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Originally Posted by Chill Cosby
For the sake of clarity, is it this generation? Or this decade? What's your criteria on being at Wonder's "level"? Is it actual ability? Influence (which is essentially impossible to accurately gage influence on new acts)? Popularity?
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- Signed to Motown's Tamia label at age 11.
- At age 13, released "Fingertips" which went to #1 on the Billboard 100, making him the youngest ever to do so.
- By 18 he was composing music for other Motown artists as well as himself.
- More than 30 US top-ten hits.
- Plays Piano, Harmonica, Chromatica, Bass, Drums, and several other instruments.
- Played all the instruments himself (except horns) for his records "Talking Book" and "Songs In The Key Of Life", innovating new techniques in composition, instrumentation (including the first prolific use of synthesizers), and engineering/production.
- Rock & Roll Hall Of Fame
- Songwriters Hall Of Fame
- At the time, only the second black artist to win an Academy Award.
Oh, and:
- Won 22 Grammys.
- Sold over 100-million records.
