NEW YORK, NEW YORK - MAY 05: Stevie Wonder attends the 2025 Met Gala Celebrating "Superfine: Tailoring Black Style" at Metropolitan Museum of Art on May 05, 2025 in New York City. (Photo by Savion Washington/Getty Images)
Stevie Wonder is blind. We know this. Everyone knows this. Wonder, arguably the greatest living maker of popular music, has always been blind. He was born with a condition that caused him to go blind as a baby, which means he has been blind for 75 years. But there’s a persistent, mostly-unserious conspiracy theory that Wonder isn’t really blind, and NBA great Carmelo Anthony is merely the latest celebrity to propagate it. Well, Wonder does not think those rumors are funny, and he addressed them at a recent concert.
