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1962 The Jazz Soul of Little Stevie Wonder

1962 Tribute to Uncle Ray

1963 Recorded Live: The 12 Year Old Genius

1963 With a Song in My Heart

1964 Stevie at the Beach

1965 Up-Tight

1966 Down to Earth

1967 I Was Made to Love Her

1967 Someday at Christmas

1968 Eivets Rednow

1968 For Once in My Life

1969 My Cherie Amour

1970 Signed, Sealed, and Delivered

1970 Stevie Wonder Live

1970 Live at the Talk of the Town

1971 Where I'm Coming From

1972 Music of My Mind

1972 Talking Book

1973 Innervisions

1974 Fulfillingness' First Finale

1976 Songs in the Key of Life

1979 Journey through the Secret Life of Plants (Soundtrack)

1980 Hotter than July

1984 The Woman in Red (Soundtrack)

1985 In Square Circle

1987 Characters

1991 Jungle Fever (soundtrack)

1995 Conversation Peace

1995 Natural Wonder

2005 A Time to Love

Michael Jackson Forever (2009) (TV)

Michael Jackson Memorial (2009) (TV)

Miradas 2 (TV)

Extreme Makeover: Home Edition (TV)



Stevie Wonder: In Performance at the White House - The Library of Congress Gershwin Prize (2009) (TV)

Glenn & Linus Michael Attend the Million Man March (2009)

The 40th NAACP Image Awards (2009) (TV)

The 51st Annual (2009) (TV)



GMTV (TV)

Dixie Hummingbirds, The: 80 Years Young (2008)

The BET Honors (2008) (TV)

39th NAACP Image Awards (2008) (TV)

The 50th Annual (2008) (TV)

An Evening of Stars: Tribute to Smokey Robinson (2008) (TV)

Paul Simon: The Library of Congress Gershwin Prize for Popular Song (2007) (TV)

Great Performances (TV)

Happy Birthday Elton! From Madison Square Garden, New York (2007) (TV)

An Evening of Stars: Tribute to Aretha Franklin (2007) (TV)

The 2006 Billboard Music Awards (2006) (TV)

Tony Bennett: An American Classic (2006) (TV)

Tony Bennett: Duets - The Making of an American Classic (2006)

A Capitol Fourth (2006) (TV)

American Masters (TV)

In the Mix (TV)



2006 Trumpet Awards (2006) (TV)

The 20th Annual Soul Train Music Awards (2006) (TV)



The 48th Annual (2006) (TV)

Super Bowl XL Pre-Game Show (2006) (TV)

Jamie Foxx: Unpredictable (2006) (TV)

BET Awards 2006 (2006) (TV)

14th Annual Inner City Destiny Awards (2006)

Top of the Pops: Reloaded (TV)





106 & Park Top 10 Live (TV)



The 2005 World Music Awards (2005) (TV)

Live 8: A Worldwide Concert Event Presented by Nokia (2005) (TV)

Live 8 (2005) (TV)

36th NAACP Image Awards (2005) (TV)

The 3rd Annual TV Land Awards (2005) (TV)

The 47th Annual (2005) (TV)

Tsunami Aid: A Concert of Hope (2005) (TV)

An Evening of Stars: Tribute to Quincy Jones (2005) (TV)

The 2004 Billboard Music Awards (2004) (TV)

VH1 Big in 04 (2004) (TV)

The 10th Annual Walk of Fame Honoring Smokey Robinson (2004) (TV)

Genius: A Night for Ray Charles (2004) (TV)

2004 (2004) (TV)

Songwriters Hall of Fame (2004) (TV)



Big Time (TV)

35th NAACP Image Awards (2004) (TV)

An Evening of Stars: 25th Anniversary Tribute to Lou Rawls (2004) (TV)

VH1 Divas Duets (2003) (TV)

The 8th Annual Walk of Fame Honoring Stevie Wonder (2002) (TV)

Essence Awards (2002) (TV)

American Bandstand's 50th Anniversary Celebration (2002) (TV)

33rd NAACP Image Awards (2002) (TV)

Gilberto Gil: Tempo Rei (2002)

The Kennedy Center Honors: A Celebration of the Performing Arts (2001) (TV)

America: A Tribute to Heroes (2001) (TV)

Race to Erase MS (2001) (TV)

Babyface: A Collection of Hit Videos (2001)

A Very Special Christmas from Washington, D.C. (2000) (TV)

CNN World Beat (TV)

Sting: The Brand New Day Tour - Live from the Universal Amphitheatre (2000)

The Kennedy Center Honors: A Celebration of the Performing Arts (1999) (TV)

