"I Want To Know What Love Is" is a 1984 power ballad by British American band Foreigner and is the leading single from their fifth album Agent Provocateur. It topped the charts in Australia, Canada, Ireland, New Zealand, Norway, Sweden, the United Kingdom and the United States and was nominated for a Grammy Award in 1986. It has been covered by Tina Arena, Wynonna Judd and Mariah Carey. The Mariah Carey version topped the single charts in Brazil.