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Stevie Wonder is, without a doubt, one of my favorite musicians of all time. I can listen to Songs in the Key of Life all day, every day from beginning to end and it will never get old. Hell, “Sir Duke”is literally playing in our office Sonos as I write this. Just the other week I caught his set on the main stage at Jazzfest in New Orleans, my second Stevie Wonder live experience.
Somebody gave Stevie wonder the aux and it's lit
— Ray Nagin in ‘05 Playoff Pels (@_idonttweet) May 6, 2017
You get the point — I really love the guy.
One of the great pop culture conspiracies — right up there with Paul McCartney being dead — is the theory that Stevie Wonder isn’t actually blind. The theory has taken over Twitter in recent weeks, exploding in interest amongst pop culture conspiracy theorists:
when I try to explain to people how stevie wonder isn't blind pic.twitter.com/XvyO8VRzTg
— Jake (@JakeWallinger) May 15, 2017
dont let this avril lavigne conspiracy distract u from the fact that stevie wonder is still out there lying about being blind
— jake, (@callmeshitto) May 14, 2017
Here’s the thread offering various “proof” that Stevie isn’t blind. @freshtojeff reports, you decide:
Stevie Wonder is not actually blind thread: pic.twitter.com/L7dPqmJLxq
— jeff (@freshtojefff) May 15, 2017
Stevie Wonder was born six weeks premature, and while in the incubator he developed a disease that caused his retinas to detach
— jeff (@freshtojefff) May 15, 2017
However in his childhood Wonder was known to be a prankster and idk about you but being able to see you target is a major part of pranking
— jeff (@freshtojefff) May 15, 2017
Stevie Wonder is a huge basketball fan and you often see him sit court side pic.twitter.com/JYBrpaBLvM
— jeff (@freshtojefff) May 15, 2017
However little known fact is he gave nba legend Darryl Dawkins the nickname chocolate thunder after watching his basketball game
— jeff (@freshtojefff) May 15, 2017
Another interesting non blind activity Wonder is in to is photography. Here is a picture of him taking a pic of Micheal Jackson pic.twitter.com/GMCU4uL4iH
— jeff (@freshtojefff) May 15, 2017
Im sure Stevie loves reflecting on this picture of the legend when he looks through his scrapbooks
— jeff (@freshtojefff) May 15, 2017
In 1999 Stevie Wonder preformed at the halftime show for Super Bowl XXXIII which started with him driving a car out onto the field
— jeff (@freshtojefff) May 15, 2017
Speaking of performances here's a legendary one with Paul McCartney where Paul knocks over Stevie's mic stand…or does he pic.twitter.com/eXFKZ22fHF
— jeff (@freshtojefff) May 15, 2017
In the 1980's Wonder used his fame as a platform to talk about important issues, he chose to cover drunk driving❔ https://t.co/e6UAKhrbyl
— jeff (@freshtojefff) May 15, 2017
Here's another example of a performance where for a blind man it does appear he has great awareness with who he share the stage(next tweet)
— jeff (@freshtojefff) May 15, 2017
go to 2:40 and look at Stevie stare right into this man's face and then put his arm around him https://t.co/0BENzvUlVl
— jeff (@freshtojefff) May 15, 2017
Never forget: