Legendary singer Stevie Wonder can add another honor to his list of accomplishments. Wonder received a Lifetime Achievement Award from the National Civil Rights Museum, in Memphis, Tennessee, Tuesday night. He then surprised audience members when he segued from his acceptance speech into a medley of his songs that included “My Cherie Amour” and “I Wish.”
According to those in attendance, Wonder made his way to an electronic keyboard and told the audience of about 5,000 that music is a gift he can share, challenging Memphis and the world to “use the gifts God has given us to help those less fortunate.”
“You must use your eyes, voices, ears. Tomorrow is never promised to any of us. You must be the best you can be right now,” Wonder said.
The singer joins a long list of noteworthy previous recipients of the annual award including, Coretta Scott King, former Presidents Bill Clinton and Jimmy Carter, Oprah Winfrey and Paul Rusesabagina, whose heroism in the face of genocide inspired the movie “Hotel Rwanda.”
Okay, she’s technically not a musician by trade, but she is married to one of the most famous rockers in the world and she is certainly no stranger to the media. I’m referring to Sharon Osbourne who is making headlines yet again—this time for an announcement regarding her weight.
The 54-year-old wife/manager of rocker Ozzy Osbourne tells PEOPLE magazine that she plans to remove a gastric band that helped her lose 125 pounds and instead rely on psychotherapy to cope with her weight issues.
“I have to figure out why I do what I do to myself,” Ozzy Osbourne tells the magazine. “I think I have some sort of self-destruction button.”
Osbourne tells all (about her battle with weight and much more) in a new memoir, “Sharon Osbourne Extreme.” In PEOPLE Osbourne confesses that while the gastric band is designed to limit food intake by squeezing down the stomach’s capacity, she packed on 15 pounds this year from overeating.