Dance with My Father
Studio album by Luther Vandross
Released	June 10, 2003 (2003-06-10)
Recorded	April 2002–April 2003
Studio	BearTracks Studios (Suffern, New York City) Hannibal Studios (Santa Monica, California) Playground/MiniMansion Studios (Closter, New Jersey) Right Track Recording The Hit Factory (New York, New York) Skip Trip-Algoryhthm Studios (Belle Mead, New Jersey) The Dengen (Torrance, California)
Genre	R&B[1]
Length	67:18
Label	J
Producer	Nat Adderley Jr. Shep Crawford Marcus Miller
Luther Vandross chronology
The Very Best of Love (2003) Dance with My Father (2003) The Essential Luther Vandross (2003)
Singles from Dance with My Father
"Dance with My Father" Released: May 30, 2003 "Think About You" Released: September 2003 "Buy Me a Rose" Released: January 2004

Dance with My Father is the fourteenth and finalstudio album by American singerLuther Vandross. It was released byJ Records on June 10, 2003 in the United States and served as the follow-up to hisself-titled studio album (2001). The album, especially its title track, was dedicated to Vandross's late father Luther Vandross, Sr. and features production credits fromNat Adderley Jr.,Shep Crawford, andMarcus Miller as well as guest appearances by singerBeyoncé, R&B trioNext, and rappersFoxy Brown,Queen Latifah, andBusta Rhymes.

Upon its release,Dance with My Father debuted atop the USBillboard 200 chart with first week sales of 442,000 units, becoming his first and only album to do so. It also marked his eighth and first album in twelve years to top theTop R&B/Hip-Hop Albums chart. Critically acclaimed,Dance with My Father earned Vandross twoAmerican Music Awards in the Favorite Soul/R&B Male Artist and theFavorite Soul/R&B Album categories as well as fourGrammy Awards wins out of five nominations, includingSong of the Year andBest Male R&B Vocal Performance for "Dance with My Father",Best R&B Performance by a Duo or Group with Vocals for "The Closer I Get to You", his duet with Beyoncé, andBest R&B Album.

Professional ratings

Review scores
Source	Rating
AllMusic	[2]
The Guardian	[3]
Entertainment Weekly	B[4]
Los Angeles Times	[5]
Plugged In	(mixed)[6]
Rolling Stone	[7]
Vibe	[8]

Dance with My Father was released to generally positive reviews from music critics. In his review forAllMusic, David Jeffries summed that "Dance with My Father isn't able to maintain the high standards it often achieves, but Vandross' voice is always compelling and the background singers live up to the superior arrangements throughout. With nearly 70 minutes of music on the disc to choose from, more savvy listeners will be able to program their CD players for a more focused and rewarding listen." He rated the album four out of five stars.^[2] Writing forThe Guardian,Adam Sweeting declared the album "one of Vandross's very finest recordings." He found that "always a class act, a kind of top-of-the-rangeLexus among soulmen, Vandross has clung to his traditional strengths – lush melodies and artful arrangements, sung with that elegantly beseeching voice – while incorporating some discreet nods to modernity."^[3]

BBC Music critic Jack Smith calledDance with My Father "another faultless, high-gloss collection of love songs to follow his2001Luther Vandross release [...] Now in his early-50s, Vandross is so much the master of his craft, you cant help but want him to stretch out a little, take a few chances, maybe get a collaborator with some more imaginative ideas for instrumentation to match his own impeccable vocal arrangements. But if you like your R&B to be smooth and your songs to be grown-up, you're not going to argue too much."^[1]Los Angeles Times editor described the album as "a beautifully sung, ultra-nostalgic ballad cataloging childhood memories of his long-departed dad. But more to the point, [it] better updates the singer-songwriter-producer's time-tested strengths as a butter-voiced chronicler of romance."^[5] Gail Mitchell, writing forBillboard, found thatDance with My Father was "signature Luther: hot-buttered vocals dripping over lush ballads, with occasional midtempo spikes [...] Vandross proves, again, that he's a gifted vocalist who transcends time."^[9]

Upon its release,Dance with My Father debuted atop the USBillboard 200 chart with first week sales of 442,000 units, becoming Vandross' first and only album to do so,^[14] while also marking his best sales week in theNielsen SoundScan era.^[14] The album was his eighth and first album in the twelve years to top theTop R&B/Hip-Hop Albums chart.^[15] By October 2003,Dance with My Father had sold 1.2 million copies in the United States.^[16] On April 14, 2004, it was certified Double Platinum by theRecording Industry Association of America (RAA) for domestic shipments figures in excess of 2.0 million units.^[17]

Sample credits

• "Lovely Day (Part II)" contains excerpts from the composition "Say Yeah" as performed byThe Commodores.

Adapted from AllMusic.^[18]

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• Luther Vandross albums
• Albums produced by Richard Marx
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