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LIBRARY OF CONGRESS TO HONOR STEVIE WONDER: Music legend to receive Gershwin Prize for Popular Song.

(September 4, 2008)

*The Library of Congress will award Stevie Wonder with its second Gershwin Prize for Popular Song, which honors an artist whose work transcends musical styles to bring diverse listeners together and foster mutual understanding.

The 58-year-old Motown icon, born Steveland Morris, will receive the award on Feb. 23, 2009, according to the Associated Press.

The first Gershwin Prize was awarded in 2007 to Paul Simon.

Among Wonder's albums: "Talking Book," "Innervisions," "Fulfillingness First Finale" and "Songs in the Key of Life," the last of which included his classic single "Love in Need of Love Today."

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