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Stevland Hardaway Morris, known professionally as Stevie Wonder, is an American singer-songwriter, musician, and record producer. He is widely regarded as one of the most influential musicians of the 20th century, and is credited as a pioneer and influence by musicians across a range of genres that include R&B, pop, soul, gospel, funk, and jazz. A virtual one-man band during much of his peak years…
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Yahoo: Stevie Wonder's Songs in the Key of Life: Greatest Albums
Yahoo: Celebrating 53 Years of Stevie Wonder's Grammy-Winning Album 'Innervisions'
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Snopes rated the claim “A mention of singer Stevie Wonder's refusal to play for the Israeli army appears in the documents related to the case of late sex offender Jeffrey Epstein.” True.
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The New York Times named Wonder one of the "30 Greatest Living American Songwriters
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Published video “Stevie Wonder’s 26th House Full of Toys Benefit Celebration”.
American Songwriter: 3 Gorgeous Songs You Didn’t Know Stevie Wonder Wrote for Other Musicians
The Guardian: Stevie Wonder review – a riotously joyful celebration
Released album “2025-07-03: Lytham Green, Lytham St Annes, Lancashire, UK”.
Headlined at the Lytham Festival, in Lytham St Annes, Lancashire, UK
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The Guardian: ‘I’m closer to the end than the beginning’: British soul legend Omar on EastEnders, Stevie Wonder and his industry battles
The Guardian: Music flows as Stevie Wonder and Lauryn Hill lead tributes at Roberta Flack memorial
Released album “Greatest Hits Live Broadcast Collection”.
The Guardian: From Bob Dylan to Stevie Wonder: the best late-era albums by musical greats
Released ep “Christmas Time”.
The Guardian: Stevie Wonder, Oprah Winfrey, Paul McCartney and more pay tribute to Quincy Jones
Published video “Fixing Our Nation’s Broken Heart – Stevie Meets With LA Mayor Bass”.
Published video “The Universe Is Watching Us – We Need Music That Feeds Our Soul As We Fix Our Nation’s Broken Heart!”.
New York Post: Stevie Wonder announces 2024 tour, MSG concert. Get tickets today
Ultimate Classic Rock: Stevie Wonder Announces October 2024 US Tour
Business Wire: Stevie Wonder Says “Sing Your Song! As We Fix Our Nation’s Broken Heart” With 10 Performances This October
Published video “Listen to The Wonder of Stevie, streaming now exclusively on Audible. @audible @amazonmusic”.
Published video “Stevie Wonder - Can We Fix Our Nation’s Broken Heart (Official Lyric Video)”.
American Songwriter: Listen to Stevie Wonder’s New Single, “Can We Fix Our Nation’s Broken Heart,” a Heartfelt Plea for Unity
Wonder released his first new song in four years, "Can We Fix Our Nation's Broken Heart"
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The Guardian: Oprah to Stevie Wonder: celebrities take to stage on day three of Democratic convention – video
Wonder performed "Higher Ground" at the 2024 Democratic National Convention, endorsing Vice President Kamala Harris in the 2024 United States presidential election
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Forbes: Stevie Wonder Debuts On A Chart For The First Time Almost 65 Years Into His Career
Wonder's 74th birthday, Ghana's President Nana Akufo-Addo conferred Ghanaian citizenship on him
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Forbes: Stevie Wonder Hits A Billboard Chart For The First Time 60 Years Into His Career
Neil McCormick of The Daily Telegraph ranked him the fifth greatest keyboard player of all time
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Published video “The Universe Is Watching Us – Our Unimaginable Fate……”.
Published video “The Iowa Caucuses On King Holiday??”.
Published video “The Universe Is Watching Us”.
Released album “Live Berkeley 1973”.
Released album “Live on Air Tonight”.
Published video “UKRAINE, YOU AND I…. THE WORLD”.
Awarded Wolf Prize in Arts (2021).
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Snopes rated the claim “An image shows a print advertisement with musician Stevie Wonder endorsing the Atari 2600 video game console.” False.
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Snopes rated the claim “Music legend Stevie Wonder said he's moving to Ghana.” Correct Attribution.
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Released album “Stevie Wonder, Vol. 1 (DJM re‐edits)”.
Released album “Tender Honey”.
Released album “Additional Singles & Rarities”.
Released album “Remixes”.
Released album “Mono Singles”.
Wonder announced that he would be undergoing a kidney transplant in September
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Released album “Emotional Security”.
Released album “The Complete Stevie Wonder”.
And his first tweet was a five-minute video honoring Martin Luther King Jr
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Released album “I’ve Changed My Mind a Second Time”.
Snopes rated the claim “Musician Stevie Wonder was killed in a car crash in December 2016” False.
