Erykah Badu
Erykah Badu
Erykah Abi Wright, better known by her stage name Erykah Badu, is an American singer-songwriter, record producer, activist, and actress. Badu's career began after opening a show for D'Angelo in 1994 in her hometown; record label executive Kedar Massenburg was highly impressed with her performance and signed her to Kedar Entertainment. Her first album, Baduizm, was released on February 11, 1997. It spawned three singles: "On & On", "Next Lifetime" and "Otherside of the Game". The album was certified triple...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionR&B Singer
Date of Birth26 February 1971
CityDallas, TX
CountryUnited States of America
I have advice for people - period - who are in unhealthy relationships: Follow your heart. It will get you to where you need to be. Sometimes it's hard, sometimes it's easy, the places that your heart takes you. But continue to follow it. Where the train leads you - you'll get there.
If we were made in his image then call us by our names. Most intellects do not believe in god but they fear us just the same
I started performing at two or three on a tape recorder, one of those little flat recorders where you just push play and record.
I don't have one song that sounds like another one in my entire catalog.
When you're in a relationship you want it to work. My parents did, I did. But we are not taught how to make it work.
I thought the Billie Holiday comparison was beautiful. I think, Wow, what a wonderful, creative, helpful spirit. She's someone who wanted to help others by sharing her emotion. That's what I do, too, so I think that's a great comparison.
Hip-hop was created out of necessity. We needed to create some digitized things to help us understand what we were feeling.
Music and the music business are two different things.
Hopefully my music is medicine, some type of antidote for something or some kind of explanation or just to feel good.
I believed in myself, and I've always worked very, very hard as an artist, and I am an artist in every sense of the word.
The kind of music or the kind of arrangements that I do, the kind of musicians I choose, is just what I like to hear.
When it comes to fashion or any high art, you have to have a combination of delicacy, along with taste.
I grew up listening to old soul
[The Land] is a film that just happens to be directed and written by a Puerto Rican guy with a black dad. It seemed like a very natural, human interaction between people who all just came from one common cesspool of bad luck.