I Wanna Love Somebody

I Wanna Love Somebody is the first album in the discography of the singer Angela Bofill that she released after she left Capitol Records in 1988. She wrote and composed five of its ten selections herself, collaborating on three of the other five with the author-composer of the remaining two selections, Eve Nelson.

I Wanna Love Somebody
Studio album by Angela Bofill
Released	February 9, 1993
Recorded	1992
Genre	Soul, R&B
Length	49:12
Label	Jive
Producer	Eve Nelson; Preston Glass on "Always a Part of Me"
Angela Bofill chronology
Intuition (1988) I Wanna Love Somebody (1993) Love in Slow Motion (1996)

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Track listing

1. "I Wanna Love Somebody" (Eve Nelson) – 4:06
2. "I Wonder" (Eve Nelson) – 5:33
3. "Never Too Much" (Angela Bofill, Eve Nelson) – 4:30
4. "Heavenly Love" (Angela Bofill, Eve Nelson) – 5:14
5. "Always a Part of Me" (Steven Birch/Preston Glass/Darrell Smith) – 5:12
6. "Te Amo" (Angela Bofill/Eve Nelson) – 4:49
7. "Essence of My Light" (Eve Nelson) – 5:12
8. "I Still Believe in Love" (Angela Bofill/Ann Curless/Eve Nelson) – 4:50
9. "We Almost Had It Right" (Eve Nelson) – 3:42
10. "Amor Celestial" [Heavenly Love, Spanish Version] – 5:10

Personnel

• Adam Kudzin – engineer, assistant engineer
• Amy Keyes – background vocals
• Andy Snitzer – saxophone
• Angela Bofill – vocals, background vocals
• Brenda White – background vocals
• Carl Burnett – guitar
• Chris Botti – trumpet
• Cindy Mizelle – background vocals
• Darrell Smith – composer, lyricist
• Derek Jordan – background vocals
• Don Tittle – producer, engineer
• Duane Sexton – engineer, assistant engineer
• Earl Gardner – trumpet
• Eve Nelson – piano, arranger, composer
• Francisco Centeno – bass guitar, background vocals
• Gerard Julien – engineer, assistant engineer
• Grey Oscar Rivera – composer, lyricist
• Hugh Elliott – drums
• Jeff Mironov – guitar
• Joe Hornof – programming, drum sounds
• Joe Hornoff – synthesizer, programming, sound effects
• Kenny MacDougald – drums
• Kirk Whalum – saxophone
• Marc Shulman – guitar
• Michael Dumas – engineer, assistant engineer
• Neil Johnson – guitar
• Nigel Green – engineer, mixing
• Paulette McWilliams – background vocals
• Pete Christensen – background vocals, engineer, mixing
• Preston Glass – percussion, arranger, keyboards
• Rob Mullins – keyboards
• Scott Totten – guitar
• Steven Birch – composer, programming, lyricist
• Tao Gutierrez – percussion
• Tom Coyne – mastering
• Werner Vana Gierig – piano
• Wilton Felder – bass guitar