Multi-Grammy Award-winning singer and songwriter Stevie Wonder is stopping in Baltimore next month during his 10-city tour ahead of Election Day.
Wonder’s show at CFG Bank Arena on Oct. 15 is part of his “Sing Your Song! As We Fix Our Nation’s Broken Heart” tour. His tour is purposely set to start and finish before the presidential election, according to Variety.
Wonder has won 25 Grammy Awards, was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame the Songwriters Hall of Fame, he won the Presidential Medal of Freedom and was a key figure in making Martin Luther King Jr.’s birthday a federal holiday.
He is known for many hits, including “I Just Called to Say I Love You,” “I Wish,” “Sir Duke,” “Higher Ground,” “Superstition” and “Isn’t She Lovely,” among others.
Tickets for the CFG Bank Arena tour stop go on sale at 12 p.m. on Friday.
Wonder last appeared in Baltimore in May at the Miriam A. Friedberg Concert Hall as the recipient of the George Peabody Medal, the highest honor by the institute at the Johns Hopkins University, for his “outstanding contributions” to music.
The multi-Grammy Award winner has a history of performing in various institutions and venues in Baltimore. He talked to a crowded auditorium at the Polytechnic Institute in 1986. He was a guest of honor at Morgan State University in 1988, celebrating the national observance of Martin Luther King Jr. Day alongside Levi Watkins Jr. and Rosa Parks.
Wonder performed outside the Ravens’ stadium in September 1998 on the eve of the venue’s debut in the National Football League — if Baltimore wants to have a party, he said then, he would be there.