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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, when he was 13, making him the youngest solo artist ever to top the chart.
Stevie Wonder in 1994. One of the highlights of Detroit's musical history was the success of Motown Records during the 1960s and early 1970s. [2] The label was founded in the late 1950s was founded by auto plant worker Berry Gordy, and was originally known as Tamla Records.
Sylvia Rose Moy (September 15, 1938 – April 15, 2017) was an American songwriter and record producer, formerly associated with the Motown Records group. The first woman at the Detroit-based music label to write and produce for Motown acts, she is probably best known for her songs written with and for Stevie Wonder.
Days after releasing ‘Innervisions’, Stevie Wonder narrowly escaped death. On the 50th anniversary of the car crash that nearly took the musician’s life, Martin Chilton chronicles that ...
Nathan Lamar Watts (born March 25, 1954, in Detroit, Michigan.) is an American session bassist, best known for his work with Stevie Wonder from the 1970s to the present. He has served as Stevie Wonder's musical director since 1994.
Stevie Wonder wrote “It’s a Shame” with his first wife, Syreeta Wright, and Lee Garrett, who had co-written Wonder’s 1969 hit “Signed, Sealed, Delivered I’m Yours.”
“The Wonder of Stevie” is a seven-part discussion of Wonder’s iconic run of albums. The host is Wesley Morris from the New York Times, whose love for Stevie seems boundless. The executive ...
Remaining best friends, Wright would continue to provide background vocals and compositions with Wonder for the next two decades. [5] In 1974, Wright was again reassigned, this time to the Motown label proper (in the U.S.), and issued her second release, the aptly titled Stevie Wonder Presents: Syreeta that June. [5]