Stevie Wonder Profile
Artist Name: Stevie Wonder
Birth Name: Steveland Judkins Hardaway
Changed Name To: Stevland Morris (old family surname)
Birth Date: May 13th, 1950
Height: 6' 0½" (1.84 m)
Spouses:
Kai Millard Morris (2001 - present) 1 child
Syreeta (14 September 1970 - 1972) (divorced)
Birth Place: Saginaw, Michigan
Genre(s): R&B, Old Motown
Blindness: premature development of his eye, causing the blood vessels to detach from the retina
Nationality: African American
Debut Album: The Jazz Soul of Little Stevie Wonder (1962)
Breakthrough Single: "Fingertips Pt. 2" (US #1) (1963 as Little Stevie Wonder)
Did You Know:
He has 7 children
Has recorded more than 30 Top 10 hits
Has won 24 Grammy Awards
Inducted into both the Rock and Roll and Songwriters halls of fame
Has sold over 100 million albums/records
Has recorded nine U.S. #1 hits
Collaborated on the 1985 smash hit "We Are the World" (USA for Africa)
Has been blind since birth
He also has loss of smell due to a 1973 car crash in North Carolina