{"id":66505,"date":"2025-07-15T03:26:09","date_gmt":"2025-07-15T03:26:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/66505\/"},"modified":"2025-07-15T03:26:09","modified_gmt":"2025-07-15T03:26:09","slug":"stevie-wonder-shuts-down-rumors-he-is-not-blind","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/66505\/","title":{"rendered":"Stevie Wonder Shuts Down Rumors He Is Not Blind"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.huffpost.com\/topic\/stevie-wonder\" target=\"_blank\" role=\"link\" class=\" js-entry-link cet-internal-link\" data-vars-item-name=\"Stevie Wonder\" data-vars-item-type=\"text\" data-vars-unit-name=\"68757fffe4b02462fe7a5a54\" data-vars-unit-type=\"buzz_body\" data-vars-target-content-id=\"\/topic\/stevie-wonder\" data-vars-target-content-type=\"feed\" data-vars-type=\"web_internal_link\" data-vars-subunit-name=\"article_body\" data-vars-subunit-type=\"component\" data-vars-position-in-subunit=\"0\" rel=\"noopener\">Stevie Wonder<\/a> knows his fans see the difference between truth and fiction.<\/p>\n<p>Addressing long-lingering rumors he is actually not blind as he performed in Cardiff, Wales, last week, the music legend told fans, \u201cYou know the truth.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou know there have been rumors about me seeing and all that?\u201d Wonder went on. \u201cBut seriously, you know the truth.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cTruth is, shortly after my birth, I became blind,\u201d he told fans.<\/p>\n<p>Calling his disability a gift, Wonder told fans, \u201cNow, that was a blessing because it\u2019s 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?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>For years, the \u201cSuperstition\u201d singer has credited his visual impairment as a key component to his creative genius.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s played a part in that I\u2019m able to use my imagination to go places, to write words about things I\u2019ve heard people talk about,\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/1975\/02\/23\/archives\/to-be-young-gifted-and-blind-a-sense-of-wonder.html\" target=\"_blank\" role=\"link\" class=\" js-entry-link cet-external-link\" data-vars-item-name=\"he told The New York Times back in 1975.\" data-vars-item-type=\"text\" data-vars-unit-name=\"68757fffe4b02462fe7a5a54\" data-vars-unit-type=\"buzz_body\" data-vars-target-content-id=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/1975\/02\/23\/archives\/to-be-young-gifted-and-blind-a-sense-of-wonder.html\" data-vars-target-content-type=\"url\" data-vars-type=\"web_external_link\" data-vars-subunit-name=\"article_body\" data-vars-subunit-type=\"component\" data-vars-position-in-subunit=\"2\" rel=\"noopener\">he told The New York Times back in 1975.<\/a> \u201cIn music and in being blind, I\u2019m able to associate what people say with what\u2019s inside me.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Stevie Wonder knows his fans see the difference between truth and fiction. Addressing long-lingering rumors he is actually&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":66506,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[47171,185,7931,171,47172,67,132,68],"class_list":{"0":"post-66505","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-celebrities","8":"tag-blindness","9":"tag-celebrities","10":"tag-disability","11":"tag-entertainment","12":"tag-stevie-wonder","13":"tag-united-states","14":"tag-unitedstates","15":"tag-us"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/114855122335974708","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66505","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=66505"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66505\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/66506"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=66505"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=66505"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=66505"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}