歌手：luther vandross
2012-12-15、歌谱控、人气:（载入中...）
- 姓名：luther vandross
- 性别：男
- 别名：暂无
- 国籍：美国
- 语言：英语;
- 出生地：美国
- 生日：1951-04-20
- 星座：牡羊座
- 身高：0
- 体重：0
luther vandross简介：Luther Vandross于1951年4月20日出生于美国纽约最北部的Bronx区，作为最伟大的黑人男歌手之一，拥有超过两千万张的唱片销售记录，被他富有魔力的嗓音所征服的听众数以亿计。在R&B音乐这个年轻人的世界里，Luther Vandross称得上是大器晚成，直到他三十岁时才发行了第一张专辑《Never Too Much》，之后便一发不可收，之后的十三张专辑都达到了白金销量，被称为是80年代R&B音乐三巨头之一，另两人是鼎鼎大名的Stevie Wonder和Michael Jackson。 Luther Vandross不仅是一名出色而成功的歌手，而且他还是一名成功的词曲作者和唱片制作人，他参与了Stevie Wonder，Lionel Richie，Whitney Houston, Aretha Franklin, Dionne Warwick和Cheryl Lynn等著名歌星专辑的录制，并与Mariah Carey等歌星有合作。在第33，34，39届格莱美奖中三次获得最佳R&B男歌手奖，歌曲《Power Of Love/Love Power》还获得了第34届格莱美最佳R&B歌曲奖。在他近三十年的音乐生涯中，共出版了17张专辑，15张精选，以及数十首单曲，2003年6月10日发行了他的最新专辑《Dance With My Father》。专辑名：《Dance With My Father》 演唱者：Luther Vandross 发行时间：2003年6月10日 发行公司：J-Records 音乐风格：Urban（城市音乐）, Adult Contemporary（成人时代） [专辑介绍] 这是Luther Vandross所有唱片中的第一张Billboard 200排行榜的冠军专辑。在专辑中Luther Vandross亲自创作了大部分歌曲，并担任监制，制作人。这位R&B大师的深厚功力再一次得到了证明，他的音乐毫不夸张的说是完美嗓音和诗意歌词的完美结合，而且他还拉来了Richard Marx，Destiny's Child的Beyonce Knowles等歌星来协助录音。 专辑第一首歌就让R&B后生们领教了这位老将的实力，节奏，嗓音，一切都是那么的和谐。《The Closer I Get to You》则是Luther Vandross与Destiny's Child合唱团Beyonce Knowles亲昵而深情的对唱，其中Beyonce Knowles的演唱也得到了这位R&B巨匠的称赞。《Dance With My Father》更是充满了Luther Vandross对父亲的纪念。《She Saw You》中引入了RAP的节奏，结合以吉他的伴奏，讲述了一个关于出卖的故事,这张近70分钟的专辑证明Luther Vandross依然保持了一贯的高水准，作为制作人，专辑里歌曲顺序的编排也很合理，听起来让人感到十分的舒服。这张专辑的歌曲与新生代的R&B作品相比，节奏略慢，但仍能十分明显的感觉到Luther Vandross的未随时间的推移而褪色的嗓音及才华。
Luther Vandross was one of the most successful R&B artists of the 1980s and '90s. Not only did he score a series of multi-million-selling albums containing chart-topping hit singles and perform sold-out tours of the U.S. and around the world, but he also took charge of his music creatively, writing or co-writing most of his songs and arranging and producing his records. He also performed these functions for other artists, providing them with hits as well. He was, however, equally well known for his distinctive interpretations of classic pop and R&B songs, reflecting his knowledge and appreciation of the popular music of his youth. Possessed of a smooth, versatile tenor voice, he charmed millions with his romantic music.Vandross was born in New York City on April 20, 1951, and grew up in the Alfred E. Smith housing projects in lower Manhattan. Both of his parents, Luther Vandross, Sr., an upholsterer, and Mary Ida Vandross, a nurse, sang, and they encouraged their children to pursue music as a career. Vandross Sr.'s older sister Patricia Van Dross was an early member of the Crests in the mid-'50s (appearing on their early singles, but leaving before they achieved success with "Sixteen Candles"), and Vandross himself began playing the piano at the age of three and took lessons at five, although he remained a largely self-taught musician. After the death of his father in 1959 when he was eight years old, he was raised by his mother, who moved the family to the Bronx. While attending William Howard Taft High School, he formed a vocal group, Shades of Jade, with friends Carlos Alomar, Robin Clark, Anthony Hinton, Diane Sumler, and Fonzi Thornton. All five, along with 11 other teenage performers, were also part of a musical theater workshop, Listen, My Brother, organized by the Apollo Theater in Harlem that recorded a single, "Listen, My Brother"/"Only Love Can Make a Better World," and appeared on the initial episodes