Background
The son of a minister, Luther grew up in Seattle.
The son of a minister, Luther grew up in Seattle.
He began learning sax at the age of ten. As a teenager he was doing gigs at his local rotary club He was also a sax player in The Velvetones which was Jimi Hendrix"s first band.
Between that time and his membership with BALLIN"JACK, he had been with the groups The Stags, The Nite Sounds, and The Emergency Exit.
In 1976 he had become part of Santana as the group"s lead singer and was on tour with them in 1976.
Luther was a member of Ballin" Jack, a group he had founded in 1969 and stayed with them until the group"s break up in or around 1974. In 1977 he was working with Lola Falana, had released his solo LP in 1979 and by the 1980s he was a member of the group WAR.