High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! "Here I Stand" is a song by American recording artist Usher. It appears as the seventeenth track from his fifth studio album of the same name, which was released by LaFace Records on May 13, 2008. Penned by the singer with Polow da Don, Adam Blackstone, Gerrell Gaddis, and Dre Vidal, and produced by Dre Vidal, "Here I Stand" is a slow soul ballad and contains similarities to Stevie Wonder`s music. The record received critical acclaim, and was nominated for the Best Male R B Vocal Performance award at the 51st Grammy Awards. Despite going without a single release, "Here I Stand" maintained a position on the United States Hot R B/Hip-Hop Songs for several weeks in 2008–09, reaching the top twenty. It also appeared on the Radio Songs and Bubbling Under Hot 100 Singles charts, peaking at numbers seventy-two and six, respectively.