1 on the In 1983, the opportunity to work with his main musical influence, Vandross wrote and produced "It's Hard for Me to Say" for In 1990, Vandross wrote, produced and sang background for More albums followed in the 1990s, beginning with 1991's Vandross hit the top ten again in 1994, teaming with A second greatest hits album, released in 1997, compiled most of his 1990s hits and was his final album released through Epic Records. All rights reserved. She spoke about this shortly after Luther’s death in 2005 and just three years later in 2008, Ms. Ida had about all that she could take in this life and she too, took her last breathe. MARY married LUTHER VANDROSS. Let me worry for you.’ He wouldn’t share. Her husband slipped into a diabetic coma at age 38 and never recovered, and her mother, oldest son, daughter and grandson have died from the disease. I wonder what I could have done. The singer's mother, Mary Ida Vandross, has become a spokesperson for the Charles Ray III Diabetes Association, encouraging diabetes testing, treatment and prevention in the African-American community.She tells NPR's Tavis Smiley that the illness has literally stolen away members of her family. Sitting in the living room of her memento-filled luxury apartment, she wants you to see Luther Vandross … The names of his parents were Mary Ida Vandross and Luther Vandross, Sr. Talking about his personal life, he never got married and never had children and wife. At the time Mrs. Vandross explained how this dread disease has decimated her family: As a mother, I wanted to do something.”“He was a very private man in some areas of his life. They had 2 children: LUTHER R VANDROSS and one other child. Mary Ida Vandross told Tim.A mother?s ultimate heartbreak is burying a child. His mother, now 80, Mary Ida Vandross, an ordained interdenominational minister, and a spokesman for the Charles Ray Diabetes Association, gave an interview in March 2004, about one year after Luther’s stroke, to then NPR interviewer Tavis Smiley. Mary Ida … She was 82-years-old and she died from natural causes.It goes without saying, Mary Ida’s son, Luther Vandross,’ legacy in music will never be forgotten. Mary Vandross, 82, was the last surving family member in the immediate Vandross family having lost her husband, all four of her children and only grandson to either strokes or diabetes. was Mary Ida?s oldest. Vandross was born in New York City on April 20, 1951, and grew up in the Alfred E. Smith housing projects in lower Manhattan. It doesn’t care who it affects.
Mary Ida Vandross, mother of the late superstar Luther Vandross, passed away after being in a coma for more than a month. She attended high school in Cheraw but spent most of her young life in Marion, South Carolina. Mary Ida Vandross was born in Cheraw, South Carolina, as the second child of three. Mary Ida Vandross, the mother of late R&B legend Luther Vandross, died last week of natural causes. She grieved while standing in her son’s place to do press runs that Luther typically would have been doing to promote the project.After outliving all four of her children, her only grandson and her husband, who all passed away from health related issues, Mary Ida Vandross passed away in 2008, three years after Luther did.