My original melody was not a lot of notes. I went off and wrote some music, and sent it to him. "He told me kind of what he wanted it to be about. And it’s called ‘Dance with My Father’.' All he had was the title. He said: 'I’ve got an idea for a song, and only you can write it for me. Speaking about writing the song, he said: "And then in 2003, he rang me up one day. He was capable of writing it all, as I am. And it was so easy to write songs together because I wrote music, and he wrote lyrics. It was called 'Every Year, Every Christmas'. He did a Christmas album – his first and only Christmas album. "But then a year or two later, he asked me to write a song with him. He sang on 'Keep Coming Back' and some other tracks. He offered to do that, so I took him up on that. He sang background vocals on a couple of my records, which was amazing. "We didn’t work together that much in the first couple of years. #tbt In the studio with my dear friend, Luther Vandross in 1997. We just developed a friendship over time. And then a few months later, we were both off the road, and he came to my house. "So we found ourselves calling each other at night after our shows, just to get to know each other, and hang out on the phone. "You know how sometimes you just hit it off with somebody immediately? You just feel like, 'Oh, this is a person I’m going to hang out with'? We started talking on the phone. It was a little mutual admiration society backstage for a minute. I was a big fan of his, and he was really sweet to me. "I met Luther in the early ‘90s at an American Music Awards show backstage. The pair co-wrote Luther's iconic 'Dance with My Father', which won him a Grammy a year before his death.Īt the 2004 Grammys, Richard played piano on the song, while Celine Dion stepped in for Luther, who was too ill to perform. Richard also opened up about his friendship with Luther Vandross. Every once in a while, I just text him, and I go, 'Have I thanked you lately for my career?'. I feel really lucky that we’re still friends. He added: "I just can’t stress enough how his graciousness and kindness changed the trajectory of my life to this day. So I sang on 'All Night Long' and 'Running with the Night'. And I was singing on hits like 'You Are'. I’d moved to LA, and he gave me a job singing background vocals on his first solo album. "And so a year later, I was out of high school. You should just come out to LA and get to work, and just see what you can accomplish.' "I was going into my senior year of high school at that point, and he said, 'I don’t want your parents to kill me, to dissuade you from going to college, but you’ve really got the goods, man.
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