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 don't think it matters what school you go to, but I think it's important for parents to be involved. And to know that when school stops, learning continues, and to continue teaching at home.
[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.
I grew up listening to old soul
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.
I planned my success. I knew it was going to happen.
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.
Hopefully my music is medicine, some type of antidote for something or some kind of explanation or just to feel good.
Music and the music business are two different things.
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.
I don't require sex for happiness - I need companionship. I need a partner I can depend on, that I can love and grow with.
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.