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I'm more like an oven than a microwave.
Erykah Badu
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Erykah Badu
Age: 53
Born: 1971
Born: February 26
Actor
Composer
Jazz Musician
Poet
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Recording Artist
Singer
Singer-Songwriter
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Dallas
Texas
Erica Abi Wright
Erica Wright
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I remember when I signed with Kedar Entertainment through Universal Records. It was my first record deal and it's the one I still have now. At that time, there had been a couple of opportunities I was almost given, but at the last minute the giver came back and told me it couldn't happen.
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I strongly believe that the more positive my vibration is, the clearer my message will be. I keep my negative thoughts from infiltrating my pathway and my dreams. Other people's thoughts are none of my business.
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I imagine that when I am creating a song or a project or an album or putting some clothing together or cooking a meal, whatever it is, I don't really have a recipe. The fun part is to throw that big piece of clay in the middle of the table as hard as I can, and whatever shape it takes, that's what shape it takes, and then I start to carve away.
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I don't read music or anything, so when I produce, I go basically by ear.
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[Riccardo Tisci ] has an interesting approach to weaving the contemporary with the couture, and blending tribes and collections. It always seems to work.
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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.
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I come from a long line of matriarchal women, and my greatest teachers were my mothers.
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Society has a problem with female nudity when it is not . . . ”—Badu pauses to get her words together she wants this point to be very clear—“. . . when it is not packaged for the consumption of male entertainment. Then it becomes confusing.
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...When it come to da: What it do?! I don't fall for da: Woop- TeE- WoOoo!
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I'll dabble here and there in different forms of the art, but the label has me locked down like a slave so, of course, I'll be doing albums during this time
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My girls are very fashionable. They have a very good eye for marrying style and fashion.
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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.
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When I get ready to do an album, that means I have something to say for the sake of words, and I listen back to all of the things I've been creating and pull things from out of the air to go with them. It's almost like I start creating the album before I even think about creating it.
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I actually started writing it because I was inspired by my own personal growth.
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The wise healer endures the pain. Cry. Tears bring joy.
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I'm pretty mutable as a human being.
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We mainly focus on putting music, art, dance, theater, all forms of art, back into the community, so the community can put it into the world.
Erykah Badu
The metal or the stone that's helping me .I'll incorporate them into anything I wear - but I think it's about accessories more than anything, because it's how you accessorize yourself that gives you your own unique style.
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But now I realize that this record business really needs me. No one else is trying to take a chance or do something different.
Erykah Badu
Personally, I don't choose any particular religion or symbol or group of words or teachings to define me. That's between me and the most high. You know, my higher self. The Creator.
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