Super Bowl XXXIII (1999) (TV)

Pavarotti & Friends for the Children of Liberia (1998) (TV)

To Life! America Celebrates Israel's 50th (1998) (TV)

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Groomed from an early age for Motown stardom, Stevie Wonder mastered that label's distinctive fusion of pop and soul and then went on to compose far more idiosyncratic music - an ambitious hybrid of sophisticated Tin Pan Alley chord changes and R&B energy, inflected with jazz, reggae, and African rhythms. A synthesizer and studio pioneer, he is one of the few musicians to make records on which he plays virtually all the instruments, and does so with both convincing technique and abandon. A lifelong advocate of nonviolent political change patterned after Martin Luther King Jr. and Mahatma Gandhi, Wonder epitomizes '60s utopianism while remaining resolutely contemporary in his musical experiments.

Stevie Morris' prodigious musical talents were recognized when Ronnie White of the Miracles heard the 10-year-old boy, blind from infancy, playing the harmonica for his children, and introduced him to Berry Gordy Jr. of the Hitsville U.S.A. - soon Motown - organization. Gordy named him Little Stevie Wonder. His third single, "Fingertips (Part 2)" was a #1 pop and R&B hit eight months later. Both on records and in live shows he was featured playing harmonica, drums, piano, and organ, as well as singing - sometimes all in one number.

During his first three years in show business, Wonder was presented as an R&B screamer in the Ray Charles mold; much was made of the fact that both were blind. In 1964 he appeared on the screen in Muscle Beach Party and Bikini Beach. Uptight (#3, 1966) included "I Was Made to Love Her" (#2, 1967), "For Once in My Life" (#2, 1968), and "Shoo-Be-Doo-Be-Doo-Da-Day" (#9, 1968). The Wonder style broadened to include Bob Dylan's "Blowin' in the Wind" (#9, 1966), the optimistic "A Place in the Sun" (#9, 1968), and an instrumental version of Burt Bacharach's "Alfie." In 1969 he hit the upper reaches of the charts with the ballads "My Cherie Amour" (#4) and "Yester-Me, Yester-You, Yesterday" (#7).

As his adolescence came to an end, Wonder took charge of his career. By the time of Signed Sealed & Delivered (#25, 1970), he was virtually self-sufficient in the studio, serving as his own producer and arranger, playing most of the instruments himself, and writing material with his wife, Syreeta Wright. In this phase, he scored three more hit singles: "Signed, Sealed, Delivered I'm Yours" (#3, 1970), "Heaven Help Us All" (#9, 1970), and "If You Really Love Me" (#8, 1971).

When he reached his 21st birthday in 1971, he negotiated a new contract with Motown that made him the label's first artist to win complete artistic control (also at 21 he was due the money he had made as a minor, despite earning over $30 million, he received only $1 million). While his singles upheld the company tradition of hook-happy radio fare, they distinguished themselves with such socially conscious subjects as ghetto hardship and political disenfranchisement, especially in evidence in "Living for the City" (#8, 1973). His albums, beginning with Music of My Mind (#21, 1972), on which he played most of the instruments, were devoted to his more exotic musical ideas (which incorporated gospel, rock & roll, jazz, and African and Latin rhythms). To his panoply of instruments, he added synthesizers; played with rare invention and funk, they became the signature of his sound.

Wonder's 1972 tour of the United States with the Rolling Stones helped make #1 hits of two singles released within the next year - "Superstition" (written for Jeff Beck) and "You Are the Sunshine of My Life" - from Talking Book (#3, 1972). The period was difficult personally for Wonder: In 1972 his marriage to Wright ended after only a year (later, with companion Yolanda Simmons, he had two children, as well as a third child by vocalist Melody McCulley). In 1973 he was in a serious car crash that left him in a coma for four days.

In the four years and three albums following Talking Book, Wonder made three more #1 singles ("You Haven't Done Nothin'," "I Wish," and "Sir Duke"), sold millions of each, and received 15 Grammy Awards. Innervisions (#4, 1973) also included "Higher Ground" (#4, 1973), while Fulfillingness' First Finale (#1, 1974) yielded "Boogie On Reggae Woman" (#3, 1974). His songs were covered widely, and he was an acknowledged influence on musicians from Jeff Beck to George Benson to Bob Marley. Working with B.B. King, the Jacksons, the Supremes, Minnie Ripperton, Rufus, and Syreeta Wright, he established himself as a major songwriter and producer. Songs in the Key of Life (#1, 1976) (a double album released after he had signed a $13-million contract with Motown) was a tour de force and topped the charts for 14 weeks.