Not many special guests could overshadow Stevie Wonder at his Baltimore show. But two who could showed up.

Barack and Michelle Obama escorted Wonder, a music legend and member of the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame, on stage Tuesday night at CFG Bank Arena in Baltimore.

Snippets of the show — and the appearance of the Obamas on stage — made it to social media. The legendary musician can be heard making references to the upcoming presidential election on Nov. 5.

“Can y’all say landslide?” Wonder called out to the audience.

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The crowd responded: “Landslide.”

“We’re going to have a landslide,” Wonder said.

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Wonder welcomed the couple to the stage. “We got friends,” Wonder said. “Mr. and Mrs. Obama. I’m so very happy.”

“I’m not singing tonight,” Barack Obama said. “I just wanted to make sure Stevie gets in his chair.”

“Love you, Baltimore,” the former president said.

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The Obamas may have left the singing to Wonder, but did clap along as he performed a song called “Landslide,” sung to the tune of the Martha and the Vandellas’ classic “Heatwave.”

“I’m sick of hearing people be angry and bitter and all that,” Wonder said at the end of the song.

After singing “Landslide,” the Obamas hugged Wonder.

For some added local juice, Baltimore’s own Morgan State University Choir joined Wonder on stage for part of the show.

The appearance of the Obamas took some in the audience by surprise.

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“Look who showed up to the Stevie Wonder show,” DJ Nah FR posted to X Tuesday night, with a picture of the musician and the couple.

The Baltimore stop is part of his “Sing Your Song! As We Fix Our Nation’s Broken Heart” tour, which was purposely designed to start and finish before the presidential election.

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Wonder has won 25 Grammy Awards, and was inducted into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame and 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.