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<blockquote data-quote="texan" data-source="post: 971858" data-attributes="member: 38206">On this day, 13 May 1950, Stevland Morris was born prematurely on this day in 1950. Too much oxygen in the incubator caused the baby to become permanently blind. However, this did not prove to be any kind of handicap to Stevland’s musical talents as a singer, songwriter&nbsp;and multiinstrumentalist. At the tender age of ten, Little Stevie Wonder, as he was called by Berry Gordy at Motown, was discovered singing and playing the harmonica. The child prodigy got a little bigger and in his teen years recorded Fingertips (his first hit) and My Cherie Amour; co-wrote I was Made to Love Her, For Once in My Life and Tears of a Clown. If You Really Love Me was a #1 hit and Stevie was just 20 years old. </blockquote>

[QUOTE="texan, post: 971858, member: 38206"] [B]On this day, 13 May 1950, Stevland Morris was born prematurely on this day in 1950. Too much oxygen in the incubator caused the baby to become permanently blind. However, this did not prove to be any kind of handicap to Stevland’s musical talents as a singer, songwriter and multiinstrumentalist. [/B][B]At the tender age of ten, Little Stevie Wonder, as he was called by Berry Gordy at Motown, was discovered singing and playing the harmonica. The child prodigy got a little bigger and in his teen years recorded [I]Fingertips[/I] (his first hit) and [I]My Cherie Amour[/I]; co-wrote [I]I was Made to Love Her[/I], [I]For Once in My Life[/I] and [I]Tears of a Clown[/I]. [I]If You Really Love Me[/I] was a #1 hit and Stevie was just 20 years old. [/B] [/QUOTE]

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