stevie wonder

     

Stevie Woner (born Stevland Hardaway Judkins on May 13, 1950, name later changed to Stevland Hardaway Morris) is an American singer-songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, and record producer. A prominent figure of 20th century popular music, Wonder has recorded more than thirty top ten hits, won 25 Grammy Awards (a record for a solo artist), plus one for lifetime achievement, won an Academy Award for Best Song and been inducted into both the Rock and Roll and Songwriters halls of fame. He has also been awarded the Polar Music Prize.

Trivia about stevie wonder

  • Blind since birth, he's given us such great hits as "Part-Time Lover" & "You are the Sunshine of My Life"
  • "You Are the Sunshine of My Life" was the first of his 19 Grammys, a record for rock performers
  • (Oprah Winfrey gives the clue.) One of my favorite moments on the show is when a "Star Search" winner came on to sing "Isn't She Lovely" & part way through found this man backing him up on a harmonica
  • Steveland is the real first name of this singer who went on a "Journey Through The Secret Life of Plants"
  • This performer's 1985 "Part-Time Lover" became the first single to go to No. 1 on 5 Billboard charts
  • On one of his early albums, released in 1963, he was billed as a "12 year old genius"
  • Paul McCartney had No. 1 duets in the '80s with Michael Jackson on "Say Say Say" & this man on "Ebony And Ivory"
  • His album "The 12 Year Old Genius" topped the U.S. charts in 1963
  • This man's hit song "Superstition" was originally written for guitarist Jeff Beck
  • "We Can Work It Out" worked out to be one of the songs of his 1970 album "Signed, Sealed & Delivered"
  • His song, "You Are The Sunshine Of My Life" is the last attributed quote in Bartlett's
  • Going to No. 1 on the pop charts in 1973 with "Superstition"
  • 1973:"Innervisions"
  • His No. 1 hit "I Wish" says, "Sneaking out the back door to hang out with those hoodlum friends of mine"
  • This superstar was born in Saginaw in 1950 & by 1961, signed with Motown's Berry Gordy; isn't he lovely?
  • This man "Signed, Sealed, Delivered" a harmonica solo for Elton's song "I Guess That's Why They Call It The Blues"
  • (I'm Soledad O'Brien.) My iPod is rarely without this Motown man who performed "Never Dreamed You'd Leave In Summer" at Michael Jackson's memorial
  • "Shoo-be-doo-be-do-da-day" & "Overjoyed"