How Stevie Wonder Helped Create Martin Luther King Day Wonder showed an early gift for music, first with a church choir in Detroit, Michigan, where he and his family had moved to when he was four years old, and later with a range of instruments, including the harmonica, piano and drums, all of which he taught himself before age 10. He was born six weeks early with retinopathy of prematurity, an eye disorder which was exacerbated when he received too much oxygen in an incubator, leading to blindness. Stevie Wonder was born Stevland Hardaway Judkins on May 13, 1950, in Saginaw, Michigan.
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This song was written by Stevie Wonder in 1981 as part of an effort to get Martin Luther King's birthday recognized as a national holiday. Of those who lived and died for the oneness of all people That they should make it become an illusion Than to have a world party on the day you came to be