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Luther Vandross (April 20, 1951 – July 1, 2005) was an American singer-songwriter and record producer. During his career, Vandross sold over twenty-five million albums and won eight Grammy Awards including Best Male R&B Vocal Performance four times. He won four Grammy Awards in 2004 including the Grammy Award for Song of the Year for the track "Dance with My Father", co-written with Richard Marx.
Luther Vandross was born on April 20, 1951 at Bellevue Hospital in Manhattan, New York City, United States. He was the fourth child and second son to Mary Ida Vandross and Luther Vandross, Sr.
Born on the Lower East Side of Manhattan in New York City in the NYCHA Alfred E. Smith Houses public housing development, Vandross began playing the piano at the age of three. He grew up in a musical family that moved to the Bronx when he was thirteen. His sister, Patricia, sang with the vocal group The Crests, who had a number two hit in 1958 with "16 Candles", though she left the group before the recording. Vandross's father died of diabetes when Vandross was eight years old. Luther Vandross was in a high school group, Shades of Jade, that once played at the Apollo Theater in Harlem. He was also a member of a theater workshop, "Listen My Brother" who released the singles "Only Love Can Make a Better World" and "Listen My Brother", and appeared on the second and fifth episodes of Sesame Street in November 1969.
Another night when I'm on my own
Another night when I've got no place to go
Everybody is trying to be someone
What they see in that I just don't know
So I'll go home instead
Another night in my single bed
'cause I don't want nobody to love
I don't want nobody to love
I don't want nobody to love
To love me, I don't wanna be loved by you
And I don't think I'll ever understand
What makes a woman love some man
And I don't need it anyway
Another night going down the pub
Another night and another pickup job
Gonna go to the disco club
I'm gonna try and pull some fat old slob
Who won't say nothing smart
Just lie there with her legs apart
And I don't want nobody to love
I don't want nobody to love
I don't want nobody to love
To love me, I don't wanna be loved by you
And I don't think I'll ever understand
What makes a woman love some poxy man
And I don't need it anyway
And I don't want nobody
And I don't want nobody
And I don't want nobody to love
And I don't want nobody
And I don't want nobody
And I don't want nobody to love
Nobody to love
Nobody to love
Nobody to love
Nobody to love
Nobody to love