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 love being an entertainer - not really fond of being a celebrity.
[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.
Hip-hop was created out of necessity. We needed to create some digitized things to help us understand what we were feeling.
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 can be Erykah the human being more than the celebrity.
In the morning, instead of saying to yourself, ‘I got to wake up’ say ‘I get to wake up!’
I'd rather see a person with a natural mind and processed mind than a processed mind and a natural head.
I'm only in competition with my last level. It don't have nothing to do with music or anything. And the last level is hard competition, the last place you were.
I'm kind of a recluse when it comes to going outside.
But now I realize that this record business really needs me. No one else is trying to take a chance or do something different.
Whereas I want everything to be peaceful during a birth, I take the total opposite approach when I'm helping someone come to terms with leaving this place - I play Richard Pryor records.
I'm in training to become a midwife. I'm almost there and before I know it I'll be able to open my own practice, if that's what I desire.
What opens my heart is when my son wakes me up in the morning, nudging me and saying, 'Mommy, mommy!'
What makes me furious, not just because we're in an interview, but I don't like when writers take your words and put them somewhere else, in the wrong context in their own article about you.