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‘Dance With My Father’ Certified Gold This Day In 2004
“Dance with My Father” earned Luther his 20th Gold award from the RIAA on this day in 2004! What’s your favorite song from this album? Listen Here:
Luther Vandross Won Seventh American Music Award This Day In 2003
Luther took home the American Music Award for Favorite Soul/R&B Male Artist on this night in 2003. It was his seventh and final win in that category across three decades–more than any other artist. Watch Here:
Rolling Stone Revisits Luther’s Iconic Performance Of ‘A House Is Not A Home’
Rolling Stone has taken a look back at Luther’s iconic performance of “A House Is Not A Home” at the NAACP Image Awards in tribute to Dionne Warwick.
“It’s remarkable the way Vandross is able to change the structure of a familiar song. He’s such an adept singer he can insert wildly long ad-libs — ‘goodnight’ becomes ‘goodnight, good morning, good afternoon, hello, bye-bye baby, yeah yeah yeah’ — and still find his way back to the beat. His voice is flexible enough to splinter a single ‘no’ into six or eight parts and transform ‘love’ into a colorful spray of falsetto. Many singers today have only worked on their high notes, but Vandross is equally impressive on the low end of his register, scraping the bottom in the line ‘even when there’s nothing there but gloom’ to emphasize his devastation.”
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RIP To The True Queen Of Soul
RIP to the true Queen of Soul. Thank you for inspiring the world with your beautiful voice and spirit Aretha Franklin.