He simply referred to as to say you’re mistaken.
Stevie Marvel addressed the long-standing rumor that he isn’t really blind in the course of the Cardiff, Wales, cease on his Love, Mild and Music 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,” Marvel, 75, stated 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.”
The musical legend then defined when he misplaced his sight.
“Truth is, shortly after my birth, I became blind,” Marvel continued. “Now, that was a blessing because it’s 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?”
Through the years, many celebrities have made cracks about Marvel probably not being blind.
Anthony Anderson poked enjoyable on the Grammy winner’s situation whereas on “The Late Show With Stephen Colbert” in 2016.
“What y’all don’t know is, Stevie can see,” the actor, 54, stated whereas sharing the story of how he challenged Marvel to a basketball recreation. “It’s just an act.”
Three years later, Shaquille O’Neal claimed Marvel acknowledged him in an elevator.
The basketball star, 53, advised his “Inside the NBA” colleagues that he was within the foyer of his constructing when Marvel came to visit and stated, “What’s up, Shaq?”
“[He] presses the button. Get’s off on his floor. Goes to his room. I went and called every person I knew and told them the story,” he recalled. “He got on the elevator and was like, ‘What’s up, Shaq? How you doing, big dog?’”
The “Superstition” musician, in the meantime, has been extraordinarily open about his lack of imaginative and prescient.
In 2024, he shared how his mother, Lula Mae Hardaway, struggled with the information at first. Regardless of her response, Marvel saved a constructive outlook.
“I was born. Shortly after that, I’m blind,” he expressed in an episode of “The Wonder of Stevie” audiobook collection. “My mother went through the different things, and so my experience with that was deep.”
Marvel famous that his mom, who died in 2006, would cry “every night” after he was recognized.
The Rock & Roll Corridor of Famer lastly stated to her, “Mama, you shouldn’t cry, you’re making my head hurt.”
“And I said, ‘Maybe God has something for me that’s bigger than all this,’” Marvel recounted. “History proved that true.”
In 2004, he detailed his upbringing for O, The Oprah Journal.
“She didn’t bind me up. She wasn’t like, ‘Don’t step there!’ or ‘Watch out, you’ll fall!’ She’d tell me to be careful, but I was going to do what I was going to do. She was just fast enough to catch me,” he stated of his mom. “She knew I had to learn — and the more she allowed me to do, the more she could let go. She saw that I’d developed what’s called facial radar, meaning that I could hear the sound of objects around me. If you close your eyes and put your hands right in front of your face, then move your hands, you can actually hear the sound of the air bouncing off your hands.”
The artist has additionally saved an amazing humorousness relating to his incapacity.
Marvel bought candid on his friendship with Jamie Foxx whereas presenting the actor with the Final Icon Award on the 2025 BET Awards.
“He hit me up because of his win — Academy Award — for ‘Ray.’ And I said, ‘You know Jamie, just because you play a blind man that don’t mean that we’re besties, okay?’” he joked on the time.
Marvel went on to tease Foxx, 57, and his “love for blind people.”
The “Isn’t She Lovely” singer has received 25 Grammy awards all through his profession. Marvel additionally took dwelling an Oscar in 1984 for Greatest Unique Music “I Just Called to Say I Love You” for the movie “The Woman in Red.”
The star has been inducted into the Rock & Roll Corridor of Fame, Songwriters Corridor of Fame and Rhythm & Blues Music Corridor of Fame.
Marvel has been married 3 times. He beforehand was married to singer-songwriter Syreeta Wright from 1970 to 1972, and clothier Kai Millard Morris from 2001 to 2015.
Marvel has been married to Tomeeka Robyn Bracy since 2017.
He’s additionally dad to 9 youngsters.
“I give a lot of credit to the mothers of my children. They’ve raised the children well,” Marvel advised Winfrey in 2004. “But I’m not one of those fathers who just send money. I guide them as a father and talk to them as a friend. I always want my children to feel they can tell me anything.”
In 2014, he’d go on to joke about his huge household on “The View,” saying: “I got, how many, 22 kids?”
