Luther Vandross

"I was never 'the new Teddy Pendergrass,' 'the new Sam Cooke,' 'the new Otis Redding,' 'the new Marvin Gaye.' I was Luther from Day One."

— R&B artist who continued winning Grammys — eight in all — even after a debilitating stroke in 2003

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