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Happy birthday song by stevie wonder3/6/2024 ![]() As Black Power politics seeped into the early-’70s cultural landscape, Stevie became a symbol of both the movement’s righteous indignation and its hope for a more socially just world. ![]() First emerging as a child star in the early ’60s, covering Ray Charles standards under the name Little Stevie Wonder, Stevland Hardaway Judkins (born in Saginaw, Michigan, in 1950) would, by decade’s end, graduate to the more sophisticated soul of Motown-defining singles like “For Once in My Life”, showing future teen idols like Justin Timberlake and Justin Bieber how to gracefully age out of kinder-pop novelty. ![]() That he’s accomplished it without his sight is both the most astonishing and least remarkable thing about him. An impassioned vocalist, prodigious multi-instrumentalist and visionary producer, Stevie Wonder is a truly transformative figure in the history of popular music.
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