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Perfect Angel
Perfect Angel is the second studio album by American singer Minnie Riperton, released in 1974 by Epic Records. The album contains the biggest hit of Riperton's career, "Lovin' You", which topped the U.S. Pop Singles chart for one week in early April 1975.
Background.
In 1973, a college intern for Epic Records found Riperton in semi-retirement. She had become a homemaker and a mother of two in Florida. After he heard a demo of the song "Lie In The World
recorded with Wonder on electric piano and synthesizers. Rudolph supplied the chirping birds from a sound effects reel. 
Commercial reception.
Epic released "Perfect Angel" in August 1974, one month after Wonder’s "Fulfillingness' First Finale" hit the record stores. While the album represented Riperton’s eclectic musical directions, it posed a marketing dilemma with the label: is she a rock, soul or pop singer? As for radio, "Reasons", the first single, was embraced by the rock stations, but