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GRAMMY award-winning Stevland Hardaway Morris, known professionally as Stevie Wonder, is an American singer-songwriter, who is credited as a pioneer and influence by musicians across a range of genres that include rhythm and blues, pop, soul, gospel, funk, and jazz.
A virtual one-man band, Wonder’s use of synthesizers and other electronic musical instruments during the 1970s reshaped the conventions of R&B. He also helped drive the genre into the album era, crafting his LPs as cohesive, consistent, socially conscious statements with complex compositions.
Blind since shortly after his birth, Wonder was a child prodigy who signed with Motown’s Tamla label at the age of 11, where he was given the professional name Little Stevie Wonder.
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Stevie Wonder‘s first album recorded live, “The 12-Year-Old Genius,” topped the Hot 100, R&B singles, and album charts in the US. By 1965, Stevie Wonder had become resentful of Motown’s stranglehold over his career. Efforts to renegotiate his career were constantly stonewalled.
Years later, Stevie performed a skit about his career crisis on the popular American show Saturday Night Live. In the skit, Wonder approached a record company executive with a request for artistic freedom. The executive replied, “Don’t get arty on me. Boy geniuses are a dime a dozen.”
Stevie Wonder had to push really hard to exercise creative freedom. In 1966, he succeeded in having his say through “Uptight,” the song that came to be identified as Stevie’s mainstay. Several successful albums followed. But it wasn’t until “Talking Book” in 1972 that Wonder finally managed to become independent of what Motown needed and demanded from him.
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With other artists, it is fashionable to say that the best is always ahead of them. In Stevie Wonder‘s case, this is the reality. “Songs in the Key of Life” in 1976 and “Hotter Than July” in 1980 are regarded by many Wonder-struck fans as his two best albums to date.
The latter album, dedicated to Martin Luther King, Jr., was accompanied by a campaign by the musician to make King’s birth date a national holiday. The American government complied in 1983. Wonder’s success story got bigger and brighter with each passing year.
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In 1984, Wonder crooned what came to be his most beloved love ballad, “I Just Called to Say I Love You” contained in the film “The Woman in Red.” It topped the UK chart for six weeks. It was Wonder’s first solo No. 1 hit in Britain and one of the ten largest-selling singles in the UK of all time.
Stevie Wonder has no match. In every decade since the 1960s, he has created tracks that have stood the test of time. The sixties had “Uptight.” The seventies spawned the enigmatic “Superstition.” The eighties shall be measured by Wonder’s “I Just Called to Say I Love You.” The nineties are processed by Wonder’s “Kiss Lonely Goodbye.”
His discography includes 23 studio albums, three soundtrack albums, four live albums, 11 compilations, one box set, and 91 singles.
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