![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() His sold-out concert was electrifying, and one critic declared that Luther Vandross "represents something very special indeed". His first recordings were not easy to find, but bootlegged tapes of his music were being freely passed from hand to hand.Ī friend dubbed a tape for me and I was hooked, but I had to wait until 1983 when he made his long-awaited debut in Britain to see him live. There was no reckless talk of his replacing the ruling triumvirate of Marvin Gaye, Teddy Pendergrass and Barry White, but he was being spoken of as somebody who perhaps belonged in their company. I n the early 1980s the word on the street was that there was "a new guy" on the music scene.
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