Like Lionel Richie, the late, great Luther Vandross was both a charismatic singer who alternated from tender, lovely ballads to fun, danceable lite-funk tunes with ease and a tremendously talented songwriter and producer as well, one who even such iconic artists as Aretha Franklin and Dionne Warwick recruited to their cause in the early ‘80s (Vandross even giving the Queen of Soul her first Top 40 hit in over six years with 1982’s “Jump to It.”) And, like Richie, Vandross has tended to be somewhat overlooked by critics merely because he didn’t aspire to be an artistic revolutionary figure akin to Stevie Wonder or Prince or Marvin Gaye.
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