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Unexpected big breaks
Luther Vandross
The singer had been performing jingles and backing vocals when in 1974, David Bowie heard him playing around with arrangements in a Philadelphia studio.
Bowie invited him to arrange songs on his 'Young Americans' album providing his first recording opportunity.
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