Stevie Wonder returns with a new album after more than 20 years, featuring 4 tracks from the “Songs In The Key Of Life” era

Stevie Wonder is preparing to return with a new album of original material, his first in over two decades. The American musician announced “Through The Eyes Of Wonder”, expected in 2027, breaking the news during a performance in Los Angeles. “I'll be releasing ‘Through The Eyes Of Wonder’ next year. I'll also be adding four songs I was working on back in the days of ‘Songs In The Key Of Life‘”, Wonder said from the stage, without offering any further details for now about the tracklist or the recording sessions.

The album will thus put an end to a long recording hiatus: Wonder's last studio album, “A Time To Love”, dates back to 2005 and was released by Motown. By the time the new record comes out, 22 years will have passed.
Particularly significant is the recovery of the four songs dating back to the era of “Songs In The Key Of Life”, the masterpiece released in 1976 that is celebrating its fiftieth anniversary this very year. The product of roughly two years of work and made with contributions from more than 130 musicians, including Herbie Hancock and George Benson, the album features some of Wonder's most celebrated songs, from “Sir Duke” to “As” and “Isn't She Lovely”. “Songs In The Key Of Life” has, over time, become one of the essential titles in the history of soul and R&B, as well as one of the musician's biggest commercial successes, achieving diamond certification in the United States.

At 76, Stevie Wonder thus adds a new chapter to a career that began in the early '60s and has been studded with accolades: 25 Grammy Awards, over 100 million records sold worldwide, and an Oscar won in 1985 for “I Just Called To Say I Love You”, honored as best original song for the film “The Woman in Red”.

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