Stevie Wonder knows well the proverb, “There’s none so blind as those who will not see.”
The singer-songwriter addressed a longstanding rumor he is not blind during a recent stop in Cardiff, Wales on his Love, Light and Song UK tour.
“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,” Wonder, 75, said in an Instagram video posted by a concertgoer earlier this month.
“You know there have been rumors about me seeing and all that? But seriously, you know the truth,” he said.
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Wonder noted that he has been blind since shortly after birth. But he put a positive spin on that.
“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?”
Several celebrities have joked that Wonder can see, leading to the rumors. But Wonder himself has always been open about his condition.
“I was born. Shortly after that, I’m blind,” he said in an audiobook titled The Wonder of Stevie.
“My mother went through the different things, and so my experience with that was deep.” Wonder finally told his mother, “Mama, you shouldn’t cry, you’re making my head hurt.”
“And I said, ‘Maybe God has something for me that’s bigger than all this,’” Wonder said. “History proved that true.”
Watch the video of Stevie Wonder in the UK below.
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