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An old picture of visually impaired multiple-award winning music star, Stevie Wonder, is currently going viral on social media and people are expressing feelings of shock by the image.

The picture was shared on Twitter by popular gossip account, Daily Loud on Tuesday.

In the image, the 72-year-old is wearing all black and has his long hair scraped back as he speaks into a microphone.

The picture, according to the site was taken in1989, when the star did an acceptance speech after being inducted into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame.

The post has had more than 20million views and everyone is in shock after seeing the Superstition singer’s eyes for the first time.

The famous artiste asked the audience to close their eyes, after he took off his glasses. He asked them to experience the world, as he does, through sound.

One person wrote: “Wow, that’s crazy I’ve never seen his face before. Literally my whole life… coulda sworn he was born with those glasses on.”

Someone replied, “I was just thinking the same thing!” and another agreed: “Literally never ever!!! Same.”

“Not gonna lie I forgot he had a pair of eyes under there,” a fourth person said.

Another joked: “So you telling me he wasn’t born with glasses on?”

Wonder who was not born blind, has always worn dark sunglasses in public and when performing. According to reports he was born six weeks premature in May 1950 in Michigan, USA and was placed in an incubator which contained too much oxygen.