| Conversation Peace | ||||
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| Released | March 21, 1995 | |||
| Recorded | 1993–1995 | |||
| Genre | R&B | |||
| Length | 73:32 | |||
| Label | Motown | |||
| Producer | Stevie Wonder | |||
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Conversation Peace is the 22nd album released by American musician Stevie Wonder, on the Motown label in 1995. The album was Wonder's first full-length non-soundtrack studio album since 1987's Characters. This album yielded the hits "For Your Love" (a Grammy winner for Wonder for Best R&B Male Vocal Performance) and the reggae-flavored "Tomorrow Robins Will Sing". This album also saw Wonder reuniting with Robert Margouleff, who assisted during Wonder's "classic period" from 1972 to 1974.
Wonder wrote about 40 songs in 1993 after being invited to stay for six weeks in Ghana by President Jerry John Rawlings. A number of these songs were eventually shaped into album form.[1][2] Motown announced in August 1993 that Conversation Peace would be released later that year;[3] however, Wonder continued to work on the album through 1994 until its release in March 1995, when Vibe magazine reported that the album had been in development "off and on for at least the past four" years. A circulating outtake from these sessions, "Ms and Mr Little Ones", was later released on Natural Wonder (1995).[4]
- ^ Brown, Jeremy K. (2010). Stevie Wonder: Musician. Infobase. p. 79. ISBN 9781438134222.
- ^ Werner, Craig (2007). Higher Ground: Stevie Wonder, Aretha Franklin, Curtis Mayfield, and the Rise and Fall of American Soul. Random House. p. 269. ISBN 9780307420879.
- ^ Jeffrey, Don (August 14, 1993). "Motown Adds Might to Polygram Roster". Billboard. Vol. 105, no. 33. Nielsen Business Media. p. 82. ISSN 0006-2510.
- ^ "Revolutions: Stevie Wonder – Conversation Peace – Motown". Vibe. 3 (3). Vibe Media Group: 98. March 1995. ISSN 1070-4701.