Stevie Wonder Performs With Alicia Keys; Receives Billboard Icon Award

Before he was honored with this year's Billboard Icon Award, the legendary Stevie Wonder closed the 2012 Billboard Music Awards performances with a grand collaboration alongside Alicia Keys.

Keys joined Wonder on stage for a set which included his hits "Higher Ground" and "Overjoyed," before performing a stripped-down version of her hit with Jay-Z, "Empire State of Mind."

Alicia Keys took a moment between their performance to honor Wonder with the Billboard Icon Award. Wonder follows in the footsteps of Neil Diamond, who was given the Icon Award at the 2011 ceremony.

Wonder continued by performing his new single, "Ten Billion Hearts," from his upcoming album of the same name. Last month, Wonder serenaded President Barack Obama and an intimate crowd with "Ten Billion Hearts" at a private fundraiser at the San Francisco home of billionaire Marc Benioff, CEO of Salesforce.com, according to USA Today.

After Wonder closed the show with "Superstition," Wonder stopped through the Billboard Music Award press room to announce that while working on his upcoming album, he's also working on a record label of his own, according to Billboard Senior Editor Gail Mitchell.