Stevie Wonder

Stevie Wonder's biography

Stevie Wonder is 72 years old singer-songwriter born at Saginaw. He was born on Saturday 13th of May 1950. He is often nicknamed as "Little Stevie" Wonder. According to year of birth 1950 he belongs to Boomers. Birthday on 13th of May means he is Taurus. Taurus is most stable sign of Zodiac, that is the reason it is also included in the earthy sign of the Zodiac Belt. One born with this Moon Sign (Not a Rising Sign) is very stable and balanced through their mind.

He is citizen of United States of America. His primary profession is to be singer-songwriter. You can know him also as record producer, singer, pianist, composer, recording artist, poet, vocalist, music arranger. He is recently known as drummer.

Stevie Wonder's mom

Stevie Wonder's mother's name is Lula Mae Hardaway. She is known as songwriter. His mother was born on Saturday 11th of January 1930 in Eufaula. Stevie Wonder was born when she was 20 years old. His mother died on Wednesday 31st of May 2006 in Los Angeles. Lula Mae Hardaway was 56 years old, when this happened.

Stevie Wonder's family

Stevie Wonder's ex spouse

Syreeta Wright

Stevie Wonder and Syreeta Wright have been together since 1970 for 2 years. She is known as songwriter. His ex spouse was born on Thursday 28th of February 1946 in Pittsburgh. His ex spouse died on Tuesday 6th of July 2004 in Los Angeles. Syreeta Wright was 54 years old, when this happened.

He has 1 son and 1 daughter

Stevie Wonder's son: Keita Morris

Stevie Wonder's son's name is Keita Morris. He is known as musician. His son was born on Wednesday 13th of April 1977 in Detroit.

Stevie Wonder's daughter: Aisha Morris

Stevie Wonder's daughter's name is Aisha Morris. She is known as singer-songwriter. His daughter was born on Sunday 2nd of February 1975 in Detroit.

Stevie Wonder's schools

We found 1 school He attended. Name of the school: Michigan School for the Blind.

Stevie Wonder's career

His main focus is to be singer-songwriter. Maybe you are curious what instrument does he play ? He plays piano.

Awards and competitions

Stevie Wonder's Awards

• Awarded the Polar Music Prize, the Royal Swedish Academy of Music Award (1999).
• Has won 21 Grammy Awards (a record for most Grammy Awards).
• In his acceptance speech for the Academy Award for Best Song in 1984, Wonder dedicated his award to imprisoned civil rights leader Nelson Mandela. The South African government promptly banned Wonder's music from the country.
• Became the very first blind recipient of an Academy Award when his composition "I Just Called to Say I Love You" won Best Original Song from The Woman in Red (1984) soundtrack.
• He was awarded a Star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame for Recording at 7050 Hollywood Boulevard in Hollywood, California on February 1, 1994.
• Awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom by President Barack Obama on 24 November 2014.
• First African-American artist to win the Grammy Award for "Album of the Year" for "Innervisions" (1973). The trophy was presented by Telly Savalas and Cher (Hollywood Palladium / 2 March 1974).
• He was the first Motown artist and second African-American musician to win an Academy Award for Best Original Song, for The Woman in Red (1984).
• He is also the only artist to have won the Grammy Award for Album of the Year with three consecutive album releases.
• He is among a handful of recording artists to have won the Grammy Award for Album of the Year three times. Others include Frank Sinatra, Paul Simon and Taylor Swift.

What Stevie Wonder has done for a first time

• He has seven children. The last of these, Mandla Kadjaly Carl Stevland Morris, was born May 13, 2005. He was born on his 55th birthday and is his and Kai's first child. Mandla means "Powerful/Defiant" in Zulu. Kadjaly is Swahili for "Born from God".
• Shortly after reaching his 21st birthday in the spring of 1971, he became the first Motown Recording artist to gain complete artistic control of his records.
• Became the very first blind recipient of an Academy Award when his composition "I Just Called to Say I Love You" won Best Original Song from The Woman in Red (1984) soundtrack.
• First African-American artist to win the Grammy Award for "Album of the Year" for "Innervisions" (1973). The trophy was presented by Telly Savalas and Cher (Hollywood Palladium / 2 March 1974).
• He was the first Motown artist and second African-American musician to win an Academy Award for Best Original Song, for The Woman in Red (1984).

