Stevie Wonder released Songs in the Key of Life in 1976.
The album arrived on September 28, 1976, through Motown Records. It was Wonder’s eighteenth studio album and followed a remarkably successful creative period that included Music of My Mind, Talking Book, Innervisions, and Fulfillingness’ First Finale.
Songs in the Key of Life was issued as a double album with a four-song bonus EP titled A Something Extra. Its broad musical scope covered love, family, social conditions, childhood, and urban life, with songs such as “Sir Duke,” “I Wish,” and “Isn’t She Lovely.”
The album is sometimes confused with Wonder’s earlier Grammy-winning releases because it belongs to the same celebrated run of 1970s work. Its release year, 1976, places it at the end of that period and marks one of Motown’s defining album events.