Stevie Wonder

Stevie Wonder
Stevland Hardaway Morris (né Judkins; May 13, 1950), known

professionally as Stevie Wonder, is an American singer-songwriter. He is
Stevie Wonder
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 such
genres into the album era, crafting his LPs as cohesive and consistent, in
addition to 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.
Wonder's single "Fingertips" was a No. 1 hit on the Billboard Hot 100 in 1963,
at the age of 13, making him the youngest artist ever to top the chart. Wonder's
critical success was at its peak in the 1970s. His "classic period" began in 1972
with the releases of Music of My Mind and Talking Book, the latter featuring
"Superstition", which is one of the most distinctive and famous examples of the
sound of the Hohner Clavinet keyboard. His works Innervisions (1973),
Wonder in 1994
Fulfillingness' First Finale (1974) and Songs in the Key of Life (1976) all won
the Grammy Award for Album of the Year, making him the tied-record holder Born Stevland Hardaway
for the most Album of the Year wins, with three. He is also the only artist to Judkins
have won the award with three consecutive album releases. Wonder began his May 13, 1950
"commercial period" in the 1980s; he achieved his biggest hits and highest Saginaw, Michigan, U.S.
level of fame, had increased album sales, charity participation, high-profile
Other names Stevland Hardaway
collaborations (including Paul McCartney and Michael Jackson), political
impact, and television appearances. Wonder has continued to remain active in Morris
music and political causes. Little Stevie Wonder
Occupations Singer · songwriter ·
Wonder is one of the best-selling music artists of all time, with sales of over 100 musician · record
million records worldwide. He has won 25 Grammy Awards (the most by a
producer
solo artist) and one Academy Award (Best Original Song, for the 1984 film The
Woman in Red). Wonder has been inducted into the Rhythm and Blues Music Years active 1961–present
Hall of Fame, Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and Songwriters Hall of Fame. He Spouses Syreeta Wright
is also noted for his work as an activist for political causes, including his 1980
(m. 1970; div. 1972)
campaign to make Martin Luther King Jr.'s birthday a federal holiday in the
U.S. In 2009, he was named a United Nations Messenger of Peace, and in Kai Millard
2014, he was honored with the Presidential Medal of Freedom. (m. 2001; div. 2012)
Tomeeka Bracy (m. 2017)
Early life Children 9
Musical career
Wonder was born Stevland Hardaway Judkins in Saginaw, Michigan, on May
Genres Soul · R&B[1] · pop[2] ·
13, 1950, the third of five children born to Lula Mae Hardaway,[7] and the
funk[3] · gospel[4] · jazz[5] ·
second of Hardaway's two children with Calvin Judkins.[8] He was born six
weeks premature which, along with the oxygen-rich atmosphere in the hospital progressive soul[6]
incubator, resulted in retinopathy of prematurity, a condition in which the Instruments Vocals · keyboards ·
growth of the eyes is aborted and causes the retinas to detach, so he became harmonica · drums
blind.[9][10] Labels Tamla · Motown · So
What the Fuss Records
When Wonder was four, his mother divorced his father and moved with her Website steviewonder.net (http://st
three children to Detroit, Michigan, where Wonder sang as a child in a choir at eviewonder.net)
the Whitestone Baptist Church.[11] She later rekindled her relationship with her
Signature
first child's father (whose surname was also coincidentally Hardaway)[8] and
changed her own name back to Lula Hardaway, going on to have two more
children.
When Stevie was signed by Motown in 1961, his surname was legally changed
to Morris, which (according to Lula Mae Hardaway's authorized biography)
was an old family name. Berry Gordy was responsible for creating the stage
name of "Little Stevie Wonder".[12]
He began playing instruments at an early age, including piano, harmonica, and drums. He formed a singing partnership with
a friend; calling themselves Stevie and John, they played on street corners and occasionally at parties and dances.[13]
As a child, Wonder attended Fitzgerald Elementary School in Detroit.[14] After his first album was released, The Jazz Soul of
Little Stevie (1962), he enrolled in Michigan School for the Blind in Lansing, Michigan.[15][16]
Career
1961–1969: Singles as a youth
In 1961, at the age of 11, Wonder sang his own composition, "Lonely Boy", to Ronnie
White of the Miracles;[17][18] White then took Wonder and his mother to an audition at
Motown, where CEO Berry Gordy signed Wonder to Motown's Tamla label.[7] Before
signing, producer Clarence Paul gave him the name Little Stevie Wonder.[9] Because of
Wonder's age, the label drew up a rolling five-year contract in which royalties would be
held in trust until Wonder was 21. He and his mother would be paid a weekly stipend to
cover their expenses: Wonder received $2.50 (equivalent to $22.67 in 2021) per week, and
a private tutor was provided when Wonder was on tour.[18]
Wonder was put in the care of producer and songwriter Clarence Paul, and for a year they
worked together on two albums. Tribute to Uncle Ray was recorded first, when Wonder
was still 11 years old. Mainly covers of Ray Charles's songs, the album included a Wonder
and Paul composition, "Sunset". The Jazz Soul of Little Stevie was recorded next, an
instrumental album consisting mainly of Paul's compositions, two of which, "Wondering"
and "Session Number 112", were co-written with Wonder.[19] Feeling Wonder was now Wonder rehearsing for a
ready, a song, "Mother Thank You", was recorded for release as a single, but then pulled performance on Dutch
and replaced by the Berry Gordy song "I Call It Pretty Music, But the Old People Call It television in 1967
the Blues" as his début single; [20] released summer 1962, [21] it almost broke into the
Billboard 100, spending one week of August at 101.[22] Two follow-up singles, "Little
Water Boy" and "Contract on Love", both had no success, and the two albums, released in reverse order of recording—The
Jazz Soul of Little Stevie in September 1962 and Tribute to Uncle Ray in October 1962—also met with little success.[19][23]
At the end of 1962, when Wonder was 12 years old, he joined the Motortown Revue, touring
the "Chitlin' Circuit" of theatres across America that accepted black artists. At the Regal Most of these songs hit
Theater, Chicago, his 20-minute performance was recorded and released in May 1963 as the the charts in a big way
album Recorded Live: The 12 Year Old Genius.[19] A single, "Fingertips", from the album before Stevie turned
was also released in May, and became a major hit.[25] The song, featuring a confident and twenty-one [in 1971].
enthusiastic Wonder returning for a spontaneous encore that catches out the replacement bass Because he's grown up
player, who is heard to call out "What key? What key?",[25][26] was a No. 1 hit on the fast, the love lyrics are
Billboard Hot 100 when Wonder was aged 13, making him the youngest artist ever to top the less teen-specific than a
lot of early Smokey, say,
chart.[27] The single was simultaneously No. 1 on the R&B chart, the first time that had
but the music is pure
occurred.[28] His next few recordings, however, were not successful; his voice was changing
puberty. Stevie's rockers
as he got older, and some Motown executives were considering cancelling his recording
are always one step
contract.[28] During 1964, Wonder appeared in two films as himself, Muscle Beach Party
ahead of themselves—
and Bikini Beach, but these were not successful either.[29] Sylvia Moy persuaded label owner their gawky groove is so
Berry Gordy to give Wonder another chance.[28] disorienting it makes you
Dropping the "Little" from his name, Moy and Wonder worked together to create the hit pay attention, like a voice
"Uptight (Everything's Alright)",[28] and Wonder went on to have a number of other hits that's perpetually
during the mid-1960s, including "With a Child's Heart", and "Blowin' in the Wind",[26] a changing. The ballads
Bob Dylan song, co-sung by his mentor, producer Clarence Paul.[30] He also began to work conceive coming of age
in the Motown songwriting department, composing songs both for himself and his label more conventionally, and
mates, including "The Tears of a Clown", a No. 1 hit for Smokey Robinson and the Miracles less felicitously. But he
(it was first released in 1967, mostly unnoticed as the last track of their Make It Happen LP, sure covered Tony
but eventually became a major success when re-released as a single in 1970, which prompted Bennett better than the
Robinson to reconsider his intention of leaving the group).[31] Supremes or the Tempts
could have, now didn't
In 1968, he recorded an album of instrumental soul/jazz tracks, mostly harmonica solos, he?
under the title Eivets Rednow, which is "Stevie Wonder" spelled backward.[32] The album
failed to get much attention, and its only single, a cover of Burt Bacharach's and Hal David's
–Review of Stevie
"Alfie", only reached number 66 on the U.S. Pop charts and number 11 on the US Adult
Wonder's Greatest Hits
Contemporary charts. Nonetheless, he managed to score several hits between 1968 and 1970
Vol. 2 in Christgau's
such as "I Was Made to Love Her",[30] "For Once in My Life" and "Signed, Sealed,
Record Guide: Rock
Delivered I'm Yours". A number of Wonder's early hits, including "My Cherie Amour", "I Albums of the Seventies
Was Made to Love Her", and "Uptight (Everything's Alright)", were co-written with Henry
Cosby. The hit single "Signed, Sealed, Delivered I'm Yours" was his first-ever self-produced (1981)[24]
song.[33]
In 1969, Wonder participated in the Sanremo Music Festival with the song "Se tu ragazza mia", in conjunction with Gabriella
Ferri. Between 1967 and 1970, he recorded four 45 rpm singles[34][35][36][37] and an Italian LP.[38]
Wonder's appearance at the 1969 Harlem Cultural Festival opens the 2021 music documentary, Summer of Soul.[39] Wonder
plays a drum solo during his set.
1970–1979: Classic albums period
In September 1970, at the age of 20, Wonder married Syreeta Wright, a

