“Ribbon In The Sky” by Stevie Wonder

"Ribbon in the Sky" first surfaced on Stevie Wonder's Original Musiquarium I, the 1982 hits collection, and it's Wonder at his most tender, a slow, starry-eyed ballad he made almost single-handed. He wrote it, produced it, sang it, and played the piano, the synthesizer and the drums, with Ben Bridges adding acoustic guitar.

It reached 54 on the US pop chart, 21 on the adult contemporary chart and 10 on the R&B chart, got to 45 in the UK, and in February 1983 earned him a Grammy nod in the Best Male R&B Vocal Performance category. Essence put it on its 2009 list of the greatest slow jams, and Wonder sang it at Whitney Houston's funeral in 2012.

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