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In 2006, Bruce Vilanch, a friend and colleague of Vandross, told Out magazine, "He said to me, 'No one knows I'm in the life.' ... He had very few sexual contacts". According to Vilanch, Vandross experienced his longest romantic relationship with a man while living in Los Angeles during the late 1980s and early 1990s.[59] In December 2017, 12 years after his death, Vandross's friend Patti LaBelle confirmed that he was gay.[60] In addition, Vandross was well aware that officially coming out as gay while he was actively making music would have been detrimental to the trajectory of his career, given the majority of his target audience were women seeking some mode of emotional engagement from his words. LaBelle said "[Vandross] had a lot of lady fans" and "he just didn't want to upset the world".[61]

In a way, Luther was an early music stan. He was such a huge fan of the Supremes that when they broke up so Diana could go solo, his grades at school suffered because he was so upset. That\u2019s devotion. Years later, he was so successful that in addition to becoming friends with the likes of Dionne Warwick, Diana Ross and Aretha Franklin (okay, him and Aretha were a bit more like frenemies), he got to work with them regularly. That must have been such a dream come true.

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I assume Luther must have felt the sense of overwhelming failure after regaining 125 + pounds. Understandably, he might have avoided taking his diabetes medications, seeking out his healthcare providers, and asking for help from others. As a result, he was alone in his battle. I think that was a mistake.

On Knights stage performing as Luther Vandross is the Atlanta-based Cedric Bowler, a soulful Gospel and R&B singer whose unbelievable voice will leave you mesmerized and wanting more. His rendition of the Luther Vandross sound will have you relive an era of music that brings back feelings of love and warm memories.

Unfortunately we will never know whether or not Luther would have felt empowered enough to come out, as his former J Records boss, Clive Davis, did in 2013. What we do know is that what kept him in the dark is an industry, and a society, marred by bigotry.

EDISON, N.J., July 3-Recording industry superstar, Luther Vandross, 54, died Friday, two years after suffering a stroke.

Vandross died at the John F. Kennedy Medical Center here. The hospital said in a statement that he "never fully recovered" from the effects of the stroke. Vandross had long fought obesity, with weight that fluctuated. He was hypertensive and suffered from diabetes.

Although largely out of the public eye since the stroke, Vandross recorded a final album and won four recording industry Grammy awards last year.

During a lengthy career, he won a total of eight Grammy awards and is remembered for his trademark silky crooning in a string of R&B hits, beginning with Hear and Now and ending with Dance With My Father.

African-American men have a significantly higher risk of stroke, and death caused by stroke, than white males, according to the American Stroke Association. In 2002, the latest year for which data are available, the stroke-mortality rate for black men was 82 per 100,000 population, while the stroke mortality for white men was 54 per 100,000. Likewise mortality is higher in black women, at 72 per 100,000 population, versus white women, who die from stroke at a rate of 53 per 100,000.

Black men and women generally have more stroke risk factors such as diabetes and hypertension, according to George Howard, Dr. P.H., who chairs the department of biostatistics at the University of Alabama at Birmingham School of Public Health. He is an authority on the demographics of stroke.

Two weeks ago, researchers in The Netherlands who studied 2,473 patients with minor ischemic stroke, or transient ischemic attack (TIA), reported that only 40% of stroke patients survive for 10 years after stroke, and even among long-term survivors more than half have a subsequent stroke or cardiovascular event during the 10 years following stroke.

The Dutch researchers, who reported their findings in The Lancet, reported that survival was best during the first three years following stroke. They suggested that the early survival benefit probably reflects secondary prevention measures such as daily aspirin and lifestyle changes including weight loss, exercise and smoking cessation.

The use of such preventive measures decreased as stroke became a distant event, they wrote.

In the Dutch study the predictors of death and the occurrence of a vascular event included age, diabetes and evidence of vascular disease. Age and sex-adjusted hazard ratios were 3.33 (2.97-3.73) for age over 65 years, 2.10 (1.79-2.48) for diabetes, 1.77 (1.45-2.15) for claudication, 1.94 (1.42-2.65) for previous peripheral vascular surgery, and 1.50 (1.31-1.71) for pathological Q waves on baseline electrocardiogram.

In a commentary that accompanied the Dutch study, Graeme J. Hankey M.D., of the University of Western Australia in Perth wrote that the take home message from the Dutch study is clearly that "patients with TIA and minor ischemic stroke should be repeatedly reassessed (because risks can change), treated to prevent cerebrovascular and cardiovascular events, and treated long-term."

