Description:Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 36. Chapters: Charlize Theron, Jane Goodall, Elie Wiesel, Michael Douglas, Paulo Coelho, Yo-Yo Ma, George Clooney, Stevie Wonder, Daniel Barenboim, Midori Got, Haya bint Al Hussein. Excerpt: Stevland Hardaway Morris (previously Judkins; born May 13, 1950), known by his stage name Stevie Wonder, is an American singer-songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, record producer and activist. Blind since shortly after birth, Wonder signed with Motown Records' Tamla label at the age of eleven, and continues to perform and record for Motown to this day. Among Wonder's best known works are singles such as "Superstition," "Sir Duke," "I Wish" and "I Just Called to Say I Love You." Well known albums also include Talking Book, Innervisions and Songs in the Key of Life. He has recorded more than thirty U.S. top ten hits and received twenty-two Grammy Awards, the most ever awarded to a male solo artist. Wonder is also noted for his work as an activist for political causes, including his 1980 campaign to make Martin Luther King, Jr.'s birthday a holiday in the United States. In 2009, Wonder was named a United Nations Messenger of Peace. In 2008, Billboard magazine released a list of the Hot 100 All-Time Top Artists to celebrate the US singles chart's fiftieth anniversary, with Wonder at number five. Stevie Wonder was born in Saginaw, Michigan in 1950, being the third of six children to Calvin Judkins and Lula Mae Hardaway. Owing to his being born six weeks premature, the blood vessels at the back of his eyes had not yet reached the front and their aborted growth caused the retinas to detach. The medical term for this condition is retinopathy of prematurity, or ROP, and while it may have been exacerbated by the oxygen pumped into his incubator, this was not the primary cause of his blindness. When Stevie Wonder was four, his mother left his father and...We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with United Nations Messengers of Peace: Charlize Theron, Jane Goodall, Elie Wiesel, Michael Douglas, Paulo Coelho, Yo-Yo Ma, George Clooney. To get started finding United Nations Messengers of Peace: Charlize Theron, Jane Goodall, Elie Wiesel, Michael Douglas, Paulo Coelho, Yo-Yo Ma, George Clooney, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed. Our library is the biggest of these that have literally hundreds of thousands of different products represented.
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United Nations Messengers of Peace: Charlize Theron, Jane Goodall, Elie Wiesel, Michael Douglas, Paulo Coelho, Yo-Yo Ma, George Clooney
Description: Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 36. Chapters: Charlize Theron, Jane Goodall, Elie Wiesel, Michael Douglas, Paulo Coelho, Yo-Yo Ma, George Clooney, Stevie Wonder, Daniel Barenboim, Midori Got, Haya bint Al Hussein. Excerpt: Stevland Hardaway Morris (previously Judkins; born May 13, 1950), known by his stage name Stevie Wonder, is an American singer-songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, record producer and activist. Blind since shortly after birth, Wonder signed with Motown Records' Tamla label at the age of eleven, and continues to perform and record for Motown to this day. Among Wonder's best known works are singles such as "Superstition," "Sir Duke," "I Wish" and "I Just Called to Say I Love You." Well known albums also include Talking Book, Innervisions and Songs in the Key of Life. He has recorded more than thirty U.S. top ten hits and received twenty-two Grammy Awards, the most ever awarded to a male solo artist. Wonder is also noted for his work as an activist for political causes, including his 1980 campaign to make Martin Luther King, Jr.'s birthday a holiday in the United States. In 2009, Wonder was named a United Nations Messenger of Peace. In 2008, Billboard magazine released a list of the Hot 100 All-Time Top Artists to celebrate the US singles chart's fiftieth anniversary, with Wonder at number five. Stevie Wonder was born in Saginaw, Michigan in 1950, being the third of six children to Calvin Judkins and Lula Mae Hardaway. Owing to his being born six weeks premature, the blood vessels at the back of his eyes had not yet reached the front and their aborted growth caused the retinas to detach. The medical term for this condition is retinopathy of prematurity, or ROP, and while it may have been exacerbated by the oxygen pumped into his incubator, this was not the primary cause of his blindness. When Stevie Wonder was four, his mother left his father and...We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with United Nations Messengers of Peace: Charlize Theron, Jane Goodall, Elie Wiesel, Michael Douglas, Paulo Coelho, Yo-Yo Ma, George Clooney. To get started finding United Nations Messengers of Peace: Charlize Theron, Jane Goodall, Elie Wiesel, Michael Douglas, Paulo Coelho, Yo-Yo Ma, George Clooney, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed. Our library is the biggest of these that have literally hundreds of thousands of different products represented.