Sunday, February 20, 2011

Stevie Wonder - Superstition


Stevland Hardaway Judkins was born May 13, 1950 in Saginaw, MI. He later changed his name to Stevland Hardaway Morris, but is best known by his stage name Stevie Wonder. He is an American singer-songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, record producer and activist. Blind since shortly after birth, Wonder signed with Motown Records' Tamla label at the age of eleven, and continues to perform and record for Motown to this day. In August of 1973, Wonder was in a serious automobile accident while on tour in North Carolina, when the car in which he was riding rear-ended a flatbed truck, sliding under the back of the truck and causing the bed of the truck to crash through the car's windshield, striking Wonder in the head. This left him in a coma for four days and resulted in a partial loss of his sense of smell and a temporary loss of sense of taste. It wasn't until March of the next year that Stevie was fully recovered and performing again. A prominent figure in popular music during the latter half of the 20th century, Wonder has recorded more than thirty U.S. top ten hits and won twenty-two Grammy Awards (the most ever won by a solo artist) as well as a Lifetime Achievement Award. He has also won an Academy Award for Best Song, and been inducted into both the Rock and Roll and Songwriters halls of fame.

http://www.steviewonder.net/

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