I stood in front of Sony’s national sales force and made the bold prediction that by 1988 compact discs would exceed the sale of vinyl records and cassettes combined.
Stevie Wonder, original name Stevland Hardaway Judkins, also called Stevland Hardaway Morris, (born May 13, 1950, Saginaw, Michigan, U.S.), American singer, songwriter, and multi-instrumentalist, a child prodigy who developed into one of the most creative musical figures of the late 20th century. Blind from birth and raised in inner-city Detroit, he was a skilled musician by age eight. Renamed Little Stevie Wonder by Berry Gordy, Jr., the president of Motown Records to whom he was introduced by Ronnie White, a member of the Miracles Wonder made his recording debut at age 12. The soulful quality of his high-pitched singing and the frantic