I Know (Luther Vandross album)
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| Studio album by Luther Vandross | ||||
| Released | August 11, 1998 (US) | |||
| Recorded | 1997–1998 | |||
| Studio | Clinton Recording Studios (New York City, New York) Sony Scoring Stage (Culver City, California) Sound Barriers (New York City, New York) The Hit Factory (New York City, New York) The Record Plant (Los Angeles, California) |
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| Genre | R&B, soul | |||
| Label | Virgin | |||
| Producer | Luther Vandross (also executive), Marcus Miller, Nat Adderley, Jr., Terence "Tramp Baby" Abney, Kenny "Dope" Gonzales, Tony Moran, "Little" Louie Vega | |||
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The Ultra Selection cover
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| Entertainment Weekly | B− |
| Vibe | (favorable) |
I Know is the eleventh studio album (sixteenth overall) by American R&B/soul singer Luther Vandross, released in August 1998 (see 1998 in music), and his only one for Virgin Records (after leaving his longtime home label Epic Records the previous year; three years later, he would sign with Clive Davis' then-new J Records, where he recorded his final two albums). It was nominated for a Grammy Award for Best Traditional R&B Vocal Performance and the song "I Know" was nominated for a Grammy Award for Best Male R&B Vocal Performance in 1999. In early 2005 (four months before his death), Dutch EMI affiliate Disky Records reissued the album in Europe with a different order of tracks as part of the budget series The Ultra Selection. It features a cover of "When I Need You", originally recorded by Leo Sayer. Guest artists on this album include Stevie Wonder (who played harmonica on the title track), Cassandra Wilson (who performed the female vocals on I'm Only Human), the rappers Precise and Guru (who performed on the original and remixed versions of Nights in Harlem, respectively, with the former's vocals also appearing on Get It Right) and Brandy (a future Epic signee whose background vocals appear on the remixed version of Nights in Harlem, though uncredited).
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