Stevie Wonder : Innervisions

A BOY IS BORN IN 

HARD TIME MISSISSIPPI

SURROUNDED BY

FOUR WALLS THAT

 AIN'T SO PRETTY

 Innervisions 

is the sixteenth

 studio album

 by American singer,

 songwriter, 

and musician

 Stevie Wonder

released on 

August 3, 1973,

 by Tamla, 

a subsidiary of 

Motown Records. 

A landmark recording of

 Wonder's 

"classic period",

 the album has been

 regarded as completing

 his transition from the

 "Little Stevie Wonder"

 known for 

romantic ballads

 into a more 

musically mature, 

conscious,

 and grown-up artist. 

On the album, 

Wonder continued to 

experiment with

 the revolutionary

 T.O.N.T.O.

 (The Original New Timbral Orchestra) 

synthesizer system 

developed by 

Malcolm Cecil 

and

 Robert Margouleff, 

and

 Innervisions

 became hugely influential 

on the future sound

 of commercial

 soul and black music.

The album peaked at 

number four 

on the

 Billboard Top LPs & Tapes chart 

and number one 

on the Billboard 

Soul LPs chart, 

eventually finishing at 

number four 

on the magazine's 

Top Pop Albums chart

 for 1974. 

At the

 16th Grammy Awards, 

it won Album of the Year 

and Best Engineered

 Non-Classical Recording, 

while

 "Living for the City"

 won Best R&B Song. 

Innervisions

 is widely considered by fans, 

critics, 

and colleagues

 to be one of 

Wonder's finest works 

and one of the

 greatest albums

 of all time.

 It was ranked

 number 34

 on

 Rolling Stone's list of

"The 500 Greatest Albums of All Time"

 in 2020 

and was 

inducted into

 the Grammy

 Hall of Fame

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