Stevie Wonder's Donations

• Joined friends Dionne Warwick, Gladys Knight and Elton John on the 1986 chart-topper "That's What Friends Are For", the proceeds of which were donated to AIDS research. Also played harmonica on the recording.

Stevie Wonder's quotes

• Just because a man lacks the use of his eyes doesn't mean he lacks vision.
• Before I ride with somebody who's been drinking, I'll drive myself.
• I just dig audiences. That to me is the most worthwhile thing about this whole business. Just people coming to have a good time and letting me sing for them.
• I do believe in women. I really do.
• I am not a normal man.
• I am all for stem cell research.
• For the most part, I feel really comfortable with what I've given to the people. I want to give it to them again.
• First of all, I'm no better than the next person.
• Blind don't mean you can't, you know, listen.
• Time is long but life is short.
• Eyes lie if you ever look into them for the character of the person.
• Clearly, love is love, between a man and a woman, a woman and a man, a woman and a woman and a man and a man.
• What I'm not confused about is the world needing much more love, no hate, no prejudice, no bigotry and more unity, peace and understanding. Period.
• I am what I am. I love me! And I don't mean that egotistically - I love that God has allowed me to take whatever it was that I had and to make something out of it.
• Life has meaning only in the struggle. Triumph or defeat is in the hands of the Gods. So let us celebrate the struggle!
• Ya gots to work with what you gots to work with.
• Minds ripen at very different ages.
• Do you know, it's funny, but I never thought of being blind as a disadvantage, and I never thought of being black as a disadvantage.
• God gave me life to continue to do things that I would never have done.
• Ability may get you to the top, but it takes character to keep you there.
• Music, at its essence, is what gives us memories. And the longer a song has existed in our lives, the more memories we have of it.
• You can't base your life on other people's expectations.
• Mama was my greatest teacher, a teacher of compassion, love and fearlessness. If love is sweet as a flower, then my mother is that sweet flower of love.
• This is like one thing that I've tried to do, and I think successfully, that when you realize that nothing really belongs to you, you begin to appreciate having an understanding of just where your head is at, and you feel so much better.
• You know, I have seven children, so I guess I know some things about life.
• The right to bear arms? What about the right to live?
• Sometimes I wish I could drive a car, but I'm gonna drive a car one day, so I don't worry about that.
• Some people have a desire to be with the same sex. But that's them.
• People can misconstrue closeness for love.
• Of course I read Braille, yes.
• No one has been a greater advocate for the power of love in this world than I; both in my life and in my music.
• My father really was not the dominant person who raised the family, it was my mother who raised the family.
• Let us come together before we're annihilated.
• I've had threats.
• I've had some incredibly triumphal things happen in my life.
• I'm still experimenting.
• I am all for anything that is going to better equip a person who is physically challenged in any way, to have an opportunity to be able to do what they are able to do.
• Sometimes, I feel I am really blessed to be blind because I probably would not last a minute if I were able to see things.
• My mother had a rule, obviously, that I couldn't go across the street by myself, but I had to find a way of doing it.
• If you don't ask, you don't get.
• I think honestly, some people who think they're gay, they're confused.
• I'm concerned about how accessible guns are.
• I want to take all the pain that I feel and celebrate and turn it around.
• I might do something in Arabic. I might do something in Hebrew.
• I know there are thousands of images of me.
• I guess people expect or figure me to be a lot of different things.
• Until the 'Stand Your Ground' law is abolished in Florida, I will never perform there again.
• There's no way we can find peace with the ego.
• We needed Michael here on Earth, but God needed him more.
• Anyone who believes that there is no such thing as global warming must be blind or unintelligent
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