Stevie Wonder “Disillusioned by the US political turmoil…immigrated to Ghana”

World-renowned singer Stevie Wonder performing in Los Angeles on November 27, 2018. [AP=연합뉴스]

World-renowned singer Stevie Wonder (70), famous for his pop songs’Isn’t She Lovely’ and’Lately’, announced plans to move to Ghana, Africa.

According to CNN broadcast on the 22nd (local time), Stevie Wonder in an interview with Oprah Winfrey, commenting on the current political chaos, including racism in the United States, said, “I want to see the United States laugh before I leave for Ghana.”

When Oprah Winfrey asked, “Do you mean you’re immigrating to Ghana forever,” Stevie Wonder responded “yes” and said, “I don’t want to see my kids say,’Please respect me, I’m important.'” It is interpreted as a means to immigrate to avoid social problems that are shaking the United States, such as racial discrimination that has recently triggered the’Black Matters Lives’ movement.

This is not the first time he has announced plans to move to Ghana. In 1994, he said about Ghana that “I feel a lot more belonging than the United States.”

Stevie Wonder, born in Michigan, USA, was born premature and lost his eyesight from retinopathy of prematurity caused by an oversupply of oxygen in an incubator. Starting with playing a harmonica at the age of 5, he not only handled piano, drums, guitar, bass guitar, etc., but has been called as a musical genius for his subdued tone.

After releasing her first album’Little Stevie Wonder’ at age 12,’For Once in My Life’,’Superstition’,’Ribbon in the Sky’,’Sir Duke’,’I Just Called to Say’ He left representative songs such as’I Love You’,’Part Time Lover’, and’Overjoyed’.

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