songwriter and former Motown secretary. Wright and Wonder worked
together on the next album, Where I'm Coming From (1971), Wonder
writing the music, and Wright helping with the lyrics.[40] Around this
time, Wonder became interested in utilizing synthesizers after hearing
albums by electronic group Tonto's Expanding Head Band.[41] Wonder
and Wright wanted to "touch on the social problems of the world", and
for the lyrics "to mean something".[40] The album was released at
around the same time as Marvin Gaye's What's Going On. As both
albums had similar ambitions and themes, they have been compared; in a
contemporaneous review by Vince Aletti in Rolling Stone, Gaye's was
seen as successful, while Wonder's was seen as failing due to "self- The first prototype of the Oberheim 4-voice
indulgent and cluttered" production, "undistinguished" and "pretentious" synthesizer, as used by Wonder. The front panel
lyrics, and an overall lack of unity and flow.[42] Also in 1970, Wonder still shows the braille labeling.
co-wrote, and played numerous instruments on the hit "It's a Shame" for
fellow Motown act the Spinners. His contribution was meant to be a
showcase of his talent and thus a weapon in his ongoing negotiations with Gordy about creative autonomy.[43] Reaching his
21st birthday on May 13, 1971, Wonder allowed his Motown contract to expire.[44]
During this period, he independently recorded two albums and signed a new contract with Motown Records. The 120-page
contract was a precedent at Motown and gave Wonder a much higher royalty rate.[45] He returned to Motown in March 1972
with Music of My Mind. Unlike most previous albums on Motown, which usually consisted of a collection of singles, B-sides
and covers, Music of My Mind was a full-length artistic statement with songs flowing together thematically.[45] Wonder's
lyrics dealt with social, political, and mystical themes as well as standard romantic ones, while musically he began exploring
overdubbing and recording most of the instrumental parts himself.[45] Music of My Mind marked the beginning of a long
collaboration with Tonto's Expanding Head Band (Robert Margouleff and Malcolm Cecil),[46][47] and with lyricist Yvonne
Wright.[48]
Released in late 1972, Wonder's album Talking Book featured the No. 1 hit "Superstition",[49] which is one of the most
distinctive and famous examples of the sound of the Hohner Clavinet keyboard.[50] Talking Book also featured "You Are the
Sunshine of My Life", which also peaked at No. 1. During the same time as the album's release, Wonder began touring with
the Rolling Stones to alleviate the negative effects from pigeonholing as a result of being an R&B artist in America.[17]
Wonder's touring with the Stones was also a factor behind the success of both "Superstition" and "You Are the Sunshine of
My Life".[45][51] Between them, the two songs won three Grammy Awards.[52] On an episode of the children's television
show Sesame Street that aired in April 1973,[53] Wonder and his band performed "Superstition", as well as an original called
"Sesame Street Song", which demonstrated his abilities with television.
Innervisions, released in 1973, featured "Higher Ground" (No. 4 on the pop charts)
as well as the trenchant "Living for the City" (No. 8).[49] Both songs reached No. 1
on the R&B charts. Popular ballads such as "Golden Lady" and "All in Love Is Fair"
were also present, in a mixture of moods that nevertheless held together as a unified
whole.[54] Innervisions generated three more Grammy Awards, including Album of
the Year.[52] The album is ranked No. 34 on Rolling Stone's 500 Greatest Albums of
All Time.[55] Wonder had become the most influential and acclaimed black musician
of the early 1970s.[45]
On August 6, 1973, Wonder was injured in a serious automobile accident while on

