{"id":181965,"date":"2025-07-21T08:20:08","date_gmt":"2025-07-21T08:20:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/2025\/07\/21\/stevie-wonder-wont-give-up-performing\/"},"modified":"2025-07-21T08:20:08","modified_gmt":"2025-07-21T08:20:08","slug":"stevie-wonder-wont-give-up-performing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/2025\/07\/21\/stevie-wonder-wont-give-up-performing\/","title":{"rendered":"Stevie Wonder won&#8217;t give up performing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"byline\">\n<p>        <time itemprop=\"datePublished\" content=\"2025-07-21\" datetime=\"1753086008\" pubdate=\"\">21 July 2025<\/time>\n    <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.femalefirst.co.uk\/stevie-wonder\/\" class=\"exposure-link \" data-linktrack=\"LinkTracker,articleExposure,stevie-wonder\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Stevie Wonder<\/a> will carry on performing for as long as he can &#8220;breathe&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>                            <\/p>\n<p class=\"image-caption landscape\">Stevie Wonder has no plans to stop performing<\/p>\n<p>The 75-year-old singer recently headlined BST Hyde Park in London and has no intention of slowing down.<\/p>\n<p>Stevie told the BBC&#8217;s Sidetracked podcast: &#8220;For as long as you breathe, for as long as your heart beats, there&#8217;s more for you to do. I&#8217;m not gonna stop the gift that keeps pouring through my body.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I love doing what I&#8217;m doing. An artist never stops drawing. As long as you can imagine is as long as you are going to be creative.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Stevie&#8217;s Hyde Park gig featured classic hits like Superstition and Isn&#8217;t She Lovely and he explained that he never gets bored of revisiting his older tracks.<\/p>\n<p>\nThe Motown icon said: &#8220;Songs are like children, they&#8217;re with you forever. They are statement from the spirit within you.<\/p>\n<p>\n&#8220;And singing those songs is like taking me another breath.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>\nStevie has been vocal on the issue of civil rights throughout his music career and fears that the United States is being led by &#8220;people trying to go backwards&#8221; in the form of Donald Trump&#8217;s administration.<\/p>\n<p>\nThe Sir Duke artist, who campaigned for Trump&#8217;s Democrat opponent Kamala Harris in the presidential election last year, said: &#8220;It&#8217;s not gonna go down like that. I think that if you look back in history, there&#8217;s always been a point where people wake up.<\/p>\n<p>\n&#8220;And I think that, for those who think it is gonna go down like that, remember that God is watching you.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>\nMeanwhile, Stevie recently dismissed wild rumours that he isn&#8217;t actually blind and explained that he sees his disability as a &#8220;blessing&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>\nSpeaking during a recent gig in Cardiff, Wonder \u2013 who lost his sight after he was born prematurely \u2013 said: &#8220;I must say to all of you, something that I was thinking, \u2018When did I want to let the world know this?&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>\n&#8220;But I wanted to say it right now. You know there have been rumours about me seeing and all that? But seriously, you know the truth.<\/p>\n<p>\n&#8220;Truth is, shortly after my birth, I became blind.<\/p>\n<p>\n&#8220;Now, that was a blessing because it\u2019s allowed me to see the world in the vision of truth, of sight.<\/p>\n<p>\n&#8220;See people in the spirit of them, not how they look. Not what colour they are, but what colour is their spirit?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><!-- Pagination --><\/p>\n<p><!-- playbuzz --><br \/>\n<!-- end playbuzz--><\/p>\n<p><!-- \n\n<div data-cn-project=\"femalefirst\">\n    \n<\/div>\n\n --><\/p>\n<p><!-- Outbrain { date: 2018\/06\/08 } --><br \/>\n<!-- Outbrain { date: 2018\/06\/08 } --><\/p>\n<p>    <!-- Outbrain { date: 2018\/06\/08 } --><br \/>\n    <!-- Outbrain { date: 2018\/06\/08 } --><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.femalefirst.co.uk\/celebrity\/stevie-wonder-give-performing-1422326.html?f=rss\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>21 July 2025 Stevie Wonder will carry on performing for as long as he can &#8220;breathe&#8221;. Stevie Wonder has no plans to stop performing The 75-year-old singer recently headlined BST Hyde Park in London and has no intention of slowing down. Stevie told the BBC&#8217;s Sidetracked podcast: &#8220;For as long as you breathe, for as [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":181966,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[54,2945,1221],"class_list":{"0":"post-181965","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-make-up","8":"tag-donald-trump","9":"tag-kamala-harris","10":"tag-stevie-wonder"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/181965","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=181965"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/181965\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/181966"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=181965"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=181965"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=181965"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}