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Stevie Wonder had the perfect answer to the persistent rumor that he was actually not blind. During a concert of his “Love, Light and Song” tour in Welsh Cardiff, the singer took the wild speculation with humor and turned to the audience. “I have to tell you all what I thought about: ‘When do I want to tell the world?’ But I wanted to say it now.
“A blessing because it allowed me to see the world in the vision of truth”
He continued: “The truth is, shortly after my birth I got blind. Well, that was a blessing because I allowed me to see the world in the vision of truth, in the vision of vision. Seeing people in the spirit, not what they look like. Not what skin color they have, but what color their mind has.”
Wonder has always treated the topic of blindness with ease. In an appearance at The Late Show With David Letterman in 2015, the musician listed the best advantages of being blind, including: “You can pretend that you don’t see anything, even though you do it” and “You can say that you haven’t seen it even though you saw it.”
“Maybe God has something for me that is bigger than all of that”
His life optimism developed early in childhood. In conversation with the journalist Wesley Morris and Barack Obama in 2024 for the Podcast The Wonder of Stevie said Wonder: “I was born. Shortly afterwards I was blind. My mother went through various things, so my experience was very deep.”
The 25-time Grammy winner said that his mother “cried” every night and he once told her: “Mom, you shouldn’t cry, you should do my headache.”
“And I said: ‘Maybe God has something for me that is bigger than all of this,” remembered Wonder and added: “History confirmed that.”