: H x W: 2 × 5 1/2 in. (5.1 × 14 cm)

Type: tickets

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