唱片：Dance With My Father
艺人：Luther Vandross
风格：R&B,Urban
厂牌：J-Records
时间：June 10, 2003
Review by David Jeffries
这是Luther Vandross所有唱片中的第一张Billboard 200排行榜的冠军专辑。在专辑中Luther Vandross亲自创作了大部分歌曲，并担任监制，制作人。这位R&B大师的深厚功力再一次得到了证明，他的音乐毫不夸张的说是完美嗓音和诗意歌词的完美结合，而且他还拉来了Richard Marx，Destiny s Child的Beyonce Knowles等歌星来协助录音。
专辑第一首歌就让R&B后生们领教了这位老将的实力，节奏，嗓音，一切都是那么的和谐。《The Closer I Get to You》则是Luther Vandross与Destiny s Child合唱团Beyonce Knowles亲昵而深情的对唱，其中Beyonce Knowles的演唱也得到了这位R&B巨匠的称赞。《Dance With My Father》更是充满了Luther Vandross对父亲的纪念。《She Saw You》中引入了RAP的节奏，结合以吉他的伴奏，讲述了一个关于出卖的故事。
这张近70分钟的专辑证明Luther Vandross依然保持了一贯的高水准，作为制作人，专辑里歌曲顺序的编排也很合理，听起来让人感到十分的舒服。这张专辑的歌曲与新生代的R&B作品相比，节奏略慢，但仍能十分明显的感觉到Luther Vandross的未随时间的推移而褪色的嗓音及才华。
歌手介绍
Luther Vandross于1951年4月20日出生于美国纽约最北部的Bronx区，作为最伟大的黑人男歌手之一，拥有超过两千万张的唱片销售记录，被他富有魔力的嗓音所征服的听众数以亿计。在R&B音乐这个年轻人的世界里，Luther Vandross称得上是大器晚成，直到他三十岁时才发行了第一张专辑《Never Too Much》，之后便一发不可收，之后的十三张专辑都达到了白金销量，被称为是80年代R&B音乐三巨头之一，另两人是鼎鼎大名的Stevie Wonder和Michael Jackson。
Luther Vandross不仅是一名出色而成功的歌手，而且他还是一名成功的词曲作者和唱片制作人，他参与了Stevie Wonder，Lionel Richie，Whitney Houston, Aretha Franklin, Dionne Warwick和Cheryl Lynn等著名歌星专辑的录制，并与Mariah Carey等歌星有合作。
在第33，34，39届格莱美奖中三次获得最佳R&B男歌手奖，歌曲《Power Of Love/Love Power》还获得了第34届格莱美最佳R&B歌曲奖。在他近三十年的音乐生涯中，共出版了17张专辑，15张精选，以及数十首单曲，2003年6月10日发行了他的最新专辑《Dance With My Father》。
专辑曲目：
1. If I Didn t Know Better
2. Think About You
3. If It Ain t One Thing
4. Buy Me a Rose
5. The Closer I Get to You
6. Lovely Day
7. Dance With My Father
8. She Saw You
9. Apologize
10. Hit It Again
11. Right in the Middle
12. Once Were Lovers
13.Say Yeah
14. They Said You Needed Me
Dance With My Father
Back when I was a child,
Before life removed all the innocence,
My father would lift me high,
And dance with my mother and me,
And then...
Spin me around til I fell asleep,
Then up the stairs he would carry me,
And I knew for sure I was loved
If I could get another chance,
Another walk, another dance with him,
I d play a song that would never ever end
How I d love love love...
To dance with my father again.
When I and my mother would disagree,
To get my way I would run from her to him.
He d make me laugh just to comfort me, 。
Then finally make me do just what my momma said.
Later that night when I was asleep,
He left a dollar under my sheet.
Never dreamed that he would be gone from me.
If I could steal one final glance,
One final step,
One final dance with him,
I d play a song that would never ever end
Cause I d love love love...
To dance with my father again.
Sometimes I d listen outside her door
And I d hear how my momma cried for him
I pray for her even more than me...
I pray for her even more than me.....
I know I m praying for much too much,
But could you send back,
The only man she loved.
I know you don t do it usually,
But dear Lord she s dying,
To dance with my father again.
Every night I fall asleep
And this is all I ever dream...
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