tour in North Carolina, when a car in which he was riding hit the back of a
truck.[45][56] This left him in a coma for four days and resulted in a partial loss of his
sense of smell and a temporary loss of sense of taste.[57] Despite orders from his
Wonder performing in 1973, during
doctor to refrain from performing, Wonder performed at a homecoming benefit for
the early years of his "classic period"
Shaw University in Raleigh in November 1973.[58] Shaw was facing financial
difficulties, so Wonder, who was a member of the university's board of trustees,
rallied other acts such as Exuma, LaBelle, and the Chambers Brothers to join the
concert, which raised over $10,000 for the school's scholarship fund.[59]
Wonder embarked on a European tour in early 1974, performing at the Midem convention in Cannes, at the Rainbow Theatre
in London, and on the German television show Musikladen.[60] On his return from Europe, he played a sold-out concert at
Madison Square Garden in March 1974, highlighting both up-tempo material and long, building improvisations on mid-
tempo songs such as "Living for the City".[45] The album Fulfillingness' First Finale appeared in July 1974 and set two hits
high on the pop charts: the No. 1 "You Haven't Done Nothin'" and the Top Ten "Boogie on Reggae Woman". The Album of
the Year was again one of three Grammys won.[52]
The same year, Wonder took part in a Los Angeles jam session with ex-Beatles John Lennon and Paul McCartney, that
would become known as the bootleg album A Toot and a Snore in '74.[61][62] He also co-wrote and produced the 1974
Syreeta Wright album Stevie Wonder Presents: Syreeta.[63][64]
On October 4, 1975, Wonder performed at the historic "Wonder Dream Concert" in Kingston, Jamaica, a benefit for the
Jamaican Institute for the Blind.[65] In 1975, he played harmonica on two tracks on Billy Preston's album It's My Pleasure.
By 1975, at the age of 25, Wonder had won two consecutive Grammy Awards: in 1974 for Innervisions and in 1975 for
Fulfillingness' First Finale.[66] In 1976, 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."[67][68]
The double album-with-extra-EP, Songs in the Key of Life, was released in September 1976. Sprawling in style and
sometimes lyrically difficult to fathom, the album was hard for some listeners to assimilate, yet is regarded by many as
Wonder's crowning achievement and one of the most recognizable and accomplished albums in pop music history.[45][49][69]
The album became the first by an American artist to debut straight at No. 1 in the Billboard charts, where it stood for 14 non-
consecutive weeks.[70] Two tracks became No. 1 Pop/R&B hits: "I Wish" and "Sir Duke". The baby-celebratory "Isn't She
Lovely?" was written about his newborn daughter Aisha, while songs such as "Love's in Need of Love Today" and "Village
Ghetto Land" reflected a far more pensive mood. Songs in the Key of Life won Album of the Year and two other
Grammys.[52] The album ranks 4th on Rolling Stone's 500 Greatest Albums of All Time.[71]
Until 1979's Stevie Wonder's Journey Through "The Secret Life of Plants", his only further 1970s release was the
retrospective three-disc album Looking Back (1977), an anthology of his early Motown period.
1980–1990: Commercial albums period
The mainly instrumental soundtrack album Stevie Wonder's Journey Through "The Secret Life of Plants" (1979), was
composed using an early music sampler called a Computer Music Melodian.[72] It was also his first digital recording, and one
of the earliest popular albums to use the technology, which Wonder used for all subsequent recordings. Wonder toured briefly
with an orchestra in support of the album, and used a Fairlight CMI sampler onstage.[73] In this year Wonder also wrote and
produced the dance hit "Let's Get Serious", performed by Jermaine Jackson and ranked by Billboard as the No. 1 R&B
single of 1980.
Hotter than July (1980) became Wonder's first platinum-selling single album, and its single "Happy Birthday" was a
successful vehicle for his campaign to establish Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.'s birthday as a national holiday. The album also
included "Master Blaster (Jammin')", "I Ain't Gonna Stand for It", and the sentimental ballad, "Lately".
In 1982, 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 year's
biggest singles to chart on the R&B side), "Front Line", a narrative about a soldier in the Vietnam War that Wonder wrote
and sang in the first person, and "Ribbon in the Sky", one of his many classic compositions. He also gained a No. 1 hit that
year in collaboration with Paul McCartney in their paean to racial harmony, "Ebony and Ivory".
In 1983, Wonder performed the song "Stay Gold", the theme to Francis Ford Coppola's film adaptation of S. E. Hinton's
novel The Outsiders. Wonder wrote the lyrics. In 1983, he scheduled an album to be entitled People Work, Human Play. The
album never surfaced and instead 1984 saw the release of Wonder's soundtrack album for The Woman in Red. The lead
single, "I Just Called to Say I Love You", was a No. 1 pop and R&B hit in both the United States and the United Kingdom,
where it was placed 13th in the list of best-selling singles in the UK published in 2002. It went on to win an Academy award
for best song in 1985. Wonder accepted the award in the name of Nelson Mandela and was subsequently banned from all
South African radio by the Government of South Africa.[74]
Incidentally, on the occasion of his 35th birthday, Stevie Wonder was honored by the United Nations Special Committee
Against Apartheid for his stance against racism in South Africa that same year (1985).[75] The album also featured a guest
appearance by Dionne Warwick, singing the duet "It's You" with Stevie and a few songs of her own. Following the success
of the album and its lead single, Wonder made an appearance on The Cosby Show, in the episode "A Touch of Wonder",
where he demonstrated his ability to sample.
The following year's In Square Circle featured the No. 1 pop hit "Part-Time Lover". The album also has a Top 10 Hit with
"Go Home". It also featured the ballad "Overjoyed", which was originally written for Journey Through "The Secret Life of
Plants", but did not make the album. He performed "Overjoyed" on Saturday Night Live when he was the host. He was also
