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Stevie Wonder (b. Stevland Hardaway Judkins in May, 1950; name
later changed to Stevland Hardaway Morris), is an American singer, songwriter, and
record producer.
Stevie Wonder has recorded more than thirty Top 10 hits, won
twenty-two Grammy Awards (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. Opera star Luciano Pavarotti once
referred to him in a concert as a "great, great musical genius".
Blind from infancy, Wonder signed with Motown Records as an adolescent of age 11,
and continues to perform and record for the label to this day.
He has become one of the most successful and well-known artists in
the world, with nine U.S. number-one hits to his name and album sales totaling more
than 100 million units.
Stevie Wonder has recorded several critically acclaimed albums and
hit singles, and writes and produces songs for many of his labelmates and outside
artists as well.
A multi-instrumentalist, Wonder plays the drums, congas, bass
guitar, organ, harmonica, melodica, piano and synthesizer.
In his early career, he was best known for his harmonica work, but
today he is better known for his keyboard skills.
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