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Sunlight is an album by Herbie Hancock. It features Hancock’s vocals through a Sennheiser VSM-201 vocoder.

The AllMusic review by Richard S. Ginell gave the album 3 stars and stated:”Herbie Hancock’s American jazz-funk records in the 1970s grew gradually more commercial, less stimulating, and crucially, less truly funky with each release, even as his equipment rack grew larger. … For much of the album, he seems most interested in establishing a new career as an electronic vocalist. …”

Track listing:
All tracks composed by Herbie Hancock, except where indicated.

Side one

“I Thought It Was You” (Hancock, Melvin Ragin, Jeffrey Cohen) – 8:56
“Come Running to Me” (lyrics: Allee Willis) – 8:25

Side two

“Sunlight” – 7:12
“No Means Yes” – 6:21
“Good Question” – 8:32

Personnel:
Herbie Hancock – keyboards, synthesizers, lead and background vocals (through vocoder) (1–3), string, brass and woodwind arrangements
Patrick Gleeson – additional synthesizers (5)
Bennie Maupin – soprano saxophone solo (3)
Wah Wah Watson, Ray Parker Jr. – guitar (1, 3)
Byron Miller (1), Paul Jackson (2–4), Jaco Pastorius (5) – electric bass
Leon “Ndugu” Chancler (1), James Levi (2, 3), Harvey Mason, Sr. (4), Tony Williams (5) – drums
Raul Rekow (exc. 3), Bill Summers (exc. 1) – percussion
Baba Duru – tabla (2)
Bobby Shew, Maurice Spears, Robert O’Bryant, Garnett Brown – brass (exc. 4)
Ernest J. Watts, Fred Jackson, Jr., Jack Nimitz, David Willard Riddles – woodwind (2, 5)
Terry Adams, Roy Malan, Nathan Rubin, Linda Wood, Emily VanValkenburgh – strings (2)

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Released: 1978
Length” 39:26
Label” Columbia
Producer: Herbie Hancock, David Rubinson