Word: steveland
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Birth Revealed. To Steveland Morris, 26, blind Grammy Award-winning singer, lyricist and composer known as Stevie Wonder (For Once in My Life, Superstition); and Yolanda Simmons, his companion for four years; their second child, first boy; on April 16; in Manhattan. Name: Keita Sawandi...
...What is it, Stevie?" the folks would ask as they dropped a coin on the kitchen table. Though only five, Stevie would chirp right back: "Dime" ... "Nickel" ..."Quarter"-whatever it was. That was more of a feat than it might seem. Steveland Morris had been blind since birth. He had also been unstoppable. By the time he was two, spoons in hand, Stevie was beating away rhythmically on pans and tabletops, or on dime-store cardboard drums. At nine, he was singing and playing harmonica up and down the Detroit ghetto streets, and being eased out of the church choir...
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