User-contributed text is available under the Creative Commons By-SA License and may also be available under the GNU FDL. Luther Vandross is an icon still today in the world of R&B and American Soul music. He won four Grammy awards in 2004 including the Grammy Award for Song of the Year for the track 'Dance With My Father,' co-written with Richard Marx. Luther suffered a stroke in 2003, from which he never really recovered, and he passed away on 1st of July 2005.ĭuring his career, Vandross sold 25 million albums and won eight Grammy awards including Best Male R&B Vocal Performance four times. It was an ongoing battle with his weight that may have ultimately proved his undoing. In the 90's he was probably more famous for duets with Janet Jackson and Mariah Carey, among others.
TOP LUTHER VANDROSS SONGS PLUS
In the 80's Luther became an R&B icon with such releases as 'Never too Much', 'Power of Love', 'If only for One Night', 'Here and Now', plus many others. In the 80's a vocalist on early Change singles (Searching) continuing a solo career that perhaps never realized its true potential.
Some of them even rank among his best work.įor Vandross fans who still have his elegant renditions of "Superstar," "Creepin'" and "A House Is Not a Home" spinning in their heads decades later, I interrupt that program for these equally fierce originals.ġ. Although he's best known today as arguably R&B's greatest-ever interpreter of song, he had his biggest hits with singles he wrote and produced himself. Regardless, few Best New Artist nominees have gone on to leave as large a musical footprint as Vandross, who died in 2005 at age 54. Okay, well maybe there's no comparison between Rock and Roll Hall of Fame inductees the Pretenders and Change (of which Vandross was never an official permanent member), but the point is that, unlike Easton, Vandross was a seasoned artist, hardly "new," in 1981. The Best of Luther Vandross, The Best of Love, Epic, 1989. His winning the Best New Artist Grammy in 1982 would have been a little like Chrissie Hynde finally ditching the Pretenders moniker, releasing a solo album under her own name in 2013, and winning Best New Artist next year. In 1994 Vandross released the album Songs, which consisted of remakes of hits from the past. My justification was that by 1981, Vandross already had been kicking around the industry for the better part of a decade, as an esteemed songwriter, a back-up singer (for David Bowie, among others), and vocalist for at least two groups (Luther and Change, on whose 1980 album he sang two tracks) before he got around to releasing his debut album, 1981's Never Too Much.
This matching folio to Luthers greatest hits album celebrates six consecutive Pla. Ever since I made the bold assertion a couple of weeks ago that Sheena Easton deserved the Best New Artist Grammy she won in 1982, I've been kind of agonizing over it. Read 'The Best Of Luther Vandross (Songbook)' by Luther Vandross available from Rakuten Kobo.
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