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"Born \nApril 20th, 1951 (died July 1st, 2005)\nKey Tracks \n\"Never Too Much,\" \"Superstar,\" \"A House Is Not a Home\"\nInfluenced \nAlicia Keys, John Legend\n\nNo singer made the Top 40 sound so intimate \u2014 often painfully so \u2014 as Luther Vandross. \"Singing allows me to express all the mysteries hidden inside,\" he once said. Vandross grew up worshiping at the altar of Aretha Franklin, Dionne Warwick and Diana Ross, then labored throughout the Seventies singing everything from Burger King commercials to sessions with David Bowie (on Young Americans), before emerging as the dominant R&amp;B vocalist of his era. His warm, rich singing on hits like \"Never Too Much\" defined soul during the years between disco and hip-hop, influencing a generation of vocalists \u2014 including Mariah Carey, who was petrified to duet with Vandross on a cover of \"Endless Love\" in 1994. \"It was intimidating to stand next to him,\" she says. \"Luther was incomparable \u2014 his voice was velvety, smooth, airy, with an unmistakable tone.\" \n"^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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