London, U.K. (November 11, 2026)—Stevie Wonder has spent the last month on the road, touring to celebrate half a century of the classic double-album that earned him his third Album of the Year Grammy Award. Throughout its overseas leg, the “Songs in the Key of Life Performances—50th Anniversary Tour” has hit some of Europe’s biggest arenas, carrying audio support from Clair Global.
Each night, the 76-year-old R&B legend performs the entire Songs in the Key of Life album, including the tracks from its bonus EP, all backed by a 25-piece band that includes tour MD/keyboardist Greg Phillinganes and bassist Nathan Watts, both of whom played on the original recordings.
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As one of Wonder’s most successful albums, the record was an instant smash, debuting at number one on the Billboard 200 and staying there for 13 weeks, as it went on to sell more than five million copies. The collection also spawned four top-40 singles, including “I Wish” and “Sir Duke” which both topped the Hot 100, and Wonder’s best-known album track, “Isn’t She Lovely.”
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Throughout the European run, the tour has carried Adamson’s flagship Vergence Series large-format line array loudspeakers for P.A., becoming one of the highest-profile productions yet to carry the system. Ensuring arena audiences from Stockholm to London hear every detail in the arrangements, the tour has been using main hangs comprised of 12 VGx and 8 VGt apiece, while side hangs had 18 VGt and the 270° hangs used a dozen VGt.
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Wonder’s mid-1970s work often brought the funk, and the tour has been bringing it, too, highlighted by the show-closing “Superstition” every night. Supporting that vibe with muscular low-end are Adamson VGs subs, with eight flown and another 36 used on the ground. Meanwhile, eight CS10 boxes are used for front fills, and another four have been used for out fills. Rounding out the ample Adamson offerings on the road with Wonder are a pair of CS7p and a CS119 used out at Front of House.
While the European tour leg closes out tonight at The OVO Hydro in Glasgow, Scotland, the U.S. run gets underway next week at New York City’s Madison Square Garden before making its way across the country to its final destination at the Intuit Dome in Inglewood, Calif.
