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Stevie Wonder
(born Stevland Hardaway Judkins on May 13, 1950, name later changed
to Stevland Hardaway Morris)[1] 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 26 Grammy Awards[2] (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.
Blind from infancy, Wonder signed with Motown Records as a
pre-adolescent at age twelve, and continues to perform and record
for the label to this day. He has nine U.S. number-one hits to his
name (on the pop Charts, 21 U.S. R&B number one hits), and album
sales totaling more than 150 million units. Wonder has recorded
several critically acclaimed albums and hit singles, and writes and
produces songs for many of his label mates and outside artists as
well. Wonder plays the piano, synthesizer, harmonica, congas, drums,
bongos, organ, melodica, and clavinet. In his early career, he was
best known for his harmonica work, but today he is better known for
his keyboard skills and vocals.
Early life
Wonder was born on May 13, 1950 in Saginaw, Michigan. He was a
premature baby, and because the blood vessels at the back of his
eyes had not yet reached the front, a growth spurt caused the
retinas to detach and left him permanently blinded.[3] This disease
is known as Retinopathy of prematurity (ROP), and while it may have
been exacerbated by the oxygen pumped into his incubator, this
treatment was not the primary cause of his blindness. His family
later moved to Detroit when he was 4. He took up piano at age 7, and
had mastered it by age 9. During his early childhood he was active
in his church's choir. He also taught himself to play the harmonica
and the drums, and had mastered both by age ten. Wonder also learned
to play the bass during his early years at Motown. Motown founder
Berry Gordy signed him at age 11, impressed by his many musical
talents.
Personal life
Wonder has seven children from several relationships and two
marriages: in 1970, to Motown singer Syreeta Wright (the marriage
ended in divorce in 1972) and, since 2001, to fashion designer Kai
Milla Morris.[12]
His daughter, Aisha Morris, was the inspiration for his hit single
"Isn't She Lovely." Aisha Morris is a singer who has toured with her
father and accompanied him on recordings, including his 2005 album,
A Time 2 Love. Wonder has two sons with Kai Milla Morris; the older
is named Kailand and he occasionally performs as a drummer on stage
with his father. The younger son, Mandla Kadjay Carl Steveland
Morris, was born May 13, 2005, his father's 55th birthday.
In 2006, Wonder's mother died in Los Angeles, California, at the age
of 76.
Wonder is an activist for civil rights and has endorsed presumptive
2008 United States Democratic Party presidential candidate Barack
Obama. Apparently, the respect is more than mutual, as Obama
responded to a Rolling Stone interview question that asked him who
his musical heroes are by saying: "If I had one, it would have to be
Stevie Wonder. When I was just at that point where you start getting
involved in music, Stevie had that run with Music of My Mind,
Talking Book, Fulfillingness' First Finale and Innervisions, and
then Songs in the Key of Life. Those are as brilliant a set of five
albums as we've ever seen."[13]
Children:
* Aisha Morris (born April,1975) (by Yolanda Simmons)
* Keita Morris (by Yolanda Simmons)
* Kwame Morris
* Mumtaz Morris
* Sophia Morris
* Kailand Morris (by Kai Milla Morris)
* Mandla Kadjay Carl Stevland Morris (born May 13, 2005) (by Kai
Milla Morris)
Wonder's children are by wife Kai Milla Morris, Yolanda Simmons and
Melody McCulley. He never married Yolanda Simmons or Melody McCulley.
I Just Called To Say I Love You
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