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A Time to Love (2005)

Where the lyrics of A Time to Love take you, and where it was really made.

Planned for completion in 2004, this album reached stores only in October 2005, after its digital release had already come out.

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Released about ten years after the previous album, Conversation Peace
Release slipped through 2004 and into 2005 after repeated delays
First single issued in April 2005: So What the Fuss, with Prince on guitar and En Vogue on backing vocals
Follow-up singles included Positivity with his daughter Aisha Morris, From the Bottom of My Heart, and Shelter in the Rain
Shelter in the Rain pays tribute to his first wife, singer Syreeta Wright
Wright died of cancer the year before the album was released
Wonder said Wright would have sung lead on the track had she lived

1	If Your Love Cannot Be Moved	6:12
2	Sweetest Somebody I Know	4:31
3	Moon Blue	6:45
4	From the Bottom of My Heart	5:12
5	Please Don't Hurt My Baby	4:40
6	How Will I Know	3:39
7	My Love Is on Fire	6:16
8	Passionate Raindrops	4:50
9	Tell Your Heart I Love You	4:30
10	True Love	3:32
11	Shelter In the Rain	4:19
12	So What the Fuss	5:04
13	Can't Imagine Love Without You	3:45
14	Positivity	5:07
15	A Time to Love	9:17

Stevland Hardaway Morris, known as Stevie Wonder, was born May 13, 1950 in Saginaw, Michigan, and became blind shortly after birth.
He signed with Motown's Tamla label at age 11 in 1961, receiving the name Little Stevie Wonder.
His single "Fingertips" topped the Billboard Hot 100 when he was 13, the youngest solo artist ever to do so.

Music of My Mind and Talking Book (1972) marked the start of his classic period, moving away from the Motown sound toward synthesizer- and keyboard-driven music.
Innervisions, Fulfillingness' First Finale and Songs in the Key of Life (1973–1976) won three consecutive Grammy Awards for Album of the Year, and he is the only artist to have done so.
In the 1980s he campaigned to make Martin Luther King Jr.'s birthday a federal holiday and scored several number-one hits, including "Ebony and Ivory" and "I Just Called to Say I Love You".
He has sold more than 100 million records and won 25 Grammy Awards, the most by a male solo artist.

Received with generally positive reviews despite several delays during its release year
Its release was postponed several times over the course of the year
Digital release came first on 27 September 2005, followed by the CD on 18 October 2005
The album debuted in the chart's top ten, at number 5 on the US Billboard 200
Critics' reception is summarized as broadly positive in the sources
Stevie Wonder's first studio album in roughly ten years, a long gap after Conversation Peace

US Billboard 200: debut at number 5, selling 121,000 copies in its first week
Certified gold by the Recording Industry Association of America on 15 December 2005
Nielsen SoundScan counted 469,000 copies sold in the United States as of August 2007
Won the Grammy for Best Male Pop Vocal Performance in 2005 with From the Bottom of My Heart
That Grammy was Wonder's fourth win in the category

Shelter in the Rain honours Syreeta Wright, and Wonder said she would have sung lead on it had she lived.
Positivity includes a brief mention of singer Minnie Riperton.
The album was released digitally on iTunes Music Store on 27 September 2005, three weeks before its CD release.
Prince played guitar on So What the Fuss, the first single issued in April 2005.