[64] Two tracks became No. The album also featured a duet with India Arie on the title track "A Time to Love". [16], Wonder was put in the care of producer and songwriter Clarence Paul, and for a year they worked together on two albums. The name of Wonder's first child with Bracy is unknown. [29], In 1968 he recorded an album of instrumental soul/jazz tracks, mostly harmonica solos, under the title Eivets Rednow, which is "Stevie Wonder" spelled backward. Wonder has been given a range of awards, both for his music and for his civil rights work, including a Lifetime Achievement Award from the National Civil Rights Museum, being named one of the United Nations Messengers of Peace, and earning a Presidential Medal of Freedom from President Barack Obama in 2014. Not bad company to keep! [51] Wonder had become the most influential and acclaimed black musician of the early 1970s. [70], Among his other activities he played harmonica on one track for the 1994 tribute album Kiss My Ass: Classic Kiss Regrooved;[71] sang at the 1996 Summer Olympics closing ceremony;[72] collaborated in 1997 with Babyface on "How Come, How Long", a song about domestic violence that was nominated for a Grammy award;[73] and played harmonica on Sting's 1999 "Brand New Day". [15] Wonder's touring with the Stones was also a factor behind the success of both "Superstition" and "You Are the Sunshine of My Life". A prominent figure in popular music during the second half of the 20th century, Wonder is one of the most successful songwriters and musicians. "[134], Wonder was introduced to Transcendental Meditation through his marriage to Syreeta Wright. [38] Wonder and Wright wanted to "touch on the social problems of the world", and for the lyrics "to mean something". With more than 40 nominations in 11 years, Taylor has been highly recognized by the Recording Academy, and has quite a history with the show. Songs in the Key of Life won Album of the Year and two other Grammys. And when Wonder won the 1985 Oscar for Best Original Song, he dedicated the award to anti-apartheid activist Nelson Mandela. Sinatra had victories in 1960, 1966 and 1967, while Wonder winning in 1974, 1975 and 1977. [42] The album Fulfillingness' First Finale appeared in July 1974 and set two hits high on the pop charts: the No. He and his mother would be paid a weekly stipend to cover their expenses: W… Some of the content on this site expresses viewpoints and opinions that are not those of the Recording Academy. [40] Reaching his 21st birthday on May 13, 1971, he allowed his Motown contract to expire. He and his mother would be paid a weekly stipend to cover their expenses: Wonder received $2.50 (equivalent to $21.39 in 2019) per week, and a private tutor was provided for when Wonder was on tour. By 1975, at the age of 25, Wonder had won two consecutive Grammy Awards: in 1974 for Innervisions and in 1975 for Fulfillingness' First Finale. In 1961, when aged 11, Wonder sang his own composition, "Lonely Boy", to Ronnie White of the Miracles; White then took Wonder and his mother to an audition at Motown, where CEO Berry Gordy signed Wonder to Motown's Tamla label. [128], In 1983, Wonder had a son named Mumtaz Morris with Melody McCulley. In October 2020, while promoting his two recent singles, Wonder mentioned both Through the Eyes of Wonder and The Gospel Inspired by Lula as projects in development, with the former as an album that may feature both singles, and the latter as a future album he may record with his former label Motown. On May 31, 2006, Wonder's mother Lula Mae Hardaway died in Los Angeles at the age of 76. (Gigliotti 95-96). 1 pop hit "Part-Time Lover". Although born in Saginaw, Michigan, Wonder's single mother raised her family in Detroit. 1 on the R&B chart, the first time that had occurred. His "classic period" began in 1972 with the releases of Music of My Mind and Talking Book, the latter featuring "Superstition", which is one of the most distinctive and famous examples of the sound of the Hohner Clavinet keyboard. [140][141][142], On August 31, 2018, Wonder performed at the funeral of Aretha Franklin at Detroit's Greater Grace Temple. His contribution was meant to be a showcase of his talent and thus a weapon in his ongoing negotiations with Gordy about creative autonomy. [12], As a child, Wonder attended Fitzgerald Elementary School. In 1963, the single "Fingertips" was a number-one hit on the Billboard Hot 100 when Wonder was 13, making him the youngest artist ever to top the chart. Although Taylor was nominated for her first Grammy Award (Best New