He and his brother Joe, his musical partner during those years, shared the Juno for Best Production for Brother to Brother in 1979. In 1976, and again 1979, he received Juno Awards for the best male vocalist. He received the Juno Awards for the most promising male vocalist of the year in 1975. His next album, Nightwalker, also produced a top ten hit, " Living Inside Myself". 1 in Canada, and received a Grammy Award nomination. His 1978 album Brother to Brother, also with A&M, produced the single " I Just Wanna Stop", which reached No. Vannelli released an album, Gist of the Gemini, in 1976 through A&M Records. In 1974, he was invited to tour with Stevie Wonder. Vannelli was one of the first Caucasians ( Dennis Coffey being the very first in January 1972) to appear on the television dance program Soul Train. Alpert signed Vannelli and released his debut album, Crazy Life, in the summer of 1973. When Herb Alpert, the co-owner of A&M Records, finally emerged, Vannelli ran toward him and gave him a demo tape while being chased by security guards.
Desperate and broke, they waited for hours in the parking lot outside A&M Studios, hoping to get a record deal. Vannelli and his brother, Joe, moved to Los Angeles in 1972. He studied music theory at McGill University in Montreal. In 1969, at the age of seventeen, he signed a contract with RCA Records, using the name Vann Elli. He admired Gene Krupa and Buddy Rich, and he played drums in a pop band while he was in high school. His father, (Joseph) Russ Vannelli, sang with the Montreal dance bands of trumpeters Bix Belair and Maynard Ferguson.
Vannelli was born to an Italian family in Montreal, Quebec.
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