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Person · 1950–

Stevie Wonder

The Motown prodigy and multi-instrumentalist whose genius reshaped popular music.

A genius of [[black-music]].

Blind from infancy, Stevie Wonder became a Motown star as a child and an artistic giant as an adult, winning 25 Grammys and weaving social conscience through classics like "Songs in the Key of Life."

On the timeline

  1. January 12, 1959
    Motown Records is founded

    Berry Gordy launches the label that will define the "Sound of Young America."

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