featured in Chaka Khan's cover of Prince's "I Feel For You", alongside Melle Mel, playing his signature harmonica. In
roughly the same period he was also featured on harmonica on Eurythmics' single, "There Must Be an Angel (Playing with
My Heart)" and Elton John's "I Guess That's Why They Call It the Blues".
Wonder was in a featured duet with Bruce Springsteen on the all-star charity single for African Famine Relief, "We Are the
World", and he was part of another charity single the following year (1986), the AIDS-inspired "That's What Friends Are
For". He played harmonica on the album Dreamland Express by John Denver in the song "If Ever", a song Wonder co-wrote
with Stephanie Andrews; wrote the track "I Do Love You" for the Beach Boys' 1985 self-titled album; and played harmonica
on "Can't Help Lovin' That Man" on The Broadway Album by Barbra Streisand.
In 1987, Wonder appeared on Michael Jackson's Bad album, on the duet "Just Good Friends". Jackson also sang a duet with
him entitled "Get It" on Wonder's 1987 album Characters. This was a minor hit single, as were "Skeletons" and "You Will
Know". Wonder played harmonica on a remake of his own song, "Have a Talk with God" (from Songs in the Key of Life in
1976), on Jon Gibson's album Body & Soul (1989).[76][77]
1991–1999: Jungle Fever and 1996 Olympics
In the 1990s, Wonder continued to release new material, but at a slower pace. He recorded a soundtrack album for Spike
Lee's film Jungle Fever in 1991. From this album, singles and videos were released for "Gotta Have You", "Fun Day" (remix
only), "These Three Words" and "Jungle Fever". The B-side to the "Gotta Have You" single was "Feeding Off The Love of
the Land", which was played during the end credits of the movie Jungle Fever but was not
included on the soundtrack. A piano and vocal version of "Feeding Off The Love of the
Land" was also released on the Nobody's Child: Romanian Angel Appeal compilation.
Conversation Peace and the live album Natural Wonder were released in the 1990s.[78]
In 1992, 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 1995 interview the powerful impact his
visit to that country had: "I'd only been there for 18 hours when I decided I'd eventually
move there permanently."[78][79] In 1994, as co-chair of Panafest that year,[80] he headlined
a concert at the National Theatre in Accra.[81]
Wonder backstage at the
Among his other activities, Wonder played harmonica on one track for the 1994 tribute 1990 Grammy Awards
album Kiss My Ass: Classic Kiss Regrooved;[82] sang at the 1996 Summer Olympics
closing ceremony;[83] collaborated in 1997 with Babyface on "How Come, How Long", a
song about domestic violence that was nominated for a Grammy award;[84] and played harmonica on Sting's 1999 "Brand
New Day".[85] In early 1999, Wonder performed in the Super Bowl XXXIII halftime show.[86]
In May 1999, Rutgers University presented Wonder with an honorary doctorate degree in fine arts.[87] In December 1999,
Wonder announced that he was interested in pursuing an intraocular retinal prosthesis to partially restore his sight.[88]
2000–present: Later career and collaborations
Into the 21st century, Wonder contributed two new songs to the soundtrack for Spike Lee's Bamboozled album
("Misrepresented People" and "Some Years Ago").[89] Wonder continues to record and perform; though mainly occasional
appearances and guest performances, he did do two tours, and released one album of new material, 2005's A Time to Love. In
June 2006, Wonder made a guest appearance on Busta Rhymes' album The Big Bang, on the track "Been through the
Storm". He sings the refrain and plays the piano on the Dr. Dre- and Sha Money XL–produced track. He appeared again on
the last track of Snoop Dogg's album Tha Blue Carpet Treatment, "Conversations". The song is a remake of "Have a Talk
with God" from Songs in the Key of Life. In 2006, Wonder staged a duet with Andrea Bocelli on the latter's album Amore,
offering harmonica and additional vocals on "Canzoni Stonate". Wonder also performed at Washington, D.C.'s 2006 "A
Capitol Fourth" celebration. His key appearances include performing at the opening ceremony of the 2002 Winter
Paralympics in Salt Lake City,[90] the 2005 Live 8 concert in Philadelphia,[91] the pre-game show for Super Bowl XL in
2006, the Obama Inaugural Celebration in 2009, and the opening ceremony of the 2011 Special Olympics World Summer
Games in Athens, Greece.[92]
Wonder's first new album in ten years, A Time to Love, was released in October
2005 to lower sales than previous albums, and lukewarm reviews—most
reviewers appearing frustrated at the end of the long delay to get an album that
mainly copied the style of Wonder's "classic period" without doing anything
new.[93] The first single, "So What the Fuss", was released in April. A second
single, "From the Bottom of My Heart", was a hit on adult-contemporary R&B
radio. The album also featured a duet with India Arie on the title track "A Time to
Love".
Wonder did a 13-date tour of North America in 2007, starting in San Diego on Wonder in 2006
August 23; this was his first U.S. tour in more than 10 years.[94] On September 8,
2008, he started the European leg of his Wonder Summer's Night Tour, the first
time he had toured Europe in over a decade. His opening show was at the National Indoor Arena in Birmingham in the
English Midlands. During the tour, he played eight UK gigs; four at the O2 Arena in London (filmed in HD and
subsequently released as a live-in-concert release on DVD and Blu-Ray, Live At Last[95]), two in Birmingham and two at the
M.E.N. Arena in Manchester.[96]
Wonder's other stop in the tour's European leg also found him performing in the Netherlands (Rotterdam), Sweden
(Stockholm), Germany (Cologne, Mannheim and Munich), Norway (Hamar), France (Paris), Italy (Milan) and Denmark
(Aalborg). Wonder also toured Australia (Perth, Adelaide, Melbourne, Sydney and Brisbane) and New Zealand
(Christchurch, Auckland and New Plymouth) in October and November.[96] His 2010 tour included a two-hour set at the
Bonnaroo Music Festival in Manchester, Tennessee, a stop at London's Hard Rock Calling in Hyde Park, and appearances at
England's Glastonbury Festival, Rotterdam's North Sea Jazz Festival, and a concert in Bergen, Norway, and a concert in
Dublin, Ireland, at the O2 Arena on June 24.[96]
Wonder's harmonica playing can be heard on the 2009 Grammy-nominated

