Stevie Wonder

Motown prodigy and Innervisions

Facts

• Born: 1950
• Country: United States
• Field: Music
• Era: Modern Era

Overview

Signed to Motown at eleven in 1961, and Fingertips 1963 made him the youngest artist to top the Billboard Hot 100 at thirteen. Won twenty five Grammy Awards, including Album of the Year three times in the 1970s for Innervisions, Fulfillingness First Finale, and Songs in the Key of Life. Superstition 1972 defined funk synthesis. He received the Kennedy Center Honors in 1999 and the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 2014, with over 100 million records sold.