
Stevland Hardaway Morris (ne Judkins; May 13 1950) is known as Stevie Wonder, is an American musician and singer who is recognized as a pioneer and influence by musicians across a range of genres such as pop, blues and rhythm soul, gospel jazz, and funk. Wonder was a one-man band made use of synthesizers to produce electronic music in the 1970s. This revolutionized the R&B genre. He also helped push these genres into the album age, crafting his LPs as solid and coherent, and also incorporating thematically conscious and complex compositions. Wonder was blind since his birth began his Motown label career at the age of 11. Tamla label when he was 11. The label then gave him the stage name Little Stevie Wonder. Wonder's critical success was at its height in the 1970s. The band's "classic period" which began in 1972, saw the release of Music of My Mind. Talking Book featured "Superstition" which is one of the most renowned and distinctive sounding sounds made by the Hohner Clavinet keyboard. He won the Grammy Award as Album of the year for Innervisions (1973), FulfillingnessThe First Finale (1974), and Songs in the Key of Life ( 1976). This makes him the tie-record holder of the most Album of the year wins with three. Wonder is the sole artist to have won the Grammy Award for Album of the Year with three albums in succession. Wonder began his "commercial period" in the late 1980s. he achieved his biggest albums and highest levels of recognition, and had an increase in album sales, charitable involvement, high-profile collaborations
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