"Never Give You Up", featuring CJ Hilton and Raphael Saadiq.[97]
Wonder sang at the Michael Jackson memorial service in 2009,[98] at Etta James'
funeral, in 2012,[99] a month later at Whitney Houston's memorial service,[100]
and at the funeral of Aretha Franklin in 2018.[101][102]
Wonder appeared on singer Celine Dion's studio album Loved Me Back to Life,
performing a cover of his 1985 song "Overjoyed".[103] The album was released
in October 2013. He was also featured on two tracks on Mark Ronson's 2015
album Uptown Special, and the track "Stop Trying to Be God" on Travis Scott's
2018 album Astroworld.[104] Barack Obama presenting Wonder with
the Gershwin Prize in 2009
In October 2020, Wonder announced that he had a new vanity label released via
Republic Records, So What the Fuss Records, marking the first time his music
was not released through Motown Records. The announcement was paired with the release of two singles: "Can't Put It in
the Hands of Fate", a "socially-conscious" funk track, and "Where Is Our Love Song", whose proceeds will go towards the
organization Feeding America.[105][106][107]
In June of 2021, Wonder appeared in the documentary Summer of Soul, directed by Ahmir "Questlove" Thompson, showing
the Harlem Cultural Festival of 1969. In never before seen footage, a young 19 year old Stevie Wonder is seen performing in
front of thousands of people in Harlem. Wonder's performance shown in the documentary included “It’s Your Thing” by The
Isley Brothers and a drum solo. Wonder talks about the turning point made in his career during this time and how this helped
him get out of being seen as just a child star.[108]
In October of 2022, Wonder celebrated his 50th anniversary of his project Talking Book. After 50 years the album is still
being recognized for its timeless hits such as the No. 1 hit "Superstition" and "You Are the Sunshine of My Life".[109]
Future projects
By June 2008, Wonder was working on two projects simultaneously: a new album called The Gospel Inspired by Lula,
which will deal with the various spiritual and cultural crises facing the world, and Through the Eyes of Wonder, an album he
has described as a performance piece that will reflect his experience as a blind man. Wonder was also keeping the door open
for a collaboration with Tony Bennett and Quincy Jones concerning a rumored jazz album.[110] If Wonder were to join forces
with Bennett, it would not be for the first time; their rendition of "For Once in My Life" earned them a Grammy for best pop
collaboration with vocals in 2006.[52]
In 2013, 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, to be released in 2014.[111] The albums have not seen release.
In October 2020, while promoting his two recent singles, Wonder mentioned both Through the Eyes of Wonder and The
Gospel Inspired by Lula as projects in development (the former as an album that may feature both singles, and the latter as a
future album he may record with his former label Motown).[112]
Legacy
Wonder is one of the most notable popular music figures of the second half of the 20th century. He is one of the most
successful songwriters and musicians.[113] Virtually a one-man band during his peak years, his use of synthesizers and further
electronic musical instruments during the 1970s helped expand the sound of R&B.[114] He is also credited as one of the
artists who helped drive R&B into the album era, by crafting his LPs as cohesive, consistent statements with complex
sounds.[114] His "classic period", which culminated in 1976, was marked by his funky keyboard style, personal control of
production, and use of integrated series of songs to make concept albums. In 1979, Wonder used Computer Music Inc.'s early
music sampler, the Melodian, on his soundtrack album Stevie Wonder's Journey Through "The Secret Life of Plants". This
was his first digital recording and one of the earliest popular albums to use the technology, which Wonder used for all
subsequent recordings.
He recorded several critically acclaimed albums and hit singles, and also wrote
and produced songs for many of his label mates and outside artists as well. In
his childhood, he was best known for his harmonica work, but today he is
better known for his keyboard skills and vocal ability. He also plays the piano,
synthesizer, harmonica, congas, drums, bongos, organ, melodica and Clavinet.
Wonder has been credited as a pioneer and influence to musicians of various
genres including pop, rhythm and blues, soul, funk and rock.[115]
Wonder's "classic period" is generally agreed to be between 1972 and

