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Sunday, April 9, 2017

Daily Boom 80's Throwback: Luther Vandross - 'Stop To Love'


"I just wanna be the one that you wanna see
I just wanna have you near me

But you fly away almost everyday
You work a lot but you never stop to love

(Stop) I love you stop (stop)
Come home from the road

(Gotta stop to love)
And let's celebrate (celebrate) the love we got (stop)
Say you're coming home."


Luther Vandross might have one of the most soulful voices to listen to ever. He is quite obviously best remembered for his ballads ("Here and Now", "Superstar", etc.) so I wanted to share something a little different. "Stop To Love" was the first single off of Vandross' fifth album and it was also his first top 20 hit on Billboard's Hot 100 chart. The video shows a fun side to Vandross, one that those cloesest to him often talked about. Sadly, the singer's life was cut short after a massive stroke left him comatose for two months in 2003. While Vandross did recover somewhat he never performed in public again and eventually died in July of 2005.