Stevie Wonder
**FILE** Stevie Wonder performs in D.C. in 2015.

Music icon Stevie Wonder revealed during his concert Saturday in London that heโ€™ll undergo a kidney transplant this fall.

Wonder, 69, said he shared the news to quell speculations about his health.

โ€œIโ€™m going to be doing three shows then taking a break,โ€ he said told the packed crowd at Hyde Park. โ€œIโ€™m having surgery. Iโ€™m going to have a kidney transplant at the end of September this year.โ€

The music legend, who was inducted in the Rock and Roll Hall of fame in 1989, said that a donor has been found.

This correspondent is a guest contributor to The Washington Informer.

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