Overview

• At his Love, Light and Song UK Tour stop in Cardiff on July 9, the 75-year-old artist directly confronted long-running jokes and speculation that he can see.
• Onstage at Blackweir Fields, Wonder declared, “Truth is, shortly after my birth I became blind,” putting an end to decades of tongue-in-cheek conspiracy theories.
• He described his blindness as a “blessing” that lets him “see the world in the vision of truth” and perceive people by the color of their spirit rather than their appearance.
• Persistent rumors were fueled by anecdotes from Shaquille O’Neal’s 2019 elevator encounter and Anthony Anderson’s 2016 basketball quip suggesting Wonder might secretly have sight.
• Wonder’s reflections build on stories from his 2024 Wonder of Stevie podcast, where he recalled comforting his mother during her nightly grief after his Retinopathy of Prematurity diagnosis.