Oakland Tribune has a feature on Rufus Wonder called
Soul legend Rufus Wonder makes music once again By Angela Hill
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Soul legend Rufus Wonder makes music once again
Oakland Tribune
Oakland Tribune
March 15, 2004 | Angela Hill, STAFF WRITER | Copyright
OAKLAND -- Rufus Wonder says going blind made him get focused again.
Of course he'd rather have his sight back, in a heartbeat. "But I'm blind. That's it," he said, seated next to two keyboards and several towering speakers in his small downtown Oakland apartment. "Now it's time to do other things. And this got me into focusing on my music again.
"It's kind of a comeback for me," Wonder said of his new CD, which will be out in a few weeks. "But I never really got out of the music thing. I just kind of laid dead for a while."
Wonder, who says he chose his pseudo surname from a sign for a ski equipment store long before he ever heard of Stevie Wonder -- and went blind long after -- is considered a "rare soul legend" by those in the soul music know. …
Oakland Tribune Article
updated Oct 2015
the full article now appears to be under a subscription type
link below
http://www.highbeam.com/doc/1P2-6976503.html
more detailed feature on Rufus w can be read here
http://capitolsoulclub.homestead.com/rufuswonderspecial.html
and his own bio page
http://www.rufuswonder.com/r_bio.html
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