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Stevie Wonder and how he was discowered.
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Discovery of
Stevie Wonder
About him
"I Just Called"
Stevland Hardaway Morris (born May 13, 1950 as S H Judkins), known by Stevie Wonder, is an American singer-songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, record producer and activist. Blind since shortly after birth, Wonder signed with Motown's Tamla label at the age of eleven, and continues to perform and record for Motown to this day.
Stevie Wonder at a conference in Salvador, Brazil, in July 2006
Early life
Stevie Wonder was born in Saginaw, Michigan, in 1950, the third of six children to Calvin Judkins and Lula Mae Hardaway. Owing to his being born six weeks premature, the blood vessels at the back of his eyes had not yet reached the front and their aborted growth caused the retinas to detach.[3] The medical term for this condition is retinopathy of prematurity, or ROP, and it was exacerbated by the oxygen pumped into his incubator
Links
Wiki - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stevie_Wonder
http://www.muzobzor.ru/bios/stevie-wonder/
http://www.zvezdi.ru/artists/wonder/biography
Discovery
Ronnie White of The Miracles gives credit to his brother Gerald White to check out Stevie Wonder. Afterward, White brought Wonder and his mother to Motown. Impressed by the young musician, Motown CEO Berry Gordy signed Wonder to Motown's Tamla label with the name Little Stevie Wonder. He then recorded the regional Detroit single, "I Call It Pretty Music, But the Old People Call It the Blues", which was released on Tamla in late 1961. Wonder released his first two albums, The Jazz Soul of Little Stevie and Tribute to Uncle Ray, in 1962, to little success.
Photo based on: 'horizon' by pierreyves @ flickr
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