Where I’m Coming From is the fifteenth album released by Stevie Wonder. It was released on April 12, 1971. It was also distributed through Motown Records. All nine songs on the album were written by Wonder and Motown singer-songwriter Syreeta Wright, his first wife.
It was also the last album produced under his first contract with Motown Records due to artist freedom differences.
Yeah, we did Where I’m Coming From … that was kinda premature to some extent, but I wanted to express myself. A lot of it now I’d probably remix. But “Never Dreamed You’d Leave in Summer” came from that album, and “If You Really Love Me” … but it’s nothing like the things I write now.
— Stevie Wonder, Rolling Stone, 1973
Where I’m Coming From was frankly, not a success – partly he feels, because it featured songs more or less exclusively about love and because he feels. “It wasn’t put together properly” – in respect of running order.
— From Stevie Wonder’s Blues & Soul profile, 1973