Oldies

Stevie Wonder in This Week’s Motown Minute

todayMarch 9, 2016

Background
share close

It’s time for another Motown Minute! Steveland Hardaway Judkins was born a premature baby on May 13, 1950 in Saginaw, Michigan, suffering from a condition that eventually caused him to become blind. At a very early age, Steveland began to play the piano, drums, harmonica and guitar.

Talk about a prodigy, when Stevie was 11 he wrote a song called “Lonely Boy,” which eventually caught the eye of Motown CEO Berry Gordy who signed Stevie to a contract. At the age of 13, Stevie Wonder had his first national hit with “Fingertips.”

One of the more interesting aspects of Stevie wonder’s career was that in the 70s Stevie embraced the technology learning to incorporate various instruments that gave his music a combined ‘Funk’, or rock and soul. No one can deny “Living for the City”, “Superstition” and “Higher Ground” were songs that weren’t well ahead of their time in the 70s.

Stevie Wonder has earned 25 Grammys, a Lifetime Achievement Award, has been inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame as a songwriter, and as a performer in 1989.


Photo credit: s_bukley / Shutterstock.com

Written by: Vipology Staff Writer

Rate it

Previous post

Country

Carrie Underwood Looks to Expand Her Family

Recently, Carrie Underwood did an interview with People and in that interview she made it be known that she wants to have another baby. This should come as no surprise, as she only has one child, Isaiah, and it’s not uncommon for parents to want to give their child a sibling to grow up with. Isaiah is just one years old, but when asked where Carrie sees herself in the […]

todayMarch 9, 2016


Subscribe

LISTEN WITH YOUR APP

0%