Stevie Wonder knows his fans see the difference between truth and fiction.
Addressing long-lingering rumors he is actually not blind as he performed in Cardiff, Wales, last week, the music legend told fans, “You know the truth.”
“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 was heard saying in a video now making the rounds on social media.
“You know there have been rumors about me seeing and all that?” Wonder went on. “But seriously, you know the truth.”
“Truth is, shortly after my birth, I became blind,” he told fans.
Calling his disability a gift, Wonder told fans, “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?”
For years, the “Superstition” singer has credited his visual impairment as a key component to his creative genius.
“It’s played a part in that I’m able to use my imagination to go places, to write words about things I’ve heard people talk about,” he told The New York Times back in 1975. “In music and in being blind, I’m able to associate what people say with what’s inside me.”
