Anita Baker

Anita Baker ( born January 26, 1958 in Toledo, Ohio) is an American jazz singer.

Life

Anita Baker began her singing career in a gospel choir at the age of twelve years. Their models were then Ella Fitzgerald, Sarah Vaughan and Nancy Wilson, who influenced her singing style still clearly audible even today. In 1975, she started in Detroit in the band Chapter 8 to sing and took with it for Ariola Records on. After she got out of the band in 1979, she worked as a singer in Detroit from a lower paying job to the next. Early 80s she went to Los Angeles and was published in 1983, her first solo album, but still without much success.

Her breakthrough came in 1986, after they came in 1985 with Elektra Records. With their first LP Rapture there she won a Grammy and the plate reached platinum status. There were several pop hits on this album, which is characterized by slight jazz -tinged soul ballads. "Caught up in the rapture" and "Sweet Love" are probably the most known songs of this album.

Her other albums were far more influenced by jazz, and Anita Baker went from the Popballadensängerin to Rapture to a respected jazz singer of the younger generation. In 1993 she became mother of a son, and it was quiet around them. Only in 2003 she took after ten years with My Everything back on an album.

Discography

Albums

  • The Songstress (1983; U.S. charts # 139)
  • Rapture (1986; U.S. charts # 11)
  • Giving you the Best did I got (1988; U.S. charts # 1)
  • Compositions (1990; U.S. charts # 5)
  • Rhythm of Love ( 1994; U.S. charts # 3)
  • My Everything (2004; U.S. charts # 4)

Singles

  • No more Tears (1983 )
  • Angel ( 1983)
  • You're the best yet Thing (1984 )
  • Sweet Love (1986; U.S. charts # 8)
  • Caught up in the Rapture (1987; U.S. charts # 37)
  • No One in the World ( 1988 U.S. chart # 44)
  • Giving you the Best did I got (1988; U.S. charts # 3)
  • Just because (1989; U.S. charts # 14)
  • Talk to me (1990; U.S. charts # 44)
  • Soul Inspiration ( 1990 U.S. chart # 72)
  • Body and Soul ( 1994 U.S. chart # 36)
  • I apologize (1995; U.S. charts # 74)
  • Lately ( 2013 Grammy nominee )
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