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Stevie Wonder

Gaining fame as a blind child prodigy, singer-songwriter-musician Stevie Wonder would go on to seamlessly fuse '60s soul with '70s funk, making music with a strong moral conscience that always reflected a fundamental hope and joy. His accomplishments in the early to mid-'70s are still unmatched, creating an astounding body of work that will continue to influence music for many years to come.

Born prematurely, Wonder went blind from an excess of oxygen pumped into his incubator. He displayed a tremendous gift for music at an early age, inspiring Motown to release The 12-Year Old Genius, which contained his first hit single, "Fingertips." For the next eight years, Wonder provided a steady string of mainstream R&B hits for Motown, charting with bright, uptempo...
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