Whitney Houston, Mariah Carey and Celine Dion have all acknowledged the impact that their sometime duet partner had on them. In the process, he transcends the ‘60s divas who inspired him-Dionne Warwick, Diana Ross, Aretha Franklin-to create a model for those who followed. That’s just what he did on his astonishing 1981 cover of “A House Is Not a Home”, transforming the Burt Bacharach/Hal David classic into an acutely personal demonstration of his control, dexterity and expressiveness. A suave yet warmhearted New Yorker who became one of R&B’s beloved balladeers from his solo breakthrough in the early ‘80s to his untimely death in 2005, Vandross was also a vocalist whose understanding of singing as an art form was so profound, he changed notions of what it could be. Luther Vandross was more than just a great singer.
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