“Be you. Make sure you're saying something when you're saying something. It's important to sound like you, to feel like you, to be like you. Be you.” -Erykah Badu. Just one of the many inspirational quotes said by the soulful artist. Born Erica Abi Wright later change to Erykah Badu,("kah" is an Egyptian term for one's "inner self," and "badu" is her favorite jazz-riff scat sound.) on February 26, 1971, in Dallas, Texas. Erykah was introduced into music and other arts in her early life because her mother, Kolleen Maria Gipson, was an actress. She was encouraged to develop her artistic leanings, which included painting, dancing, and acting, as well as music. Badu went to Booker T. Washington Secondary School for the Performing and Visual Expressions.
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"Everything on the collection [Baduizm] is a blend of each one of those things I heard growing up as a black youth," she disclosed in an interview. Black women are solid, however at times, if at any time, do black women get the opportunity to be free. In 1997 with her presentation collection Baduizm, Erykah Badu gallantly showed us how to move in a world sans the customarily impossible duty that accompanies being black and lady. Erykah also did this with a sweet yet intense voice from yesteryear. Seeming like an immediate beneficiary to Billie Holliday, Ms. Badu, an offspring of blues, jazz and hip-bounce wedded her persuasions with a sort of “sittin-on-the-front porch with-yo-granny” sort of insight to make the class characterizing Baduizm, and in this manner cementing our everlasting love for this simple young lady in an advanced world. Badu’s inspiration come from traveling.“I’ve been travelling around the world collecting drums.” From New Zealand and played with the Maori tribe to South Africa, to Soweto, and played with a few tribes there; went to Kenya and played with the Masai tribe in Nairobi; went to Cuba and got some timbale drums from some of the elders there.…And when I say ‘got drums’, I mean she recorded drums with either
"Everything on the collection [Baduizm] is a blend of each one of those things I heard growing up as a black youth," she disclosed in an interview. Black women are solid, however at times, if at any time, do black women get the opportunity to be free. In 1997 with her presentation collection Baduizm, Erykah Badu gallantly showed us how to move in a world sans the customarily impossible duty that accompanies being black and lady. Erykah also did this with a sweet yet intense voice from yesteryear. Seeming like an immediate beneficiary to Billie Holliday, Ms. Badu, an offspring of blues, jazz and hip-bounce wedded her persuasions with a sort of “sittin-on-the-front porch with-yo-granny” sort of insight to make the class characterizing Baduizm, and in this manner cementing our everlasting love for this simple young lady in an advanced world. Badu’s inspiration come from traveling.“I’ve been travelling around the world collecting drums.” From New Zealand and played with the Maori tribe to South Africa, to Soweto, and played with a few tribes there; went to Kenya and played with the Masai tribe in Nairobi; went to Cuba and got some timbale drums from some of the elders there.…And when I say ‘got drums’, I mean she recorded drums with either