What A World For The Lonely Kind: Luther Vandross
Barney Hoskyns, Times, The, 28 March 1989
LUTHER VANDROSS is the pre-eminent mainstream soul performer of the 1980s. As a singer, songwriter and producer he is – with the possible exception of Anita Baker – simply in a class of his own.
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