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Featured African American   Artist: Luther Vandross 1955-2005 (His songs have charmed the hearts of many and his music will live on in Our Hearts.) Vandross was born to two singers in New York on April 20, 1951, and developed his velvety tenor voice at a young age. He began his career in the '70s, singing for commercials and as a backup singer for Barbra Streisand and Donna Summer. He also wrote songs for David Bowie and the Broadway musical "The Wiz" before his group, Change, debuted in 1980 with the mild hit "The Glow of Love." In 1981, Vandross signed with Epic and released his debut album, Never Too Much, which topped the R&B charts and sold two million copies. The title track was also an R&B number one hit single and reached the pop Top 40. Vandross went on to produce albums for Aretha Franklin and other female singers, while maintaining his own career through the '80s. His albums Forever, for Always, for Love (1982), Busy Body (1983), The Night I Fell in Love (1985), Give Me the Reason (1986), and Any Love (1988) were all million-sellers that spawned major R&B hits, but Vandross' pop success was spotty until 1989, when Epic released The Best of Luther Vandross...The Best of Love, a greatest-hits album containing the new track "Here and Now," which became Vandross' first Top Ten pop hit. That proved his breakthrough, and Vandross' next album, Power of Love (1991), another million-seller, featured two pop hits, "Power of Love/Love Power" and "Don't Want to Be a Fool." Vandross returned to the pop Top Ten in 1992 with "The Best Things in Life Are Free" from the movie Mo' Money, a duet with Janet Jackson. His next album, Never Let Me Go (1993), marked a slight falloff in sales, but Songs (1994), an all-covers album, restored his commercial standing, featuring a gold-selling pop Top Ten remake of "Endless Love," a duet with Mariah Carey. This Is Christmas (1996) and Your Secret Love (1997) were million-sellers. One Night With You: The Best of Love, Vol. 2 (1997) compiled Vandross' hits from 1991 to 1996. He returned in 1998 with I Know. Smooth Love followed two years later and a self-titled release on J Records appeared in spring 2001. In late 2002, Vandross wrote what I consider one of the best songs of his career the song was "Dance With My Father", a bittersweet tribute to Vandross' late father that would become the centerpiece of the singer's next, most personal album. Vandross died at John F. Kennedy Medical Center in Edison, N.J., on July 2, 2005, it was said that he never really recovered from the stroks. The world will forever miss Luthers smooth tones and the music world will never be the same..

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