Stevie Wonder Breaks Silence On Claims He Isn’t Fully Blind. Singer shares heartfelt perspective on blindness and spiritual vision during UK tour.
One of the funniest conspiracy theories is that Stevie Wonder isn’t fully blind, and the singer pokes fun at himself during a recent show on his Love, Light and Song UK Tour at Blackweir Fields in Cardiff, Wales.
The Grammy-award-winning recipient jokingly responds to the rumors of his blindness and the origin story behind it.
“I must say to all of you, something that I was thinking, ‘When did I want to let the world know this?’ But I wanted to say it right now,” he began telling his audience.
“You know there have been rumors about me seeing and all that? But seriously, you know the truth. Truth is shortly after my birth I became blind,” Wonder said. “Now, that was a blessing because it’s allowed me to see the world in the vision of truth, of sight. See people in the spirit of them, not how they look. Not what color they are, but what color is their spirit?”
Celebrities poke fun at Wonder about his blindness, respectfully, of course.
But, it’s social media that truly believes the veteran can see a bit.
An old TikTok clip showed a podcaster sharing how she feels Wonder can see “just a little bit.”
“Sometimes he be taking pictures,” the host jokingly said before beginning to chuckle.
“I’m not saying he can see. I’m just saying maybe he can see a little.”
Stevie Wonder addresses rumors of him not being blind at concert
“The truth is, shortly after my birth, I became blind,” Wonder told an audience in Cardiff, Wales.
Multi-Grammy award-winning artist Stevie Wonder responded to the long-standing, baseless rumor about his eyesight.
The “Isn’t She Lovely” singer addressed the ongoing gossip about his ability to see during a July 9 appearance at Blackweir, a music concert series in Cardiff, Wales.
“You know the truth. The truth is, shortly after my birth, I became blind,” Wonder told the audience. “Now, that was a blessing because it allowed me to see the world in the vision of truth, of sight.”
He continued, “See people in the spirit of them, not how they look, not what color they are, but what color is their spirit.”
According to a Welsh news outlet, the music legend performed his hits “Living For the City” and “I Just Called to Say I Love You.”
Speculation about Stevie Wonder’s eyesight has been the center of jokes and conspiracy theories in pop culture for decades.
For instance, the popular podcast “Drink Champs,” hosted by rapper N.O.R.E. and DJ EFN, shared a compilation of celebrities sharing their “Steve Wonder Can See Stories.”
“On everything I love, Stevie Wonder does FaceTime me,” Snopp Dogg joked, explaining how the singer once called him while he was getting his hair done. The “Gin and Juice” rapper claimed when he answered, Wonder said, “I’ve been looking for you.”
Wonder has previously joined in on the jokes too, but has made it clear throughout his career that being blind has not been a setback in his life.
“I never thought of being blind as a disadvantage, and I never thought of being Black as a disadvantage,” Wonder said in a 2012 profile in The Guardian. “I am what I am. I love me! And I don’t mean that egotistically – I love that God has allowed me to take whatever it was that I had and to make something out of it.”
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