Stevie Wonder
Stevie Wonder
Stevland Hardaway Morris, known by his stage name Stevie Wonder, is an American musician, singer, songwriter, record producer, and multi-instrumentalist. A child prodigy, he is considered to be one of the most critically and commercially successful musical performers of the late 20th century. Wonder signed with Motown's Tamla label at the age of 11, and he continued performing and recording for Motown into the 2010s. He has been blind since shortly after birth...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionMusician
Date of Birth13 May 1950
CountryUnited States of America
I guess people expect or figure me to be a lot of different things.
No one has been a greater advocate for the power of love in this world than I; both in my life and in my music.
I am not a normal man.
Do you know, it's funny, but I never thought of being blind as a disadvantage, and I never thought of being black as a disadvantage.
You know, I have seven children, so I guess I know some things about life.
My mother had a rule, obviously, that I couldn't go across the street by myself, but I had to find a way of doing it.
For the most part, I feel really comfortable with what I've given to the people. I want to give it to them again.
I can't say that I'm always writing in my head but I do spend a lot of time in my head writing or coming up with ideas. And what I do usually is write the music and melody and then, you know, maybe the basic idea. But when I feel that I don't have a song or just say, God, please give me another song. And I just am quiet and it happens.
I listen a lot to rap, and I'm inspired to take it, to use it in another way, to get the message across.
Families buying dog food now, starvation roams the streets. Babies die before their born, infected by the grief.
Mama gives you money for Sunday school, you trade yours for candy after church is through.
Don't need cars cause we've learned to fly on Saturn.
Those yesterdreams were just a cruel and foolish game we used to play, yester-me, yester-you, yesterday.
Hate knows that love is the cure.