Terry Steele @ Spaghettini

Terry Steele is the night’s sole listed performer at Spaghettini in Seal Beach. The available event information bills the show under Steele’s name and does not specify a backing group, guest appearance, tribute program, release celebration, or other special format. Expect a set centered on the singer-songwriter and solo recording artist, with the particulars of the repertoire left unannounced.

Los Angeles-based Steele is known above all as the co-writer of Luther Vandross’s “Here and Now,” described by AllMusic as his “best-known song.” His solo work has been characterized as urban contemporary, adult contemporary, and quiet storm, with a pop-friendly crossover approach. Steele’s biography credits him with writing for or collaborating with Whitney Houston, Dionne Warwick, Patti LaBelle, Stevie Wonder, Diana Ross, Natalie Cole, George Duke, Hiroshima, and others; he also recorded six albums as Hiroshima’s lead singer. In a review of Steele’s Luther Vandross tribute performance, BroadwayWorld called him “poised, professional, and spectacular,” saying he came “remarkably close to capturing both the sound and spirit” of Vandross. AllMusic calls him a “talented” vocalist, while noting that songwriting has been more visible than his solo career.