
Stevland Haraway Morris (ne Judkins) was born on the 13th of May 1950. He is known as Stevie Wonder and is considered as a pioneering musician, and has had an influencer on musicians of diverse genres, from rhythm and blues to jazz to gospel, soul and jazz. Wonder, who was a one-man band that used synthesizers for the creation of electronic music during the 1970s. The result was a revolution in the R&B genre. Wonder was also instrumental in the emergence of such genres during the album era. His LPs were consistent and cohesive and socially conscious statements that contained complex compositions. Wonder, who was born blind shortly after his birth, was signed on Motown's Tamla label when he was 11 years old. He was then given the professional title Little Stevie Wonder. Wonder's critical success culminated in the 1970s. The singer's "classic period" began in 1972 with the releases of Music of My Mind and Talking Book, the latter with "Superstition", which is one of the most distinctive and famous recordings of the sound of the Hohner Clavinet keyboard. The Grammy Award for Album of the Years was won by Innervisions (1973) and Fulfillingness's First Finale (1974), and Songs in the Key of Life (1976). He is tied for third place with the most Album of the YEAR wins. The only artist to have won the award three times in succession for his albums. Wonder was a "commercial artist" at the time that he began have his greatest hits in the 1980s. The popularity of his music grew due to increasing albums sales, charity involvement and prominent collaborations.
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