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Won Presidential Medal of Freedom presented by Barack Obama (2014).
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Released album “Boy Genius”.
Presented at a ceremony in the White House on November 24 that year
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Released album “The Jazz Soul of Little Stevie + Tribute to Uncle Ray”.
Wonder revealed that he had been recording new material for two albums, When the World Began and Ten Billion Hearts, in collaboration with producer David Foster
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Released album “I Was Made to Love Her: The Collection”.
Released album “Icon”.
Awarded Commandeur des Arts et des Lettres (2010).
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Awarded Victory of honor (2010).
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Awarded Gershwin Prize (2009).
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Released album “Talking Book + Innervisions”.
Wonder was named a United Nations Messenger of Peace, and in 2014, he was honored with the Presidential Medal of Freedom
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At Etta James' funeral, in 2012, a month later at Whitney Houston's memorial service, and at the funeral of Aretha Franklin in 2018
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Released album “Best Of”.
Started the European leg of his Wonder Summer's Night Tour, the first time he had toured Europe in more than a decade
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Released album “Live at Last: A Wonder Summer’s Night”.
Released album “A Night of Wonder: Live in London”.
Released album “Number Ones”.
Starting in San Diego on August 23; this was his first U
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Wonder's mother Lula Mae Hardaway died in Los Angeles at the age of 76
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Wonder also recorded a duet with Tony Bennett, a rendition of "For Once in My Life", which earned them a Grammy Award for Best Pop Collaboration with Vocals
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The Obama Inaugural Celebration in 2009, and the opening ceremony of the 2011 Special Olympics World Summer Games in Athens, Greece
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Wonder staged a duet with Andrea Bocelli on the latter's album Amore, offering harmonica and additional vocals on "Canzoni Stonate"
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Released album “A Time to Love”.
American recording artist Kanye West said of his own work: "I'm not trying to compete with what's out there now
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Released album “20th Century Masters: The Millennium Collection: The Best of Stevie Wonder”.
Awarded Johnny Mercer Award (2004).
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On their "500 Greatest Songs of All Time" list, Rolling Stone included "Superstition" at number 74 (promoted to number 12 for the 2020 edition), "Living for the City" at number 104, "Higher Ground" at number 261 (promote
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Released album “20th Century Masters: The Christmas Collection: The Best of Stevie Wonder”.
Rolling Stone's "500 Greatest Albums of All Time" list included Innervisions at number 23, Songs in the Key of Life at number 56 (promoted to number 4 for the 2020 edition), Talking Book at number 90 (promoted to number
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Released album “Lost Treasures”.
Released album “The Definitive Collection”.
Released album “Spanish Ghetto Land”.
Released album “Classic Stevie Wonder: The Universal Masters Collection”.
Released album “I Giganti Jazz & Pop - Stevie Wonder”.
Wonder contributed two new songs to the soundtrack for Spike Lee's Bamboozled album ("Misrepresented People" and "Some Years Ago")
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Released album “Stevie Wonder: Early Classics”.
Released album “Millennium Edition”.
Released album “At the Close of a Century”.
Released album “Ballad Collection”.
Awarded MusiCares Person of the Year (1999).
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Released album “World Ballads Collection”.
Released album “At The Movies”.
With Babyface on "How Come, How Long", a song about domestic violence that was nominated for a Grammy Award; and played harmonica on Sting's 1999 "Brand New Day"
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Released album “Jobete Music Presents the Wonder of Stevie”.
Released album “Best Ballads”.
Released album “Song Review: A Greatest Hits Collection”.
Awarded Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award (1996).
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Released album “Natural Wonder”.
Released album “Conversation Peace”.
Released album “Wonderful: 20 Original Hot Hits”.
As co-chair of Panafest that year, he headlined a concert at the National Theatre in Accra, Ghana's capital city
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Wonder went to perform at Panafest, a new international festival of music held biennially in Ghana; it was during this trip that he composed many of the songs featured on Conversation Peace, and he would describe in a 19
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Released album “Greatest Hits, Volume 2”.
Released album “Jungle Fever”.
Released album “Star Collection”.
Released album “First Hits, Volume 2”.
Released album “First Hits, Volume 3”.
Participated in Whitney Houston's album I'm Your Baby Tonight, contributing the duet "We Didn't Know", which reached the top 20 of the Billboard R&B chart
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“We all have ability. The difference is how we use it.”
Awarded Rock and Roll Hall of Fame (1989).
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Released album “First Hits”.
Released album “Live USA”.
Released album “Солнце моей жизни = Sunshine of My Life”.
Released album “Characters”.
Wonder appeared on Michael Jackson's Bad album, on the duet "Just Good Friends"
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Released album “Essential Stevie Wonder”.
