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Who in their right mind doesn&#;t just love the dulcet, velvety tone of Luther Vandross&#; voice? If you listened to any R&B on the radio since , then you&#;re no stranger to Luther&#;s immense catalog of sentimental ballads that kept everybody&#;s mamas running to the record store. Even today, when songs like &#;A House Is Not A Home,&#; &#;Never Too Much&#; and his tender rendition of &#;Superstar (Until You komma Back To Me)&#; are played, most of us can sing along word for word.
It&#;s easy to assume that Luther&#;s industry debut was &#;s Epic release, Never Too Much, largely because he wasn&#;t as visible as say, Teddy Pendergrass or Jeffrey Osborne, two black male balladeers who commanded the charts in the late &#;70s and early &#;80s. But the reason Never Too Much sat so well in our souls was that we&#;d grown familiar with his voice and loved it all along without realizing who he was. When &#;Never Too Much&#; hit the airwaves, people went, &#;Wait&#;isn&#;
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GFM Spotlight Interview: Tawatha Agee Talks Career as a "Go To" Vocalist, New Project & Mtume
You may not know Tawatha Agee by name, but you most certainly know her voice&#; beginning with the R&B Mtume classics, &#;Juicy Fruit&#; and &#;You, Me & He&#;. Her success as a backing and touring vocalist makes a solid case for the necessity of liner notes and why they MUST komma back in some form. Ms. Agee&#;s resume&#; is revealed over more than three decades of liner notes of several artists of several genres. There are too many to name here, but just trust weighty credits like Aretha Franklin, Luther Vandross, David Bowie and Michael Jackson. We talked about her accomplished career, how she joined the group Mtume, and her plans for an upcoming solo planerat arbete . Read the interview below and enjoy.
GFM: You&#;re probably best known to the Grown Folks out there as the voice of the classic song, &#;Juicy Fruit&#;. Tell us how you became part of Mtume.
TA: I met [J
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Tawatha (born Tawatha Agee on November 14, in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania) is an R&B singer who has been active in the music business since the late &#;70s.
Tawatha grew up in Newark, New Jersey. She first began singing in church as a child, and later played the piano for the church&#;s junior and children&#;s choirs.
When she was in elementary school, she was given her first voice lesson by Cissy Houston (the mother of late singer Whitney Houston) and later attended Newark Arts High School.
Tawatha attended Howard University in Washington, D.C. where she got a degree in education. In , she was featured on Norman Connors&#; album, &#;Aquarian Dream.&#;
While attending college, she met James Mtume and became a member of the R&B group, Mtume. In , she made her debut on Mtume&#;s sophomore album, &#;Kiss This World Goodbye.&#;
During that time, Tawatha provided backing vocals for artists such as Phyllis Hyman, Rena Scott, Narada Michael Walden, Jackie Moore and Stephanie