Artist) in 2009, she didn’t take home her first trophy at the show until the 2010 Grammys, where she actually won … As an adult, his seminal albums, In 1973 Wonder took home his first five GRAMMY Awards for, Wonder is one of only three artists in GRAMMY history to win Album Of The Year three times in his career. [106] In 2005, American recording artist Kanye West said of his own work, "I'm not trying to compete with what's out there now. Before signing, producer Clarence Paulgave him the name Little Stevie Wonder. [135] Consistent with that spiritual vision, Wonder became vegetarian, and later a vegan, singing about it in October 2015 on The Late Late Show with James Corden during the show's "Carpool Karaoke" segment. The album also has a Top 10 Hit with "Go Home." In 1982, Wonder released a retrospective of his 1970s work with Stevie Wonder's Original Musiquarium, which included four new songs: the ten-minute funk classic "Do I Do" (which featured Dizzy Gillespie), "That Girl" (one of the year's biggest singles to chart on the R&B side), "Front Line", a narrative about a soldier in the Vietnam War that Wonder wrote and sang in the first person, and "Ribbon in the Sky", one of his many classic compositions. When Motown Records signed Wonder at the age of nine, he became known as "Little Stevie Wonder." 21 the root Stevie Wonder sent a message to ableists everywhere while presenting the winner for Song of the Year at the Grammys this past week. He was the first Motown artist and second African-American musician to win an Academy Award for Best Original Song, for the 1984 film The Woman in Red. To date, Stevie Wonder has had 10 number one hits in the United States. But her biggest wins came with Robert Plant in 2009, when the unlikely pair won Album of the Year (“Raising Sand”) and Record of the Year (“Please Read the Letter”). It went on to win an Academy award for best song in 1985. 21 21. [90][91][92], By June 2008, Wonder was working on two projects simultaneously: a new album called The Gospel Inspired By Lula, which will deal with the various spiritual and cultural crises facing the world, and Through The Eyes Of Wonder, an album he has described as a performance piece that will reflect his experience as a blind man. Kiss Lonely Goodbye (Harmonica With Orchestra) (Track), I Just Called To Say I Love You (Instrumental) (Single), Stevie Wonder's Journey Through The Secret Life Of Of Plants (Album), Signed to Berry Gordy's Motown's Tamla label at age 11, Wonder scored his first Billboard Hot 100 hit at just 13 years old with "Fingertips." [77] Wonder continues to record and perform; though mainly occasional appearances and guest performances, he did do two tours, and released one album of new material, 2005's A Time to Love. [42] Wonder returned to Motown in March 1972 with Music of My Mind. [123], Wonder has nine children by five different women. 2013: received the Music Makes One Global Ambassador Award from the outstanding music award ceremony of Asia and the World, "I Feel Love" Lyrics by Betty Box, Music by, "Pumpin' and Blowin'" – Music and Lyrics by, "The Way You Do It" – Music and Lyrics by Jeff Harrington and Jeff Pennig (1983), "He's Comin' Back (The Devil)" – Music and Lyrics by Chris LeVrar (1990), "(Pussy Pussy Pussy) Whose Kitty Cat Are You?" [85], He sang at the Michael Jackson memorial service in 2009,[86] at Etta James' funeral, in 2012,[87] and a month later at Whitney Houston's memorial service.[88]. Wonder also performed at Washington, D.C.'s 2006 "A Capitol Fourth" celebration. Is that true? Be the first to find out about GRAMMY nominees, winners, important news, and events. In his childhood, he was best known for his harmonica work, but today he is better known for his keyboard skills and vocal ability. [131] This turned out not to be the case, and the couple's new daughter was given the name Nia,[132] meaning "purpose"–one of the seven principles of Kwanzaa. [82] On September 8, 2008, he started the European leg of his Wonder Summer's Night Tour, the first time he had toured Europe in over a decade. https://www.insider.com/black-grammys-winners-album-of-the-year 8). Wonder is the only artist to have won the award with three consecutive album releases. He's so multitalented that it's hard to pinpoint exactly what it is that makes him one of the greatest ever. Also he has won an Oscar for the best song. [53] Despite the setback, Wonder re-appeared for a European tour in early 1974, performing at the Midem convention in Cannes, at the Rainbow Theatre in London, and on the German television