1976.[116][117][118] Some observers see aspects of 1971's Where I'm Coming
From as certain indications of the beginning of Wonder's "classic period", such Wonder receiving a standing ovation in the
East Room of the White House in 2011
as its new funky keyboard style that Wonder used throughout the classic
period.[118] Some determine Wonder's first "classic" album to be 1972's Music
of My Mind, on which he attained personal control of production, and on
which he programmed a series of songs integrated with one another to make a concept album.[118] Others skip over early
1972 and determine the beginning of the classic period to be in late 1972 with Talking Book,[119] the album on which
Wonder "hit his stride".[118]
Wonder's albums during his "classic period" were considered very

Let me put it this way: Wherever I go in the influential in the music world: the 1983 Rolling Stone Record Guide said
world, I always take a copy of Songs in the they "pioneered stylistic approaches that helped to determine the shape of
Key of Life. For me, it's the best album ever pop music for the next decade";[49] In 2005, American recording artist
made, and I'm always left in awe after I Kanye West said of his own work: "I'm not trying to compete with what's
listen to it. When people in decades and out there now. I'm really trying to compete with Innervisions and Songs in
centuries to come talk about the history of the Key of Life. It sounds musically blasphemous to say something like
music, they will talk about Louis that, but why not set that as your bar?"[121] Slate magazine's pop critic,
Armstrong, Duke Ellington, Ray Charles Jack Hamilton, said: "Most Americans follow up their 21st birthdays with
and Stevie Wonder [...] he [Wonder] a hangover; Stevie Wonder opted for arguably the greatest sustained run of
evolved into an amazing songwriter and a creativity in the history of popular music. Wonder's "classic period"—the
genuine musical force of nature. He's so polite phrase for when Stevie spent five years ferociously dunking on the
multitalented that it's hard to pinpoint entire history of popular music with the releases of Music of My Mind,
exactly what it is that makes him one of the Talking Book, Innervisions, Fulfillingness' First Finale, and Songs in the
greatest ever. But first, there's that voice. Key of Life [...] We've never heard anything like it since, and barring
Along with Ray Charles, he's the greatest another reincarnation, we never will again."[122]
R&B singer who ever lived.
Wonder has recorded more than 30 U.S. top-ten hits, including ten U.S.
number-one hits on the pop charts, well as 20 R&B number one hits. He
Elton John on Stevie Wonder.[120] has sold over 100 million records, 19.5 million of which are albums;[123]
he is one of the top 60 best-selling music artists with combined sales of
singles and albums.[124] Wonder was the first Motown artist and second
African-American musician to win an Academy Award for Best Original Song, which he won for his 1984 hit single "I Just
Called to Say I Love You" from the movie The Woman in Red. Wonder won 25 Grammy Awards[52] (the most ever won by
a solo artist), as well as a Lifetime Achievement Award. His albums of the "classic period", Innervisions (1973),
Fulfillingness' First Finale (1974) and Songs in the Key of Life (1976), all won the Grammy Award for Album of the Year,
making him the tied-record holder for the most Album of the Year wins, with three. He is also the only artist to have won the
award with three consecutive album releases. He has been inducted into the Rhythm and Blues Music Hall of Fame, Rock
and Rock Hall of Fame and Songwriters Hall of Fame, and has received a star on the Hollywood Walk of
Fame.[125][126][127] He has also been awarded the Polar Music Prize.[128] Rolling Stone named him the ninth greatest singer
and fifteenth greatest artist of all time.[129][130] In June 2009, he became the fourth artist to receive the Montreal Jazz Festival
Spirit Award.[131]
In 2003, Rolling Stone's "500 Greatest Albums of All Time" list included Innervisions at number 23,[132] Songs in the Key of
Life at number 56,[133] Talking Book at number 90,[134] and Music of My Mind at number 284.[135] In 2004, on their "500
Greatest Songs of All Time" list, Rolling Stone included "Superstition" at number 74, "Living for the City" at number 104,
"Higher Ground" at number 261, and "You Are the Sunshine of My Life" at number 281.[136]
Wonder is also noted for his work as an activist for political causes, including his 1980 campaign to make Martin Luther King
Jr.'s birthday a federal holiday in the United States.[137] On October 21, 1974, 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.[138]
Personal life
Marriages and children
Wonder has been married three times. He was married to Motown singer-songwriter and frequent collaborator Syreeta Wright
from 1970 until their amicable divorce in 1972. From 2001 until 2012 he was married to fashion designer Kai Millard.[139] In
October 2009, Wonder and Millard separated; Wonder filed for divorce in August 2012.[140] In 2017 he married Tomeeka
Bracy.[141]
Wonder has nine children with five women.[142] Wonder's first child's name is not publicly known. They were born to
Yolanda Simmons, whom Wonder met when she applied for a job as secretary for his publishing company.[143] Simmons
gave birth to Wonder's daughter Aisha Morris on February 2, 1975.[144][145] After Aisha was born, Wonder said "she was
the one thing that I needed in my life and in my music for a long time".[143] Aisha was the inspiration for Wonder's hit single
"Isn't She Lovely?" She is now a singer who has toured with her father and accompanied him on recordings, including his
2005 album A Time to Love. Wonder and Simmons also had a son, Keita, in 1977.[146]
In 1983, Wonder had a son named Mumtaz Morris with Melody McCulley.[147][148] Wonder also has a daughter, Sophia,
and a son, Kwame, with a woman whose identity has not been publicly disclosed.[146] Wonder has two sons with second
wife Kai Millard Morris. The elder is named Kailand, and he occasionally performs as a drummer on stage with his father.
The younger son, Mandla Kadjay Carl Stevland Morris, was born on May 13, 2005 (his father's 55th birthday).[139]
Wonder's ninth child, his second with Tomeeka Robyn Bracy, was born in December 2014, amid rumors that he would be
the father to triplets.[149] This turned out not to be the case, and the couple's new daughter was given the name Nia,[150]
meaning "purpose" (one of the seven principles of Kwanzaa).[149]
Family and health
On May 31, 2006, Wonder's mother Lula Mae Hardaway died in Los Angeles at the age of 76.[151] During his September 8,
2008, UK concert in Birmingham, he spoke of his decision to begin touring again following his loss: "I want to take all the
pain that I feel and celebrate and turn it around."[152]
At a concert in London's Hyde Park on July 6, 2019, Wonder announced that he would be undergoing a kidney transplant in
September.[1]
Religion and politics
Wonder was introduced to Transcendental Meditation through his marriage to Syreeta Wright.[153] Consistent with that
spiritual vision, Wonder became vegetarian, and later a vegan, singing about it in October 2015 on The Late Late Show with
James Corden during the show's "Carpool Karaoke" segment.[154][155][156]
Wonder joined Twitter on April 4, 2018, and his first tweet was a five-minute video honoring Martin Luther King Jr. Dozens
of famous personalities were rounded up in the video, which was titled "The Dream Still Lives". Each person involved
shared their dream, calling back to King's popular speech in 1963. Wonder's first tweet took the Internet by storm, and he also
encouraged viewers to share their own videos about their dreams with the hashtag #DreamStillLives.[157]
Wonder has been a longtime Baptist affiliated with black churches.[158][159][160]

On August 31, 2018, Wonder performed at the funeral of Aretha Franklin at Detroit's Greater Grace Temple. He closed the
ceremony with a rendition of the Lord's Prayer and his song "As".[161]
Awards and recognition
Grammy Awards
Wonder has won 25 Grammy Awards,[52] as well as a Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award in 1996.[162] He is one of only
four artists and groups who have won the Grammy for Album of the Year three times as the main credited artist, along with
Frank Sinatra, Paul Simon, and Taylor Swift. Wonder is the only artist to have won the award with three consecutive album
releases.
Grammy Awards
Year Award Title
1973 Best Rhythm & Blues Song "Superstition"
1973 Best R&B Vocal Performance, Male "Superstition"

1973 Best Pop Vocal Performance, Male "You are the Sunshine of My Life"
1973 Album of the Year Innervisions
1974 Best Rhythm & Blues Song "Living for the City"
1974 Best Male R&B Vocal Performance "Boogie on Reggae Woman"
1974 Best Male Pop Vocal Performance Fulfillingness' First Finale
1974 Album of the Year Fulfillingness' First Finale

1976 Best Male R&B Vocal Performance "I Wish"
1976 Best Male Pop Vocal Performance Songs in the Key of Life[163]
1976 Best Producer of the Year* N/A
1976 Album of the Year Songs in the Key of Life

1985 Best Male R&B Vocal Performance In Square Circle
Best Pop Performance by a Duo Or Group With Vocal

1986 "That's What Friends Are For"
(awarded to Dionne Warwick, Elton John, Gladys Knight, and Wonder)
1995 Best Rhythm & Blues Song "For Your Love"

1995 Best Male R&B Vocal Performance "For Your Love"
Best Instrumental Arrangement Accompanying Vocal(s)

1998 "St. Louis Blues"
(awarded to Herbie Hancock, Robert Sadin, and Wonder)
1998 Best Male R&B Vocal Performance "St. Louis Blues"

Best R&B Performance by a Duo Or Group With Vocals
2002 "Love's in Need of Love Today"
(awarded to Wonder and Take 6)
2005 Best Male Pop Vocal Performance "From the Bottom of My Heart"
Best R&B Performance by a Duo Or Group With Vocals

