LUTHER VANDROSS
A House Is Not A Home
Conventional wisdom—as well as my unrequited, Cedric*— says Big Luther > Little Luther. But Little Luther went all the way in at this here NAACP Awards tribute to Dionne Warwick. It may be that his Lutherness had a linear relationship with curl-ain’t-quite -rightness rather than heft hence his staying power given his curl’s stubborn refusal to curl ALL the way over.
*I guess I’ll see him next lifetime.