BY IVIE ANI • DECEMBER 13 2018

In a Billboard premiere of a clip from the podcast, Obama recalled Stevie Wonder’s Talking Book as the first record she ever owned. “That’s how good an album it was,” she said. One copy included the lyrics in braille, which she studied while listening.

“I remember spending time not only listening to the record over and over again, but trying to feel the brail and understand the words,” she said. “And I would memorize the cover because there’s something about that cover with Stevie without his glasses sitting like in a canyon area in that dashiki afghan sort of thing with the braids and all of that was… That cover to me was as much the experience of the album for me.”

She went on to talk about her other early music memories and having purchased the Jackson 5‘s “ABC” and “The Love You Save” on 45 RPM.

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