Released album “Down to Earth / I Was Made to Love Her”.
Released album “My Cherie Amour / Signed, Sealed and Delivered”.
Released album “For Once in My Life / Uptight”.
Awarded Academy Award for Best Original Song for I Just Called to Say I Love You (1985).
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Released album “In Square Circle”.
Released album “Greatest Hits”.
Released album “Love Songs: 20 Classic Hits”.
Released album “The Woman in Red”.
Scheduled an album to be entitled People Work, Human Play
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Wonder had a son named Mumtaz Morris with Melody McCulley
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Wonder performed the song "Stay Gold", the theme to Francis Ford Coppola's film adaptation of S
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Released album “The History of Rock, Volume Fourteen”.
Released album “Stevie Wonder’s Original Musiquarium I”.
Wonder released a retrospective of his 1970s work with Stevie Wonder's Original Musiquarium, which included four new songs: the ten-minute funk classic "Do I Do" (which featured Dizzy Gillespie), "That Girl" (one of the
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Wonder invited inventor Raymond Kurzweil to his Los Angeles recording studio, Wonderland, and asked if "we could use the extraordinarily flexible computer control methods on the beautiful sounds of acoustic instruments
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Released album “Hotter Than July”.
Released album “Stevie Wonder’s Journey Through the Secret Life of Plants”.
Wonder used Computer Music Inc
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Released album “Songs in the Key of Life”.
When Paul Simon won the Album of the Year Grammy for his Still Crazy After All These Years, he wryly noted: "I'd like to thank Stevie Wonder, who didn't make an album this year
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Was marked by his funky keyboard style, personal control of production, and use of integrated series of songs to make concept albums
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Wonder heard about the demonstration of the Kurzweil Reading Machine, the first multi-font reading machine for the blind, on The Today Show, and later became the user of the first production unit, beginning a long-term a
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Wonder performed at the historic "Wonder Dream Concert" in Kingston, Jamaica, a benefit for the Jamaican Institute for the Blind
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Played harmonica on two tracks on Billy Preston's album It's My Pleasure
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“she was the one thing that I needed in my life and in my music for a long time”
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With the Boston busing desegregation underway, Wonder spoke and led students in song at a lounge at the University of Massachusetts Boston the day after he performed at the Boston Garden
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Released album “Fulfillingness’ First Finale”.
For Innervisions and in 1975 for Fulfillingness' First Finale
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Released album “His Twenty Greatest Hits”.
Released album “Wonderland: 1962–1974”.
Released album “Looking Back”.
Three days after the release of Innervisions, Wonder was seriously injured in an automobile accident while on tour in North Carolina
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Released album “Innervisions”.
Released album “Talking Book”.
Released album “Music of My Mind”.
After which their musical collaboration continued (she sang on 1995's Conversation Peace)
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Wonder allowed his Motown contract to expire
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Released album “Where I’m Coming From”.
Released album “Signed, Sealed & Delivered”.
Released album “Live at Talk of the Town”.
Wonder co-wrote (and played numerous instruments on) the hit "It's a Shame" for fellow Motown act the Spinners
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Released album “Live”.
Released album “My Cherie Amour”.
Wonder participated in the Sanremo Music Festival in Italy with the song "Se tu ragazzo mio", in conjunction with Gabriella Ferri
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Released album “Eivets Rednow”.
Released album “For Once in My Life”.
Wonder recorded an album of instrumental soul/jazz tracks, mostly harmonica solos, under the title Eivets Rednow, which is "Stevie Wonder" spelled backward
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Released ep “For Once in My Life”.
Released album “Someday at Christmas”.
Released album “I Was Made to Love Her”.
Mostly unnoticed as the last track of their Make It Happen LP, but eventually became a major success when re-released as a single in 1970, which prompted Robinson to reconsider his intention of leaving the group)
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Released album “Down to Earth”.
Released album “Up‐Tight (Everything’s Alright)”.
Released album “Stevie at the Beach”.
Released album “Little Stevie Wonder 12 Year Old Genius”.
Released album “Tribute to Uncle Ray”.
Released album “With a Song in My Heart”.
Released album “The Jazz Soul of Little Stevie”.
His surname was legally changed to Morris, which (according to Lula Mae Hardaway's authorized biography) was an old family name
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At the age of 11, Wonder sang his own composition, "Lonely Boy", to Ronnie White of the Miracles; White then took Wonder and his mother to an audition at Motown, where CEO Berry Gordy signed Wonder to Motown's Tamla labe
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Born 1950-05-13.
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In Saginaw, Michigan, the third of five children born to Lula Mae Hardaway, and the second of Hardaway's two children with Calvin Judkins
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