Biography

Repeat Offender balanced AOR muscle with prom-night tenderness.

Right Here Waiting became shorthand for long-distance devotion worldwide.

Producer and songwriter credits extended influence into country and pop lanes.

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At a glance

  • American singer-songwriter born in Chicago, Illinois.
  • Repeat Offender (1989) topped the US Billboard 200 and included Satisfied and Right Here Waiting.
  • Won a Grammy Award for Song of the Year as part of the writing team on Luther Vandross’s Dance with My Father (2004).