Anita Baker
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Anita Baker: Mouthful of Rapture
Interview by Nick Coleman, New Musical Express, 26 April 1986
ANITA BAKER is the soul voice of the '80s. NICK COLEMAN rings LA to chat about her new LP Rapture. ...
Interview by Nick Coleman, New Musical Express, 2 August 1986
NICK COLEMAN catches his breath after his first encounter with sweet songstress ANITA BAKER, who wowed London crowds last weekend. ...
Anita Baker, Nat Augustin: Hammersmith Odeon, London
Live Review by Paul Sexton, Record Mirror, 9 August 1986
BEING THE warm-up at one of the most hotly anticipated soul shindigs of the year was a double-edged sword for Nat Augustin, the former Light ...
Antita Baker: Has This Woman Made The Best Soul Album Of The Year?
Interview by Paul Sexton, Record Mirror, 16 August 1986
Well, according to the experts, Anita Baker's Rapture LP is the business. But did anyone know that the lady shelled out some of her own ...
Anita Baker: The Deep Dark Soul
Interview by Richard Cook, The Wire, September 1986
THE BAND PLAYS a slow, rough-textured groove, flesh laid on the dark bones of the bass. Three women set up a vocal counterpoint, rich with ...
Interview by Caroline Sullivan, Melody Maker, 31 January 1987
ANITA BAKER, the new queen of soul, discusses the dos and dont's of the bigtime with a sympathetic Caroline Sullivan. ...
Anita Baker: Good songs, that's what count!
Interview by David Nathan, Blues & Soul, 3 February 1987
The limelight has never been brighter for 'the songstress' Anita Baker but she always has time for a chat with B&S, David Nathan strikes up ...
Interview by Dave Rimmer, Q, March 1987
THAT RESTLESS, relentless and often quite ridiculous search for the Next Big Thing has to be the longest-running game in pop. When Anita Baker's album, ...
Interview by David Nathan, Blues & Soul, 12 May 1987
YOU MIGHT assume that after winning two Grammies, a couple of Soul Train Music Awards and having a two million-plus-selling album, Anita Baker would hear ...
Anita Baker: Greek Theater, Los Angeles CA
Live Review by Richard Cromelin, Los Angeles Times, 5 September 1987
BAKER PLAYS IT LOOSE AT THE GREEK ...
Anita Baker: Wembley Arena, London
Live Review by Richard Cook, Sounds, 29 October 1988
THE VOICE that makes strong men tremble, that melts the stoniest heart — but something's just out of reach for Anita Baker. ...
Luther Vandross, Anita Baker: Capital Center, Landover, MD
Live Review by David Nathan, Billboard, 29 October 1988
ON A TOUR appropriately billed The Heat, the inspired teaming of two of contemporary black music's hottest names can hardly miss. And judging from this ...
Anita Baker: Wembley Arena, London
Live Review by Jeff Lorez, Blues & Soul, 8 November 1988
THE DIFFICULTIES in playing Wembley Arena have been well documented. Firstly, the imposing venue has never been conducive to allowing a warm, intimate atmosphere between ...
Luther Vandross, Anita Baker: Omni Coliseum, Atlanta GA
Live Review by Mark Cooper, The Guardian, 25 November 1988
Casanova in a shiny suit ...
Essay by Barney Hoskyns, Vogue, 1990
FOR ALL THE LEGENDARY kings of soul music, the Sam Cookes and Otis Reddings and Marvin Gayes, the true spirit of this great black American ...
Anita Baker: Live at Wembley Arena
Live Review by Barney Hoskyns, The Times, June 1990
ANITA BAKER remains a remarkable phenomenon: an intimate, improvisatory jazz-soul songstress who gigs in vast, impersonal hangars such as Wembley Arena. She should be appearing ...
Interview by Paul Mathur, Blitz, July 1990
Following her second solo album, Rapture, Anita Baker was acknowledged as possibly the best female vocalist in the world. Now she's back with a new album which leaves the opposition standing ...
Review by Mark Cooper, Q, August 1990
WITH THE EXCEPTION of Luther Vandross, most of the current crop of soul men restrict themselves to the limited sphere of their bedroom mirrors and ...
Anita Baker: Compositions - A Return To Rapture
Review by Paolo Hewitt, Select, August 1990
FOR THE first time since her elevation to the forefront of female vocalists, Anita Baker has begun writing her own material. Furthermore, in an attempt ...
Anita Baker: Compositions (Elektra Entertainment)
Review by James Hunter, Musician, August 1990
FOUR YEARS ago, Anita Baker quietly stormed the pop music charts with Rapture, a reclamation of jazz-soul balladry driven by acoustic resonances and Baker's forthright ...
Anita Baker: Anita & the Killing Machine
Interview by David Nathan, Blues & Soul, 8 January 1991
The straight talking Anita Baker delivers her verdict on the state of R&B and the double standards applied by the U.S. music business. David Nathan ...
Anita Baker: Rhythm Of Love, Roberta Flack: Roberta
Review by Carol Cooper, Newsday, September 1994
In a long list of thank you’s on her first new album in four years, Anita Baker cites Roberta Flack "for loving me anyway." Now ...
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