Forbidden Lover is a studio album by American jazz singer Nancy Wilson released by Columbia Records in 1987. The album reached No. 8 on the Billboard Traditional Jazz Albums chart.
Forbidden Lover was produced by Dr. George Butler. Artists such as Branford Marsalis, Robert Brookins and Paul Jackson Jr. appeared on the album.
William Ruhlmann of Allmusic in a 3/5 stars review, remarked "Billed as the 50th album by this 50-year-old singer, Nancy Wilson's Forbidden Lover is an attempt to contemporize her sound, with arrangements that recall Luther Vandross and the Earth, Wind & Fire horn section...But Wilson the jazz-R&B song stylist gets lost on most of these recordings."
Robert K. Oermann of USA Today also ranked this album at No. 31 on his list of 1987's top 50 R&B albums.
Wilson earned a Grammy nomination in the category of Best R&B Vocal Performance, Female for her performance on the album.