In his 53-year career, he has only recorded for one record label: Tamla, a Motown offshoot.¹⁾

He does not use his right thumb when playing keyboards.²⁾

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 1966.³⁾

Stevland Morris (his legal name) received his education at the Michigan School for the Blind in Lansing.⁴⁾

With “Fingertips” recorded live in concert in 1963, he became the youngest person to top Billboard's Hot 100 at the age of 13.⁵⁾

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).⁶⁾

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 1976.⁷⁾

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.⁸⁾

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.⁹⁾

His harmonica may be heard on albums released in 2015 by Mark Ronson, Donny Osmond, and Melissa Manchester.¹⁰⁾

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”.¹¹⁾

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.¹²⁾