Stevland Hardaway Judkins, known in the world of music as Stevie Wonder, is a singer, producer, and composer of genres such as Soul, R & B, funk, and jazz. Despite being blind from birth, he is one of the most successful singers of his genre and the record label Motown.
He was born in Saginaw, the United States on May 13, 1950, and is the son of Calvin Judkins and Lula Mae Hardaway. Because of his premature birth, his eyes did not develop retinas, so he became blind for life. From an early age, he showed interest in music, participated in the choir of the church and learned to play the piano, drums, bass, and harmonica.
His first songs were recorded in the 60s, wherein 1963, he got his first success with the song Fingertips Part 2, which he recorded for the Motown Record Company, where he adopted his stage name.
In 1972, he met Johanan Vigoda, a lawyer who motivated Wonder to sign a musical contract, giving him creative freedom at that time within a company as strong as Motown was. In that same year, the singer recorded his first song titled “Music of my Mind” in which he took charge of the recording of almost all the instruments on the album, as well as doing musical production, composition and arranger activities. A few months later, he recorded the song “Superstition” which is considered his greatest musical success.
A year later, Stevie Wonder had a traffic accident, which caused him to be in a coma for a few days and completely lose his sense of smell. The problems were not an impediment for the singer since thanks to his excellent record work he won 14 Grammy awards between 1974 and 1977, where his albums Innervisions, Fullfillingness, first finale and Songs in the Key of Life were highlighted.
He began the decade of the 90s with the publication of his new album titled “Hotter Than July” where the song “Master Blaster” was highlighted, and which allowed Stevie to reach a wider audience. At that time, he made important collaborations in songs like “Ebony and Ivory” along with Paul McCartney, “Cannot Help Loving That Man Of Mine” with Barbra Streisand and “Just good friends” along with Michael Jackson, besides, he won the Grammy for “We are the world.”
In 1988, he released his hit “Musiquarium” and in 1984 he published “The woman in red” which was the soundtrack of the film with the same name. In addition, he published “In Square Circle” and “Characters.” In 1989, he was included in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.
After he published the soundtrack for the Spike Lee Jungle Fever movie in 1991, Stevie Wonder dedicated himself to charity work, and temporarily retired from the stage. He received the Grammy award for a lifetime and in 1996, he recorded “Conversation Peace” a new album with which he won two Grammy awards.
By 2003, the magazine Rolling Stone published a list with the 500 biggest discs of all the history, where they appeared 4 works of Stevie Wonder. In 2005, he launched “A Time to Love.” Months later, he was certified by the RIIA, for more than 10 million units sold of the album “Songs in the Key of Life” which was also chosen to be part of the Library of Congress (the Library of Congress).
On February 23, 2009, he was awarded the Gershwin Prize, for his contribution to music and the expansion of culture in general, this award was given by the Library of Congress of the United States. In March of that same year, he published his first official DVD entitled “Live at Last” which contained the concert given in October of the previous year in London.
For the year 2013, his song “Skeletons” was part of the second trailer of the game Grand Theft Auto V, which is also heard in the sounds of some episodes of it. A year later, at the Grammy Awards gala, he performed with Daft Punk, Pharrell Williams and Nile Rodgers performing the award-winning “Get Lucky.”
“Talent can take you to the top, but only the character can keep you there.” Stevie wonder
At the end of 2016, he released the song “Faith” with Ariana Grande and he was also part of the soundtrack of the movie Sing.
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