2005 "So Amazing"
(awarded to Beyoncé and Wonder)
2006 Best Pop Collaboration With Vocals (awarded to Tony Bennett and Wonder) "For Once in My Life"
From 1965 to 1980 a self-produced artist received one Grammy Award as an artist and an additional one as a producer in the Record of the
Year and Album of the Year categories
Year Nominee / work Award Result
Best Rhythm & Blues Recording Nominated

1967 "Uptight" Best Rhythm & Blues Solo Vocal Performance, Male or
Nominated
Female
1969 "For Once in My Life" Best Rhythm & Blues Vocal Performance, Male Nominated
Best Rhythm & Blues Song Nominated

1971 "Signed, Sealed, Delivered I'm Yours"
Nominated
1972 "We Can Work It Out" Best R&B Vocal Performance, Male Nominated
Won
"Superstition"
Best Rhythm & Blues Song Won
Best Pop Vocal Performance, Male Won
1974
"You Are the Sunshine of My Life" Record of the Year Nominated
Song of the Year Nominated

Innervisions Won
Album of the Year
Won
Fulfillingness' First Finale
"Boogie On Reggae Woman" Best R&B Vocal Performance, Male Won
1975
"Living for the City" Won
Best Rhythm & Blues Song
"Tell Me Something Good" Nominated
Nominated
Stevie Wonder Best Producer of the Year
Won
Best Pop Instrumental Performance Nominated
"Contusion"
Best Instrumental Composition Nominated
1977 "Have A Talk With God" Best Inspirational Performance Nominated

Album of the Year Won
Songs in the Key of Life
"I Wish" Won

Best R&B Vocal Performance, Male
"Master Blaster (Jammin')" Nominated
Stevie Wonder's Journey Through The Secret Best Album of Original Score Written for a Motion Picture or a
Nominated
1981 Life Of Plants Television Special
Stevie Wonder Producer of the Year (Non-Classical) Nominated

"Let's Get Serious" Nominated
"That Girl" Best Rhythm & Blues Song Nominated
Nominated
"Do I Do" Best R&B Vocal Performance, Male Nominated
1983 Best Instrumental Arrangement Accompanying Vocal(s) Nominated
Record of the Year Nominated

"Ebony and Ivory"
Best Pop Performance by a Duo or Group with Vocal Nominated
"What's That You're Doing" Best R&B Performance by a Duo or Group with Vocal Nominated
Song of the Year Nominated

"I Just Called to Say I Love You"
Best Pop Vocal Performance, Male Nominated
1985 "I Just Called to Say I Love You
Best Pop Instrumental Performance Nominated
(Instrumental)"
The Woman In Red Best R&B Vocal Performance, Male Nominated

In Square Circle Won
1986
"Part-Time Lover" Best Pop Vocal Performance, Male Nominated
Best Pop Performance by a Duo or Group with Vocal Won

1987 "That's What Friends Are For"
Record of the Year Nominated
Best Rhythm & Blues Song Nominated
1988 "Skeletons"
Nominated
1989 Characters Best R&B Vocal Performance, Male Nominated

Nominated
"Gotta Have You"
1992 Best Song Written Specifically for a Motion Picture or for Nominated
"Jungle Fever" Television Nominated

Best Male R&B Vocal Performance Won
1996 "For Your Love"
Best Rhythm & Blues Song Won
"Kiss Lonely Goodbye (Harmonica with

1997 Best Pop Instrumental Performance Nominated
Orchestra)"
Best Short Form Music Video Nominated
1998 "How Come, How Long"
Nominated
Best Pop Collaboration with Vocals
"How Come, How Long" (Live) Nominated
1999 Best Male R&B Vocal Performance Won
"St. Louis Blues"
Best Instrumental Arrangement Accompanying Vocal(s) Won
"Love's In Need Of Love Today" Best R&B Performance by a Duo or Group with Vocal Won
2003
"Christmas Song" Nominated
2005 "Moon River" Best Pop Collaboration with Vocals Nominated
"A Time To Love" Nominated

A Time To Love Best R&B Album Nominated
"So What the Fuss" Best Male R&B Vocal Performance Nominated
2006
"How Will I Know" Nominated
Best R&B Performance by a Duo or Group with Vocals
"So Amazing" Won
"From The Bottom Of My Heart" Best Male Pop Vocal Performance Won
2007 "For Once in My Life" Best Pop Collaboration with Vocals Won
2009 "Never Give You Up" Best R&B Performance by a Duo or Group with Vocals Nominated
2010 "All About the Love Again" Best Male Pop Vocal Performance Nominated
Other awards and recognition
Wonder has been given a range of awards, both for his music and for his civil rights work, including a Lifetime Achievement
Award from the National Civil Rights Museum, being named one of the United Nations Messengers of Peace, and earning a
Presidential Medal of Freedom from President Barack Obama in 2014, presented at a ceremony in the White House on
November 24 that year.[164][165]
In December 2016, the City of Detroit recognized Wonder's legacy by renaming a portion of his childhood street, Milwaukee
Avenue West, between Woodward Avenue and Brush Street, as "Stevie Wonder Avenue". He was also awarded an honorary
key to the city, presented by Mayor Mike Duggan.[166]
Awards and recognition
1983: inducted to the Songwriters Hall of Fame.[127]

