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LITTLE STEVIE IS 75 YEARS OLD TODAY
Stevland Hardaway Morris, known professionally as Stevie
Wonder, is a singer-songwriter, musician, and record producer.
He is regarded as one of the most influential musicians of the
20th century. Wonder is credited as a pioneer and influence by
musicians across a range of genres that include R&B, pop, soul,
gospel, funk, and jazz.
Blind since shortly after his birth, Wonder was a child prodigy
who signed with Motown‘s Tamla label at the age of 11.


COUNTRY MUSIC STAR HAS DIED AT AGE 73
SAN ANTONIO (AP) — Country music star Johnny Rodriguez, a
popular Mexican American singer best known for chart-topping
hits in the 1970s such as “I Just Can’t Get Her Out of My Mind,”
“Ridin’ My Thumb to Mexico” and “That’s the Way Love Goes,”
died Friday in San Antonio from health complications after
entering hospice care.
HISTORY WAS MADE ON THIS DAY
SANDY KOZEL
Irish singer Bono (Paul David Hewson) is 65 years old today.


FIRST LATINA WOMAN IN SPACE IS 66 TODAY
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Ellen Ochoa is an American engineer, former astronaut and
former director of the Johnson Space Center. In 1993, Ochoa
became the first Latina woman to go to space when she served
on a nine-day mission aboard the Space Shuttle Discovery.
Ochoa became director of the center upon the retirement of
the previous director, Michael Coats, on December 31, 2012.
She was the first Latina director and the second female director
of Johnson Space Center.



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