You Are The Sunshine Of My Life

About You Are The Sunshine Of My Life

"You Are the Sunshine of My Life" is a 1973 pop single released by Stevie Wonder. The first two lines of the song are sung, not by Wonder, but by James Gilstrap and Lani Groves. The single version of the song differed from the album version, adding horns to the mix. The song became Wonder's third number-one pop single on the Billboard Hot 100 chart and his first number-one on the adult contemporary chart. It also won Wonder a Grammy Award for Best Male Pop Vocal Performance. .

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About this song

Credited to

Stevie Wonder

Album

Talking Book · Track 1 of 10 · Opens the album

Released

October 28, 1972

Duration

2:58

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558,671 listeners on Last.fm

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From the album: Talking Book