show Musikladen. [48] On an episode of the children's television show Sesame Street that aired in April 1973,[49] Wonder and his band performed "Superstition", as well as an original called "Sesame Street Song", which demonstrated his abilities with television. I'm really trying to compete with Innervisions and Songs in the Key of Life. 1 Pop/R&B hits: "I Wish" and "Sir Duke". Beyoncé is the most awarded and nominated woman in Grammy history. Responsibility for the accuracy of information provided in stories not written by or specifically prepared for the Academy lies with the story's original source or writer. Dozens of famous personalities were rounded up in the video, which was titled "The Dream Still Lives". Between 1973 and 2006, Stevie Wonder won a cumulative total of 25 Grammy Awards in various categories.He won Grammy Awards as a songwriter, artist, producer and arranger in the R&B and pop genres. At the Regal Theater, Chicago, his 20-minute performance was recorded and released in May 1963 as the album Recorded Live: The 12 Year Old Genius. Taylor Swift’s surprise pandemic album “Folklore” has won the Grammy for album of the year and put her in the hallowed company of Stevie Wonder, Frank Sinatra and Paul Simon. [128] Wonder has two sons with second wife Kai Millard Morris; the elder is named Kailand and he occasionally performs as a drummer on stage with his father. [66] It was also his first digital recording, and one of the earliest popular albums to use the technology, which Wonder used for all subsequent recordings. [99] Virtually a one-man band during his peak years, his use of synthesizers and further electronic musical instruments during the 1970s helped expand the sound of R&B. His works Innervisions (1973), Fulfillingness' First Finale (1974) and Songs in the Key of Life (1976) all won the Grammy Award for Album of the Year, making him the tied-record holder for the most Album of the Year wins, with three. Wonder's first new album in ten years, A Time to Love, was released in October 2005 to lower sales than previous albums, and lukewarm reviews—most reviewers appearing frustrated at the end of the long delay to get an album that mainly copied the style of Wonder's "classic period" without doing anything new. Unlike most previous albums on Motown, which usually consisted of a collection of singles, B-sides and covers, Music of My Mind was a full-length artistic statement with songs flowing together thematically. [84], Wonder's harmonica playing can be heard on the 2009 Grammy-nominated "Never Give You Up", featuring CJ Hilton and Raphael Saadiq. [126][127] After Aisha was born, Wonder said "she was the one thing that I needed in my life and in my music for a long time". [39] Also in 1970, Wonder co-wrote, and played numerous instruments on the hit "It's a Shame" for fellow Motown act the Spinners. From this album, singles and videos were released for "Gotta Have You", "Fun Day" (remix only), "These Three Words" and "Jungle Fever". It marks Swift's third career win for album of the year, following trophies for "Fearless" in 2010 and "1989" in 2016. In December 2016, the City of Detroit recognized Wonder's legacy by renaming a portion of his childhood street, Milwaukee Avenue West, between Woodward Avenue and Brush Street, as "Stevie Wonder Avenue". [citation needed][clarification needed] Wonder has retained Morris as his legal surname. The announcement was paired with the release of two singles: "Can't Put It in the Hands of Fate", a "socially-conscious" funk track, and "Where Is Our Love Song," whose proceeds will go towards the organization Feeding America. [89] The album was released in October 2013. Matthew Hoyt. He also helped drive the genre into the album era, crafting his LPs as cohesive, consistent socially conscious statements with complex compositions. [30] The album failed to get much attention, and its only single, a cover of "Alfie", only reached number 66 on the U.S. The album also included "Master Blaster (Jammin')", "I Ain't Gonna Stand for It", and the sentimental ballad, "Lately". But first, there's that voice. 