"Ribbon in the Sky" is a song by American singer Stevie Wonder. The ballad was first featured on the 1982 greatest hits album, Stevie Wonder's Original Musiquarium I, and charted at No. 54 pop and No. 10 R&B in the US when it was released.[1]
In February 1983, Wonder was nominated for a Grammy Award for Best Male R&B Vocal Performance at the 25th Grammy Awards.
In 2009, Essence magazine included the song in their list of the "25 Best Slow Jams of All Time".[2]
Wonder performed a version of the song at Whitney Houston's funeral on February 18, 2012
It has been covered by Dennis Brown, Intro, Boyz II Men, 2 Men 4 Soul, Lloydie Crucial and Ivete Sangalo,[3] as well as being sampled by Will Smith and featured in Diana Ross's 1983 Central Park Concert (released 2012). The intro is also sampled in Jamal's "Keep It Real".
