Giving You the Best World Tour

The Heat
Tour by Anita Baker and Luther Vandross
LocationNorth America
Associated album
Start dateSeptember 28, 1988 (1988-09-28)
End dateDecember 31, 1988 (1988-12-31)
Legs2
No. of shows51
Anita Baker tour chronology
The Rapture Tour
(1986–87) 		The Heat
(1988) 		Compositions World Tour
(1990)
Luther Vandross tour chronology
Give Me the Reason Tour
(1987) 		The Heat
(1988) 		Any Love World Tour
(1989)

The Heat (also known as The Heat: Luther & Anita Live!) is a co-headlining concert tour by American recording artists Anita Baker and Luther Vandross. The tour primarily played over 50 shows in the United States during the fall and winter of 1988. Shows in New York City,[1] Los Angeles[2] and Rosemont[3] were instant sellouts.

Baker has a brief promo tour mere weeks before this tour started.[4] She later toured internationally with George Benson, for shows in Europe and Asia, under the title "Anita Baker in Concert". Following the conclusion of this joint tour, Vandross launched his "Any Love World Tour" in January 1989.[5]

  1. ^ Holden, Stephen (September 11, 1988). "SEASON PREVIEW; Folk-rock, pop-soul and the prince of funk". The New York Times. Archived from the original on November 14, 2013. Retrieved April 2, 2023.
  2. ^ Grein, Paul (December 11, 1988). "Baker, Vandross: The Billing, No Cooing". Los Angeles Times. Archived from the original on April 2, 2023. Retrieved April 2, 2023.
  3. ^ Silverman, David (December 25, 1988). "Tour De Force". Chicago Tribune. Archived from the original on March 25, 2014. Retrieved April 2, 2023.
  4. ^ "NEW DATES FOR BAKER CONCERTS". The Boston Globe. August 9, 1988. Archived from the original on June 11, 2014. Retrieved April 2, 2023.
  5. ^ Seymour, Craig (July 2004). Luther: The Life and Longing of Luther Vandross. HarperEntertainment. ISBN 0060594187.