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 His cover of Bob Dylan's "Blowin' in the Wind" hit No. 9 on the pop chart and No. 1 on the R&B chart in 1966.[([[http://www.rebeatmag.com/it-was-50-years-ago-today-blowin-in-the-wind-by-stevie-wonder/|rebeatmag]])]
+===== Education =====
+Stevland Morris (his legal name) received his education at the Michigan School for the Blind in Lansing.[([[https://aphmuseum.org/record/stevie-wonder-hugged-by-mother-at-high-school-graduation/|aphmuseum]])]
+===== Youngest =====
+With "Fingertips" recorded live in concert in 1963, he became the youngest person to top Billboard's Hot 100 at the age of 13.[([[https://m.facebook.com/electricroomlodhi/photos/a.291061934672062/551313925313527/?type=3|Facebook]])]
+===== Grammys =====
+He has received 25 Grammy Awards. Only conductor Georg Solti (31) and producer Quincy Jones, as well as bluegrass queen Alison Krauss, have more (27 each).[([[https://nypost.com/article/artists-whove-won-the-most-grammy-awards-ever/|NYPost]])]
+===== Consecutive Wins =====
+He is the first musician to have won the Grammy for album of the year three times in a row, for "Innervisions" in 1973, "Fulfillingness' First Finale" in 1974, and "Songs in the Key of Life" in 1976.[([[https://www.officialcharts.com/artist/5543/stevie-wonder/|Official Charts]])]
+===== Isn't She Lovely =====
+Wonder penned "Isn't She Lovely" for his 1976 album "Songs in the Key of Life" to commemorate the birth of his daughter Aisha. Aisha Morris is now a backing vocalist, joining her father on a tour in which he performs the whole record.[([[https://www.songfacts.com/facts/stevie-wonder/isnt-she-lovely|Song Facts]])]
+===== One Night Perfomances =====
+He once played in three places in one night in the late 1960s: the Carter Barron Amphitheatre in Washington, D.C.; the Lincoln Memorial (for an event organized by First Lady Pat Nixon); and in Baltimore, standing in for an ailing Marvin Gaye after an hour-long, high-speed limousine trip.[([[https://inoneearnet.wordpress.com/2016/05/29/who-is-really-just-a-walking-pair-of-ears/|inoneearnet]])]
+===== Harmonica =====
+His harmonica may be heard on albums released in 2015 by Mark Ronson, Donny Osmond, and Melissa Manchester.[([[https://www.pressreader.com/malaysia/the-star-malaysia-star2/20150402/281616713875573|pressreader]])]
+===== Writing For Others =====
+Hits he's written for other artists include Smokey Robinson's "Tears of a Clown," the Spinners' "It's a Shame," Rufus' "Tell Me Something Good," and Jermaine Jackson's "Let's Get Serious".[([[http://www.steviewonder.org.uk/discography/songwriter.html|Stevie Wonder]])]
+===== No.1 Hits =====
+He has ten No. 1 pop hits and twenty No. 1 R&B songs to his credit, but only three of his albums have reached the top of Billboard's chart.[([[https://www.today.com/popculture/stevie-wonder-still-reaching-higher-ground-wbna6659558|Today]])]

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