Stevie Wonder Timeline

• 1950 - 13 May Stevie is born.
• 1954 - Steve receives his first instrument a 6-hole Harmonica.
• 1963 - Fingertips single reached #1 on Billboard Pop Charts.
• 1968 - Graduated with honours from the Michigan School for the Blind. Stevie releases four albums: Someday At Christmas, Greatest Hits, Eivets Rednow, For Once In My Life.
• 1969 - Received the Distinguished Service Award from President Nixon
  My Cherie Amour album peaked #3 R&B 34 Pop.
• 1970 - Marriage to Syreeta. Produced & Arranged the album Signed, Sealed, Delivered, #7R&B, 25Pop.
• 1973 - August 6th car accident puts Stevie in Coma for 10 days. Innervisions album release.
• 1979 - Secret Life of Plants is released peaking at #4 on Pop and R&B charts.
• 1980 - Hotter Than July released peaking at #1 R&B #3 pop and #2 UK. Stevie embarks on campaign to make Martin Luther King's birthday a National Holiday in the US..
• 1987 - Release of Characters album peaking at #1 R&B and #17 Pop.
• 1989 - Inducted in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.
• 1991 - Release of Jungle Fever Motion Picture Soundtrack charting at #1 R&B, 24 Pop..
• 1998 - Writes a song and performs at Pavrotti's War Child charity concert.
• 1999 - Boxset At The Close Of A Century released. Received 2 Grammys for work on Hancock's album. Received the Polar Music Prize in Sweden and honoured by the Kennedy Center.
• 2001 - Stevie performs at Detroit's 300th anniversary celebration. Receives Ivor Novello Lifetime Achievement Award.
• 2006 - Stevie's mother Lula Mae Hardaway passes away age 74. Honoured with the National Artistic Achievement Award .
• 2007 - Honoured at the 4th Annual Alfred Mann Foundation Gala..
• 2008 - Received The NAACP Hall of Fame Award.