Stevie Wonder says he intends to release at least two albums next year, and he’s even already getting started on a third. The announcement comes from a recent Billboard report stating that the 63-year-old soul artist has found a sudden resurgence from his “children, family, change, growth [and] heartbreaks.”
The two albums, titled When the World Began and Ten Billion Hearts, are his first since he put out A Time to Love back in 2005. Wonder added that he will incorporate elements of hip-hop to his upcoming releases as well.
“I listen a lot to rap,” Wonder said. “I’m inspired to take it, to use it in another way, to get the message across.” The two new albums may not consist entirely of new material, however. Wonder told Rolling Stone back in June that his new albums will have “old material, but doing it a different way.”
“I’m going to do about three or four new songs,” he said earlier this year. “We did “Isn’t She Lovely” with the orchestra and I wrote another verse to it. And we did “I Just Called to Say I Love You” — myself and Take 6 with the orchestra.”
One of his three potential albums could even consist entirely of gospel compositions; Wonder promised his mother Lula, who died in 2006, that he would one day dedicate a gospel-themed album to her memory.
“I might sing a gospel song in Arabic or do something in Hebrew. I want to mix it up and do it differently than one might imagine,” he said. “Obviously the good word at the end of the day, it’s not about the religion, it’s about the relationship. And I think we all need to check our relationship.”
Wonder is expected to perform his 1976 classic Songs In the Key of Life in full for the first time ever at his annual charity concert in Los Angeles this December.
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