Stevie Wonder #1133
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“ Eyes lie if you ever look into them
for the character of the person. ”
Stevie Wonder
Songs like "Isn't She Lovely," "Superstition" and "You Are the
Sunshine of My Life" won Stevie Wonder more than 20 Grammy
Awards and made him one of the most popular rhythm and blues
musicians of the 1960s, and 1970s. Wonder grew up in Detroit,
singing in church choirs and listening to early Motown music. In
1961, he was "discovered" and signed to a Motown contract himself,
taking the stage name of "Little Stevie Wonder." Wonder's blindness
led to inevitable comparisons with Ray Charles, at the time an
R&B superstar. Wonder went from wunderkind to groovy young
man in the late 1960s, turning out cheerful and romantic pop hits
along with protest songs about Vietnam and race relations while
experimenting with funky, Moog-driven electronic sounds. From
1972-76, he released five albums that are regarded as his master-
works: Music of My Mind (1972), Talking Book (1972), Innervisions
(1973), Fulfillingness' First Finale (1974), and Songs in the Key of
Life (1976). In the 1980s, he reached elder statesman status, winning
an Oscar for the pop tune "I Just Called to Say I Love You" (from
the Gene Wilder movie The Woman in Red.) He also emerged as
a steady advocate for making the birthday of Martin Luther King
a national holiday. It became one in 1986. Wonder's 2005, album
A Time To Love won him six more Grammy nominations, and he
won for Best Male Pop Vocal Performance ("From the Bottom of
My Heart".) His other albums include The 12 Year Old Genius (his
first album, 1963), For Once In My Life (1968), and the retrospective
original Musiquarium (1982). He was inducted into the Rock and
Roll Hall of Fame in 1989.