Stevie Wonder
American and Ghanaian singer-songwriter, composer and record producer (born 1950) · United States · Musicians · also Ghana
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Something wrong?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.
A life in dates
CharactersAlbum1985Academy Award for Best Original SongAward
In Square CircleAlbum, 19851978“Sometimes I think I would love to see … just to see the beauty of flowers and trees and birds and the earth and grass.”In their words16 February 1978As quoted in Stevie Wonder (1978) by Constanze Elsner, and Jet Vol. 53, No. 22 (16 February 1978), p. 601976“We all have ability. The difference is how we use it.”In their wordsAs quoted in The Story of Stevie Wonder (1976) by James Haskins, Ch. 1 : Growing Up in a World of Darkness
Songs in the Key of LifeAlbum, 19761974
Fulfillingness' First FinaleAlbum1973
InnervisionsAlbum1971
Where I'm Coming FromAlbum1970Signed, Sealed & DeliveredAlbum1969
My Cherie AmourAlbum1967
I Was Made to Love HerAlbum1966
Down to EarthAlbum1963
Tribute to Uncle RayAlbum1962
The Jazz Soul of Little StevieAlbum1950Born13 May 1950Also in Deutsch
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Wonder rehearsing for a performance on Dutch television in 1967
Billboard advertisement, June 17, 1967
The TONTO synthesizer, built and programmed by Robert Margouleff and Malcolm Cecil, whose work and custom-built synthesizer defined the sound of Wonder's four albums between 1972 and 1974. Pictured at the National Music Centre, Canada, in 2024.
The first prototype of the Oberheim Four Voice synthesizer, as used by Wonder. The front panel still shows the braille labeling
Wonder performing in 1973, during the early years of his "classic period"
Wonder backstage at the 1990 Grammy AwardsIn their own words 5
, I've been a vegan for two years, so that's helped my already good-looking self. I think that eating healthy is important.
Sometimes I think I would love to see … just to see the beauty of flowers and trees and birds and the earth and grass.
We all have ability. The difference is how we use it.
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1.6M subscribersAlbums 24
CPConversation Peace
HJHotter Than July
FFFulfillingness' First Finale
FLFor Once in My Life
EREivets Rednow
IHI Was Made to Love Her
SCSomeday at Christmas
UAUp‐Tight (Everything's Alright)
DEDown to Earth
SBStevie at the Beach
WHWith a Song in My Heart
TSThe Jazz Soul of Little StevieAwards
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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 spent the '80s crossing into global cultural force: the campaign to make Martin Luther King Jr.'s birthday a federal holiday, chart-toppers with Paul McCartney and Michael Jackson, an Oscar for "I Just Called to Say I Love You". He's sold over 100 million records, won 25 Grammys, and in 2014 received the Presidential Medal of Freedom.
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