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Blind since shortly after his birth, Wonder was a child prodigy who signed with Motown's Tamla label at the age of 11, where he was given the professional name Little Stevie Wonder. Wonder's single " Fingertips " was a No. 1 hit on the Billboard Hot 100 in 1963, when he was 13, making him the youngest solo artist ever to top the chart.
The edit point that begins "Part 2" of "Fingertips" is when Wonder shouts "Everybody say 'yeah!'", initiating a call-and-response exchange with the audience. After a couple of sung verses, each followed by Wonder's brief harmonica playing (solos accompanied only by the audience's rhythmic clapping), [1] Wonder appears to bring things to a conclusion.
Wonder had a US number-one hit with "Fingertips" in 1963, and two more singles in the Top 40: "Workout, Stevie, Workout" (1963) and "Hey Harmonica Man" (1964) .But in 1965 at age 15 his voice had begun to change, and Motown CEO Berry Gordy was worried that he would no longer be a commercially viable artist.
At the 17th Grammy Awards, Stevie Wonder won the Best R&B Vocal Performance, Male for this song. [3] The single spent eight weeks on the UK Singles Chart, peaking at No 12. [4] It features Wonder's distinctive harmonica, although not his usual chromatic type, but instead a diatonic A-flat "blues harp". [5]
By 1976, Stevie Wonder had become one of the most popular figures in R&B and pop music, not only in the U.S., but worldwide. Within a short space of time, the albums Talking Book, Innervisions and Fulfillingness' First Finale were all back-to-back-to-back top five successes, with the latter two winning the Grammy Award for Album of the Year in 1974 and 1975, respectively.
Written by Stevie Wonder and Lee Garrett "Let's Get Serious" is the title track to Jermaine Jackson's 1980 album, and upon its release, it became his first song to top the R&B chart.
Signed, Sealed & Delivered is the twelfth studio album by American recording artist Stevie Wonder, released on August 7, 1970, by Tamla Records.The album featured four hits that hit the Billboard Hot 100: "Signed, Sealed, Delivered I'm Yours" (No. 3), "Heaven Help Us All" (No. 9), "Never Had a Dream Come True" (No. 26) and Wonder's cover of the Beatles' "We Can Work It Out" (No. 13).
The most familiar and successful version of "For Once in My Life" is an uptempo arrangement by Stevie Wonder, recorded in 1967. Wonder's version, issued on Motown's Tamla label, was a top-three hit in the United States and the United Kingdom in late 1968 and early 1969.