Its Stevie Wonder: The Hit- Maker Who Beat The Odds And Changed The Face Of Music.

The next time you feel like something insurmountable is standing in the way of your ability to pursue your dreams, take a look at Stevie Wonder.  A blind musical child prodigy, Stevie Wonder has been making great music since he was in elementary school, and he has collected a dizzying number of awards for his efforts.  With 30 Top 10 hits and a net worth of $110 million, Stevie Wonder has been writing and performing popular tracks for decades.  Odds are, at least one of the songs in your list of favorites is by the music master, and he's remained so musically relevant that he performed at this year's Grammy Awards with (comparative newcomers) Daft Punk, Pharrell, and Nile Rogers.  The man who went blind while still an infant, went on to inspire multiple generations of singers and musicians, and to write tracks that have gotten parties "bumpin'" for forty years.  Here's they story of how Stevie Wonder beat the odds and became one of the world's most loved music artists. Read more.
He has continued to tour and perform to this day, though he has understandably slowed down somewhat.  Mind you, in Stevie Wonder's world, slowing down means winning more Grammy Awards for duets with performers like Tony Bennett, and guest performing with artists as diverse as Busta Rhymes and Andrea Bocelli.  He has performed to sold-out crowds in almost every country in the world, and he has been honored by music organizations on every continent.  He released his last full-length album in 2005.  It featured his daughter, Aisha Morris, who clearly inherited her father's musical gift.  It also netted him yet another Grammy Award for Best Male Pop Vocal Performance.  It was announced in late 2013, that he will be releasing two new albums in the near future.  It will be interesting to see how his sound has evolved since 2005.  As a pioneer musical genius, both of his new albums are sure to be full of surprises.

Stevie Wonder survived an early birth, and the complications associated with that, and grew up into one of the most prolific and consistently brilliant musicians ever.  His innovation and creativity with regards to overdubbing and the use of electronic instruments has influenced every music artist who came after him, and his renegotiated contract with Motown set a new standard for what artists could ask for with regards to creative control and compensation.  It is almost as if his physical blindness allowed him to see the future of music in a way no one else could.  Lucky for all of us, he certainly never let his disability slow him down.  The next time you're feeling bummed out, turn on any of Stevie Wonder's amazing tracks, and remember that anything is possible.