of the children's television series Sesame Street in 1969. After graduating from high school that year, Vandross attended Western Michigan University, but dropped out after a year and returned home. He spent the next few years working at odd jobs while trying to break into the music business.In 1973, Vandross got two of his compositions, "In This Lovely Hour" and "Who's Gonna Make It Easier for Me," recorded by Delores Hall on her album Hall-Mark, singing the latter song with her as a duet. In 1974, though uncredited, he sang background vocals on Maggie Bell's Queen of the Night, and in August of the same year Carlos Alomar, who had become David Bowie's guitarist, invited him to attend a Bowie recording session at Sigma Sound Studios in Philadelphia. He quickly became more than an observer, singing background vocals, serving as a vocal arranger, and co-writing the song "Fascination" with Bowie. The session resulted in the album Young Americans, released in March 1975, and Vandross also went on tour with Bowie in September 1974 as both backup singer and opening act. Meanwhile, Vandross' 1972 composition "Everybody Rejoice (A Brand New Day)" was featured in the Broadway musical The Wiz, which opened a run of 1,672 performances on January 5, 1975. (It was later made into a 1978 film.) The show starred Stephanie Mills, who used Vandross as a background singer on her 1975 album Movin' in the Right Direction. (He also sang, uncredited, on Gary Glitter's self-titled 1975 album.)Through Bowie, Vandross met Bette Midler, who hired him to arrange vocals for her Broadway revue Bette Midler's Clams on the Half Shell, which played ten weeks at the Minskoff Theater starting on April 14, 1975. Midler also introduced him to her record producer, Arif Mardin, at Atlantic Records, and Vandross began to get steady work as a background singer and vocal arranger. In 1976, he appeared on albums by Midler (Songs for the New Depression), the Brecker Brothers Band (Back to Back), Roy Buchanan (A Street Called Straight), Andy Pratt (Resolution), and Judy Collins (Bread and Roses). He also put together a vocal quintet called Luther, consisting of himself, former Shades of Jade members Anthony Hinton and Diane Sumler, Theresa V. Reed, and Christine Wiltshire, which signed to Atlantic's Cotillion Records subsidiary. Their self-titled debut album was released in June 1976. It did not sell well enough to reach the charts, but the tracks "It's Good for the Soul," "Funky Music (Is a Part of Me)," and "The Second Time Around" reached the R&B Top 40. Reed and Wiltshire dropped out, and the remaining trio made a second Luther album, This Close to You (April 1977), with Vandross given top billing, while Hinton and Sumler were credited as featured soloists. The title song reached the R&B charts, but that wasn't enough to keep Cotillion from dropping the group, which then broke up. (Vandross acquired the rights to the Luther recordings and saw to it that they remained out of print.)Meanwhile, Vandross continued doing sessions. In 1977, he appeared on albums by Nils Lofgren (I Came to Dance), Geils (aka the J. Geils Band; Monkey Island), the Average White Band and Ben E. King (Benny and Us), Andy Pratt (Shiver in the Night), Ringo Starr (Ringo the 4th), and Chic (Chic). He also entered the lucrative world of writing and singing commercial jingles, and before long was the musical voice of everything
