![]() ![]() Strong (background vocals), Karen Bernód (background vocals), NDambi (background vocals), Hubert Eaves Jr. D'Angelo's manager, Kedar Massenburg, was impressed with the performance and hooked her up with the. Released 18 November 1997 on Universal (catalog no. A singer/songwriter responsible for all but one of the songs on Baduizm, she found a number 12 hit with her first single, "On & On," which pushed the album to number two on the charts.īorn Erica Wright in Dallas in 1971, Badu attended a school of the arts and was working as a teacher and part-time singer when she opened for D'Angelo at a 1994 show. The grooves and production on the album are bass-heavy R&B, but Badu's languorous, occasionally tortured vocals and delicate phrasing immediately removed her from the legion of cookie-cutter female R&B singers. While her debut, Baduizm, earned strong reviews and healthy sales, her concerts became equally popular and she became known as a powerhouse live performer. She grew up listening to '70s soul and '80s hip-hop, but Erykah Badu drew more comparisons to Billie Holiday upon her breakout in 1997, after the release of her first album, Baduizm. However, Erykah Badu is not a conventional artist and Live is not a conventional live album.
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