(ThyBlackMan.com) Few voices in R&B history can match the velvet smoothness and emotive power of Luther Vandross. A master of ...

1 on the Billboard Hot 100 this week, it joins the list of songs that have incorporated people’s names in chart-topping titles. The song is, of course, a tribute to the late Luther Vandross ...

Kendrick Lamar and SZA’s “Luther” leads the Billboard Hot 100 songs chart for a fifth total and consecutive week.

For most of his career, Luther Vandross cut a puzzling figure. A charming romantic whose songs were so celebrated ... many years to score a crossover pop hit, to break out of yet another box.

Oddly enough for a tribute song with such a title, as fellow longtime “Ask Billboard” contributor Pablo Nelson notes, the name Luther isn ... pal,” Marx said of Vandross, who passed ...

Singing the hits ... music icon Luther Vandross. Their takeaway? “We’ve never heard anyone who literally sounds just like the record.” Williams agreed. He hopes his Vandross songs sound ...

In 2022 FiL reached the finals of the ITV show Starstruck FiL Straughan is quite possibly the best Luther Vandross tribute vocalist ... into the energies of the song in the same manner that ...

The song, a nod to R&B legend Luther ... Vandross was nominated for best new artist at the 1982 ceremony, but lost to Scottish pop singer Sheena Easton (who got off to a faster start, with a No. 1 ...