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Your grandma had a saying that applied to Luther, though he's so unstuck-up she would have hesitated to use it on him: "That fellow's certainly in love with the sound of his own voice." B-

I can remember being a young child and seeing so much of myself when watching Luther Vandross\u2019 performances. From his smile to the ways that he carried himself on stage, I always thought Vandross possessed a special candor, one that often left so many people whispering about his identity and private nature behind his back.\n\n\n\nAdmittedly, when I learned via social media that there was going to be a documentary premiering at this year's Sundance about the late Grammy Award-winning composer, writer and singer, I immediately went to a place of concern. Considering what I thought I knew about the late creator, I was worried that this would be another film seeking to \u201cout\u201d him. More than anything, I kept asking myself, \u201cHow much of this film would be about the actual talent of the \u201cVelvet Voice\u201d and how much of the film would be spent speculating on the identity of a person who never felt safe enough to be their authentic self, both in entertainment and out in the world?\n\n\n\nHowever, in Dawn Porter\u2019s new documentary, Luther: Never Too Much, I was so grateful to see her balance care and intentionality in examining Vandross\u2019 story, making it a narrative about self-reflection, rather than projection. \n\n\n\n\nhttps:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=pNj9bXKGOiI\n\n\n\n\nIt was clear that Porter went into directing this documentary asking both herself and the world \u201cWhat is the true meaning of Vandross\u2019 legacy?\u201d in a world that often only recognized him for just his voice. The film reckons with the society\u2019s assumptions placed onto Black men who, like Vandross, appear to be \u201csoft\u201d in a world that prizes hypermasculinity.\n\n\n\n\n\nWhile Porter highlights Vandross finding success in the music industry, she also focuses on what it was like for Vandross to navigate his music career while wrestling with questions about his weight and sexuality. The most interesting part of this documentary is watching media figures who interviewed him get visibly upset or frustrated when he decided not to disclose parts of his story. This reminded me of how entitled some folks feel to your narrative and how this was often the case for Vandross. \n\n\n\nBut most importantly, it felt validating to watch Porter\u2019s work and see her examine the true impact that speculating on one\u2019s identity can have on an individual. For years, this was the case for Vandross and finally someone is showing the implications this had.\u00a0\n\n\n\nThough we may never fully know all of Vandross\u2019 story, what we do know is that his music and legacy is one that will always be one that centers love. Considering the times we are currently in, that will never be too much.\n\n\n\nAs someone who identifies as Black, fat, and femme, and who often found refuge in Vandross\u2019 work, I, too, dealt with many of the same issues Vandross struggled with in silence. Seeing Porter mention Vandross\u2019 issues with his body and the speculation around it helped validate my own struggle with the complexities of feeling hyper visible and invisible at the same time, and how painful it can be for the world to not actualize you beyond the scopes of your identity. Ultimately, Porter\u2019s film grapples with how the world's fixation on both his identity and sexuality made Vandross feel \u201cunlovable\u201d and consequently, the pain he often navigated. \n\n\n\nI departed the theater thinking, \"How could a man who sang some of the most beautiful love songs be so sad and lonely?\u201d and I immediately came back to the ways Vandross was never given the safety to be his authentic self. I quickly came to understand that songs like \u201cAny Love\u201d was a song about Vandross\u2019s wanting to be loved beyond what he looked like or how he identified. Or that the song \u201cWait for Love\u201d might have been about him feeling like he would never find the someone who would see past his imperfections. \n\n\n\n\nhttps:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=3aFaU1G3J5s\n\n\n\n\nPorter\u2019s work asks the viewer to evaluate the important question: Do we really want to know about someone's identity to continue perpetuating stigma or because we want to help someone find freedom, truth, and peace? \n\n\n\nThough we may never fully know all of Vandross\u2019 story, what we do know is that his music and legacy is one that will always be one that centers love. Considering the times we are currently in, that will never be too much. \n\n\n","thumbnailUrl":"https:\/\/into-prodweb.s3.amazonaws.com\/uploads\/2024\/02\/gettyimages-1217144096-scaled.jpg","image":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https:\/\/into-prodweb.s3.amazonaws.com\/uploads\/2024\/02\/gettyimages-1217144096-scaled.jpg","height":1006,"width":1024},"creator":"Jonathan P. 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