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Posted on 07/15/2025 12:39:04 PM PDT by nickcarraway
Stevie Wonder addressed the long-standing rumor that he isn’t actually blind during the Cardiff, Wales, stop 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 as seen in an Instagram video from a concertgoer on July 10.
“You know there have been rumors about me seeing and all that? But seriously, you know the truth.”
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At a Bruce Willis roast:
Willis: “People argue whether Die Hard is an action movie or a Christmas movie. Neither. It’s a Bruce Willis movie!!”
Did he post this in Braille on Instagram?
If he did, I didn’t see it.
So did I. Small world, but I wouldn’t want to paint it.
Even Stevie saw the questions coming!
He didn’t answer the question
You don’t have to be a Navy veteran if you stand to talk to Shaq but it’s still a naval address, I mean navel address.
Around 1972 I had a boss whose husband was blind (and a lawyer) and he was in the special Michigan School For The Blind in Lansing with Stevie Wonder. Said he did some goofing off but he was a good guy.
One thing I read that he did, that might contribute to rumors, he memorized the floor plans of certain hotels and places like that. If you watched him closely in a situation like that, he would seem to be able to see where he was going, if you didn’t know better.
There was a blind girl who saw the flash from the Trinity test dozens of miles away in 1945, at least she noticed something. Must have been pretty bright.
I have heard some blind people can detect flashes.
Blind, like deaf, runs the spectrum from legally blind but still able to see limited distance with glasses, to completely blind, zero vision at all.
And excellent books I read was about a blind man who was in the Towers the day they got hit and hose he got out with the help of a friend and his guide dog.
But interspersed with that story were accounts from his growing up years. It is amazing to see how able some fully blind people are at navigating their environment.
The books was called Thunder Dog by Michael Hingson.
Thunder Dog: The True Story of a Blind Man, His Guide Dog, and the Triumph of Trust
https://www.amazon.com/Thunder-Dog-Story-Blind-Triumph/dp/1400204720
It’s a great book and something a child could read it’s so clean and not woke or perverted.
I don’t know man. I’m Ray Charles.
Agree-- I would recognize Shaq's beautiful voice anywhere, and I'm not even a sports fan, but from his endorsement ads. And if he was with a group of people at the time, Stevie may have heard someone saying, ”Yo, Shaq!” to confirm his audio intuition.
I have a dear friend who has been blind since adolescence. He uses a cane, has readers to help him do his job (he went to Ivy League schools and is a lawyer), has a special computer and also reads Braille, but he can see glimmers of light during the day or when lamps are lit at night that help him to get around. He is legally blind but his supportive parents didn't let it hold him back.
I was actually thinking of a different Eddie Murphy, where he was pretending to be a blind veteran to get more panhandling.
Because microphones emit a low noise and have a sort of a force fleld. Certainly he was thoroughly conditioned to hear where his mike was at all times when performing, and the range of its "buzz" and sensitivity.
Me too, Stevie is only a month older than I am.
Excellent question.
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