Reed, and Christine Wiltshire, signed to Cotillion Records. The quintet consisted of former Shades of Jade members Anthony Hinton and Diane Sumler, as well as Theresa V. īefore his solo breakthrough, Vandross was part of a singing quintet named Luther in the late 1970s. King, Bette Midler, Diana Ross, Carly Simon, Barbra Streisand, David Bowie, Cat Stevens, Gary Glitter, Ringo Starr, Sister Sledge, and Donna Summer, and for the bands Mandrill, Chic and Todd Rundgren's Utopia. Vandross also sang backing vocals for artists, including Roberta Flack, Chaka Khan, Ben E.
Vandross wrote " Everybody Rejoice" for the 1975 Broadway musical The Wiz. After his song "Funky Music (Is a Part of Me)" was re-written as " Fascination" with David Bowie for the latter's Young Americans (1975) album, Vandross went on to tour with him as a back-up vocalist in September 1974. He sang with her on the song "Who's Gonna Make It Easier for Me", which he wrote, and he contributed another song, "In This Lonely Hour". Vandross added backing vocals to Roberta Flack & Donny Hathaway in 1972, and worked on Delores Hall's Hall-Mark album (1973). 1970s: Back-up vocalist and first groups Directly afterward, he appeared with the group in the pilot episode and other episodes of the first season of Sesame Street during 1969–1970. The group performed in front of tens of thousands at the Harlem Cultural Festival in late August 1969. While he was a member of a theater workshop, Listen My Brother, he was involved in the singles "Only Love Can Make a Better World" and "Listen My Brother". During his early years in show business, he appeared several times at the Apollo's famous amateur night. He also performed in a group, Shades of Jade, that once played at the Apollo Theater. While in high school, Vandross founded the first Patti LaBelle fan club, of which he was president. Vandross graduated from William Howard Taft High School in the Bronx in 1969, and attended Western Michigan University for a year before dropping out to continue pursuing a career in music. Patricia sang with the vocal group The Crests and was featured on the songs "My Juanita" and "Sweetest One". His sisters, Patricia "Pat" and Ann, began taking Vandross to the Apollo Theater and to a theater in Brooklyn to see Dionne Warwick and Aretha Franklin. His family moved to the Bronx when he was nine. In 2003, Vandross wrote the song " Dance with My Father" and dedicated it to him the title was based on his childhood memories and his mother's recollections of the family singing and dancing in the house. Vandross' father died of diabetes when Vandross was eight years old. At the age of three, having his own phonograph, Vandross taught himself to play the piano by ear. Vandross was raised in Manhattan's Lower East Side in the NYCHA Alfred E. His father was an upholsterer and singer, and his mother was a nurse. He was the fourth child and second son of Mary Ida Vandross and Luther Vandross, Sr. was born on April 20, 1951, at Bellevue Hospital, in the Kips Bay neighborhood of Manhattan, New York City.
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