1984: received an Academy Award for Best Song for "I Just Called to Say I Love You" from the movie The Woman in Red.[167]
1989: inducted to the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.[126]
1994: Star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.[168]
1999: received the Polar Music Prize[128] and Kennedy Center Honors.[169]
2002: received the George and Ira Gershwin Lifetime Achievement Award at UCLA's Spring Sing.[170] The same year, Wonder
received the Sammy Cahn Lifetime Achievement Award from the Songwriters Hall of Fame.[171]
2004: received the Billboard Century Award.[172] Also in 2004, Rolling Stone ranked him No. 15 on their list of the 100 Greatest
Rock and Roll Artists of All Time (https://www.rollingstone.com/news/story/5939214/the_immortals_the_first_fifty/).[173]
2006: was inducted, as one of the first inductees, into the Michigan Walk of Fame.[174]
2006: Recipient of a Lifetime Achievement Award from the National Civil Rights Museum in Memphis.[175]
2008: Ranked at number five on "The Billboard Hot 100 Top All-Time Artists", making him as the third most successful male artist
in the history of Billboard Hot 100 chart.[176]
February 23, 2009: Recipient of the Library of Congress's second Gershwin Prize For Popular Song, honored by US President
Barack Obama at the White House.[177][178]
2009: Recipient of the Montreal Jazz Festival Spirit Award.[131] This special award underlines a popular artist's extraordinary
contribution to the musical world. The Montreal Jazz Festival Spirit Award is in bronze.
2009: Named a Messenger of Peace by the United Nations.[179]
March 6, 2010: Appointed a Commander of the Order of Arts and Letters by French Culture Minister Frédéric Mitterrand. Wonder
had been due to be invested with this honor in 1981, but scheduling problems prevented this from happening. A lifetime
achievement award was also given to Wonder on the same day, at France's biggest music awards.[180]
June 2011: the Apollo Theater inducted Wonder into the Apollo Legends Hall of Fame.[181][182]
2012: Recipient of the Billboard Icon Award.[183]
2013: Received the Music Makes One Global Ambassador Award from the outstanding music award ceremony of Asia and the
World, Mnet Asian Music Awards.[184]
2014: Recipient of the Presidential Medal of Freedom.[185]
2014: Recipient of ASCAP Centennial Award.[186]
2021: Founding inductee of the Black Music and Entertainment Walk of Fame.[187]
2022: Recipient of the inaugural Icon Award from the Legal Defense Fund.[188][189][190]
Honorary degrees
Stevie Wonder has received many honorary degrees in recognition of his music career. These include:
State Date School Degree
Washington, D. C. May 14, 1978 Howard University Doctor of Humane Letters (DHL)[191]
Providence, RI 1987 Brown University Doctor of Music (DHL)[192]
Alabama June 2, 1996 University of Alabama at Birmingham Doctor of Music (D.Mus.)[193]
New Jersey May 19, 1999 Rutgers University Doctor of Fine Arts (D.F.A.)[194]
Ohio April 30, 2010 Oberlin College Doctor of Music (D. Mus.)[195]
Louisiana May 12, 2011 Tulane University Doctor of Fine Arts (D.F.A.)[196]
Connecticut May 22, 2017 Yale University Doctor of Music (D.Mus.)[197]
Michigan May 7, 2022 Wayne State University Doctor of Humane Letters (DHL)[198][199]
Discography
The Jazz Soul of Little Stevie (1962)
Tribute to Uncle Ray (1962)
With a Song in My Heart (1963)
Stevie at the Beach (1964)
Up-Tight (1966)
Down to Earth (1966)
I Was Made to Love Her (1967)
Someday at Christmas (1967)
Eivets Rednow (1968)
For Once in My Life (1968)
My Cherie Amour (1969)
Signed, Sealed & Delivered (1970)
Where I'm Coming From (1971)
Music of My Mind (1972)
Talking Book (1972)
Innervisions (1973)
Fulfillingness' First Finale (1974)
Songs in the Key of Life (1976)
Stevie Wonder's Journey Through "The Secret Life of Plants" (1979, soundtrack)
Hotter than July (1980)
The Woman in Red (1984, soundtrack)
In Square Circle (1985)
Characters (1987)
Jungle Fever (1991, soundtrack)
Conversation Peace (1995)
A Time to Love (2005)
See also
List of Billboard Hot 100 chart achievements and milestones
List of artists who reached number one on the Hot 100 (U.S.)
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External links
Official website (http://www.steviewonder.net)
Stevie Wonder (https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0005567/) at IMDb
Stevie Wonder (http://topics.nytimes.com/top/reference/timestopics/people/w/stevie_wonder/index.html)
collected news and commentary at The New York Times
Appearances (https://www.c-span.org/person/?10464) on C-SPAN
Stevie Wonder Interview (http://www.namm.org/library/oral-history/stevie-wonder) NAMM Oral History Library
(2016)
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Stevie Wonder

Stevland Hardaway Morris (né Judkins; May 13, 1950), known

1961–1969: Singles as a youth

1970–1979: Classic albums period

In September 1970, at the age of 20, Wonder married Syreeta Wright, a

On August 6, 1973, Wonder was injured in a serious automobile accident while on

1980–1990: Commercial albums period

1991–1999: Jungle Fever and 1996 Olympics

2000–present: Later career and collaborations

Wonder's harmonica playing can be heard on the 2009 Grammy-nominated

Wonder's "classic period" is generally agreed to be between 1972 and

Wonder's albums during his "classic period" were considered very

Marriages and children

Family and health

Religion and politics

Wonder has been a longtime Baptist affiliated with black churches.[158][159][160]

Awards and recognition

1973 Best Rhythm & Blues Song "Superstition"

1973 Best R&B Vocal Performance, Male "Superstition"

1973 Album of the Year Innervisions

1974 Best Male Pop Vocal Performance Fulfillingness' First Finale

1974 Album of the Year Fulfillingness' First Finale

1976 Best Producer of the Year* N/A

1976 Album of the Year Songs in the Key of Life

Best Pop Performance by a Duo Or Group With Vocal

1995 Best Rhythm & Blues Song "For Your Love"

Best Instrumental Arrangement Accompanying Vocal(s)

1998 Best Male R&B Vocal Performance "St. Louis Blues"

Best R&B Performance by a Duo Or Group With Vocals

Best Rhythm & Blues Recording Nominated

Best Rhythm & Blues Song Nominated

Song of the Year Nominated

1977 "Have A Talk With God" Best Inspirational Performance Nominated

"I Wish" Won

Stevie Wonder Producer of the Year (Non-Classical) Nominated

"That Girl" Best Rhythm & Blues Song Nominated

1983 Best Instrumental Arrangement Accompanying Vocal(s) Nominated

Record of the Year Nominated

Song of the Year Nominated

The Woman In Red Best R&B Vocal Performance, Male Nominated

Best Pop Performance by a Duo or Group with Vocal Won

1989 Characters Best R&B Vocal Performance, Male Nominated

"Jungle Fever" Television Nominated

"Kiss Lonely Goodbye (Harmonica with

2005 "Moon River" Best Pop Collaboration with Vocals Nominated

"A Time To Love" Nominated

Other awards and recognition

1983: inducted to the Songwriters Hall of Fame.[127]

State Date School Degree

Providence, RI 1987 Brown University Doctor of Music (DHL)[192]

Alabama June 2, 1996 University of Alabama at Birmingham Doctor of Music (D.Mus.)[193]

Connecticut May 22, 2017 Yale University Doctor of Music (D.Mus.)[197]

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