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STEVIE WONDER

Stevie Wonder is an American singer, songwriter, musician, record producer, pioneer and music legend, who was born Stevland Hardaway Morris nee Judkins on May 13, 1950 in Saginaw, Michigan. Stevie Wonder was born six weeks premature, and became blind after too much oxygen was pumped into his incubator. When Stevie Wonder was four, his mother divorced and they moved to Detroit, Michigan where Stevie joined a choir and began playing various instruments at a young age, entertaining the neighbourhood as part of a duo with his chum John in the duo Stevie and John.

Attending an audition for Motown in 1961, Stevie was signed to the Tamla label at the age of 11, recording his first album billed as Little Stevie Wonder, and his initial releases didn’t do much at all until he joined the Motown Motortown Revue package tour a year later. A live recording of his set proved to be a huge success and featured his first major hit song Fingertips which became a Billboard Number 1 in 1963.

Stevie Wonder’s career has seen him become one of the most successful singer-songwriters in the history of music, and an iconic figure and influence on endless musicians. Selling well in excess of 100 million albums worldwide, yet he has only scored two UK Number 1 singles; in duet with Paul McCartney on Ebony & Ivory in 1982, and solo on 1984’s I Just Called To Say I Love You.

He is also the only artist to have won the Grammy Album of the Year award with three consecutive album releases (Innervisions (1973), Fulfillingness' First Finale (1974) and Songs in the Key of Life (1976)).

Stevie Wonder is also an activist for peace in his spare time, with his 1980 campaign to make Martin Luther King Jr.'s birthday a holiday in the US, and he’s been named both a United Nations Messenger of Peace and awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom. Stevie Wonder's song Superstition was declared as Motown’s biggest song of the millennium in 2019, with 1.1 million charts sales, made up of 460,000 downloads and 65 million audio streams.

STEVIE WONDER Songs stats

UK No1s
2
UK Top 10s
18
UK Top 40s
39
UK Top 75s
56
Weeks at No1
9
Weeks in the Top 10
82
Weeks in the Top 40
292
Weeks in the Top 75
419

STEVIE WONDER Albums stats

UK No1s
0
UK Top 10s
9
UK Top 40s
20
UK Top 75s
21
Weeks at No1
0
Weeks in the Top 10
57
Weeks in the Top 40
266
Weeks in the Top 75
463

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addickted2hcharlton

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Isn't she lovely one of is best known songs but only got to 94, shockin juss shockin.

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David AC

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It wasn't released as a commercial single in the UK, or in most places. It's chart position in 2012 is down to downloads.

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Henry Horgan

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Why isn't his duet with Julio Iglesias My Love not shown here?

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Melisalove

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Find all albums here https://tinyurl.com/Stevie-Wonder