Stevie Wonder

American and Ghanaian singer-songwriter, composer and record producer (born 1950)

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Born 1950 · age 76United States

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Born 1950
Known for
Fahrenheit 9/11
2004

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Updated 2026-08-24

Blind since infancy, he topped the charts at 13 and spent the next six decades reshaping what pop music could sound like and say. The synthesizer innovations, the socially conscious albums, the 25 Grammys — all flow from a child prodigy who refused to stay in any lane Motown built for him.

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Stevland Hardaway Morris signed to Motown at 11, branded Little Stevie Wonder, and became the youngest solo artist to hit No. 1 on the Billboard Hot 100 with "Fingertips" at 13. Through the late '60s he was the label's harmonica-playing hitmaker, but in 1972 he abandoned that sound entirely, diving into synthesizers and keyboards with Music of My Mind and Talking Book. The run that followed — Innervisions, Fulfillingness' First Finale, Songs in the Key of Life — made him the first Black musician to win Album of the Year at the Grammys and the only artist to win it three albums in a row. He spe…

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Stevie Wonder

said26 Feb 2016

I've been a vegan for two years, so that's helped my already good-looking self. I think that eating healthy is important.

— "Stevie Wonder talks being vegan and living a green lifestyle", interview with AOL (26 February 2016)

Stevie Wonder

said16 Feb 1978

Sometimes I think I would love to see … just to see the beauty of flowers and trees and birds and the earth and grass.

— As quoted in Stevie Wonder (1978) by Constanze Elsner, and Jet Vol. 53, No. 22 (16 February 1978), p. 60

Stevie Wonder

said1976

We all have ability. The difference is how we use it.

— As quoted in The Story of Stevie Wonder (1976) by James Haskins, Ch. 1 : Growing Up in a World of Darkness

Stevie Wonder

saidundated

Most cassettes are afraid of me.

Stevie Wonder

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What I’ve not heard is a unanimous commitment to atone for the sins of this country... I know that dance. I've heard those songs. It was an 18-year fight to (make) Dr.

— Quoted in Stevie Wonder calls for action on Black Lives Matter efforts: 'Move more than your mouth', Brian McCollum, Detroit Free Press,

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