1 hit "Superstition",[45] which is one of the most distinctive and famous examples of the sound of the Hohner Clavinet keyboard. Sprawling in style and sometimes lyrically difficult to fathom, the album was hard for some listeners to assimilate, yet is regarded by many as Wonder's crowning achievement and one of the most recognizable and accomplished albums in pop music history. He is also the only artist to have won the award with three consecutive album releases. [26], Dropping the "Little" from his name, Moy and Wonder worked together to create the hit "Uptight (Everything's Alright)",[26] and Wonder went on to have a number of other hits during the mid-1960s, including "With a Child's Heart", and "Blowin' in the Wind",[24] a Bob Dylan cover, co-sung by his mentor, producer Clarence Paul. 1. "[61][62], The double album-with-extra-EP Songs in the Key of Life was released in September 1976. In 2015 Wonder was honored with the GRAMMY TV special "Stevie Wonder: Songs In The Key Of Life — An All-Star GRAMMY Salute," which featured tribute performances by Beyoncé, Ed Sheeran, Gary Clark Jr., and Wonder himself. These Are the 28 Grammy Awards Beyonce Has Won Beyonce has made Grammys history! [75] In December 1999, Wonder announced that he was interested in pursuing an intraocular retinal prosthesis to partially restore his sight. He is one of the most successful songwriters and musicians. How many Grammys did Beyoncé win as a solo artist? [27] Sylvia Moy persuaded label owner Berry Gordy to give Wonder another chance. [54] On his return from Europe, he played a sold-out concert at Madison Square Garden in March 1974, highlighting both up-tempo material and long, building improvisations on mid-tempo songs such as "Living for the City". [11] She later rekindled her relationship with her first child's father (whose surname was also coincidentally Hardaway)[8] and changed her own name back to Lula Hardaway, going on to have two more children; she later also changed Stevie's surname to Morris, partly because of relatives. [139], Wonder has been a longtime Baptist affiliated with black churches. The 1979 mainly instrumental soundtrack album Stevie Wonder's Journey Through "The Secret Life of Plants" was composed using an early music sampler, a Computer Music Melodian. During the tour, he played eight UK gigs; four at the O2 Arena in London (filmed in HD and subsequently released as a live-in-concert release on DVD and Blu-Ray, Live At Last[83]), two in Birmingham and two at the M.E.N. 1 in the Billboard charts, where it stood for 14 non-consecutive weeks. Popular ballads such as "Golden Lady" and "All in Love Is Fair" were also present, in a mixture of moods that nevertheless held together as a unified whole. In October 2020, Wonder announced that he had a new vanity label released via Republic Records, So What the Fuss Records, marking the first time his music was not released through Motown Records. He has won fourteen Grammy’s and one Academy Award, which he dedicated to Nelson Mandela. ", "Music Icon Stevie Wonder Visits Local Vegan Restaurant", "Stevie Wonder Creates Impromptu Song About Going Vegan", "Harry Styles, Katy Perry, And More Celebs Come Together In New MLK Video Tribute", "Stevie Wonder surprises Minneapolis Baptist church", "Stevie Wonder visits Elizabeth Baptist Church", "Aretha Franklin Funeral: See Stevie Wonder Deliver 'The Lord's Prayer' and 'As, "Isn't it lovely? [7] Before signing, producer Clarence Paul gave him the name Little Stevie Wonder. Elmira College. [116][117] In June 2009 he became the fourth artist to receive the Montreal Jazz Festival Spirit Award. He has won 25 Grammy Awards making him one of the most awarded artists of all time. Wonder's first tweet took the Internet by storm, and he also encouraged viewers to share their own videos about their dreams with the hashtag #DreamStillLives. [60] In 1976, when Paul Simon won the Album Of The Year Grammy for his Still Crazy After All These Years, he wryly noted, "I'd like to thank Stevie Wonder, who didn't make an album this year. He played harmonica on the album Dreamland Express by John Denver in the song "If Ever", a song Wonder co-wrote with Stephanie Andrews; wrote the track "I Do Love You" for the Beach Boys' 1985 self-titled album; and played harmonica on "Can't Help Lovin' That Man" on The Broadway Album by Barbra Streisand. Not only did he win trophies for his songs, he also got some for one of his books, Talking Book, which won a Grammy. Wonder's "classic period"—the polite phrase for when Stevie spent five years ferociously dunking on the entire history of popular music with the releases of Music of My Mind, Talking Book, Innervisions, Fulfillingness' First Finale, and Songs in the Key of Life [...] We've never heard anything like it since, and barring another reincarnation, we never will again. Hotter than July (1980) became Wonder's first platinum-selling single album, and its single "Happy Birthday" was a successful vehicle for his campaign to establish Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.'s