Stevie Wonder

Stevland Hardaway Morris, known as Stevie Wonder, was born on 13 May 1950 and is one of the most influential musicians of the twentieth century, claimed as a forerunner across R&B, pop, soul, gospel, funk and jazz. Blind since shortly after his birth, he was a child prodigy who signed to Motown's Tamla label at eleven as Little Stevie Wonder, and "Fingertips" topped the Billboard Hot 100 when he was thirteen — still the youngest solo artist ever to do it. His use of synthesizers in the 1970s reshaped the conventions of contemporary R&B, and his classic period, from Music of My Mind and Talking Book onward, made the album rather than the single his unit of work.