birthday as a national holiday. Not a single one. Stevie Wonder has received many honorary degrees in recognition of his music career. [28] He also began to work in the Motown songwriting department, composing songs both for himself and his label mates, including "The Tears of a Clown", a No. [129][130] Wonder also has a daughter, Sophia, and a son, Kwame, with a woman whose identity has not been publicly disclosed. Until 1979's Stevie Wonder's Journey Through "The Secret Life of Plants" his only release was the retrospective three-disc album Looking Back, an anthology of his early Motown period. These include: Most of these songs hit the charts in a big way before Stevie turned twenty-one [in 1971]. During the same time as the album's release, Wonder began touring with the Rolling Stones to alleviate the negative effects from pigeonholing as a result of being an R&B artist in America. [111] Wonder was the first Motown artist and second African-American musician to win an Academy Award for Best Original Song, which he won for his 1984 hit single "I Just Called to Say I Love You" from the movie The Woman in Red. [104] Others skip over early 1972 and determine the beginning of the classic period to be Talking Book in late 1972,[105] the album in which Wonder "hit his stride". Along with Ray Charles, he's the greatest R&B singer who ever lived." [13][14], In 1961, when aged 11, Wonder sang his own composition, "Lonely Boy", to Ronnie White of the Miracles;[15][16] White then took Wonder and his mother to an audition at Motown, where CEO Berry Gordy signed Wonder to Motown's Tamla label. Wonder won for Innversisions (1973), Fulfillingness' First Finale (1974) and Songs In The Key Of Life (1976). Michael Jackson also sang a duet with him entitled "Get It" on Wonder's 1987 album Characters. 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Wonder has been credited as a pioneer and influence to musicians of various genres including pop, rhythm and blues, soul, funk and rock. Blind since shortly after his birth, Wonder was a child prodigy known as Little Stevie Wonder, leading him to sign with Motown's Tamla label at the age of 11. When people in decades and centuries to come talk about the history of music, they will talk about Louis Armstrong, Duke Ellington, Ray Charles and Stevie Wonder [...] he [Wonder] evolved into an amazing songwriter and a genuine musical force of nature. After 1987's Characters album, Wonder continued to release new material, but at a slower pace. Each person involved shared their dream, calling back to King's popular speech in 1963. Wonder wrote the lyrics. Taylor Swift's surprise pandemic album "Folklore" has won the Grammy for album of the year and put her in the hallowed company of Stevie Wonder, Frank Sinatra and Paul Simon. Wonder has sold over 100 million records worldwide, making him one of the best-selling music artists of all time. Wonder's "classic period", which culminated in 1976, was marked by his funky keyboard style, personal control of production, and use of integrated series of songs to make concept albums. Legendary talents such as Stevie Wonder and Quincy Jones have no end of awards to their names, but which artist has the most Grammys? The 120-page contract was a precedent at Motown and gave Wonder a much higher royalty rate. [100] He is also credited as one of the few artists who helped drive R&B into the album era, by crafting his LPs as cohesive, consistent statements with complex sounds. [93] If Wonder were to join forces with Bennett, it would not be for the first time: their rendition of "For Once in My Life" earned them a Grammy for best pop collaboration with vocals in 2006.[48]. The bluegrass queen, 48, has tasted victory both on her own and with her group Union Station. Arena in Manchester. [67] In this year Wonder also wrote and produced the dance hit "Let's Get Serious", performed by Jermaine Jackson and (ranked by Billboard as the No. Wonder was also keeping the door open for a collaboration with Tony Bennett and Quincy Jones concerning a rumored jazz album. https://nypost.com/article/artists-whove-won-the-most-grammy-awards-ever Tribute to Uncle Ray was recorded first, when Wonder was still 11 years old. The hit single "Signed, Sealed, Delivered I'm Yours" was his first-ever self-produced song. Wonder is the only artist in Grammy history to win album of the year with three consecutive studio releases. By the age of twenty five Stevie was a multiple Grammy-Award winner. 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