Watch the Official Music Video for "Caught Up In The Rapture" by Anita Baker.Subscribe to the Rhino Channel! Anita Baker (Toledo, Ohio, 26 de enero de 1958) es una cantante estadounidense de soul. The 63-year-old Anita Baker released her first studio album, The Songstress, via Beverly Glen Music in 1983; Warner Music Group’s Elektra Records then reissued the eight-track project in 1991. Sign up for the 10 to Hear newsletter here. Anita Baker (born January 26, 1958, in Toledo, Ohio) is a soul and adult contemporary Rhythm and blues singer. 99 $26.99 $26.99 FREE Shipping Get free shipping Free 5-8 day shipping within the U.S. when you order $25.00 of eligible items sold or fulfilled by Amazon. Anita Baker Asks Fans Not To Stream Or Download Her Music As She Fights For Masters. All Material Is Posted Under The Fair Use Act. Let us choose an R&B channel for you! Rapture is like a home Baker built, a hearth, a warm safe place where both the mystery of love and the history of Black music can be both explored and preserved. Baker wanted a whole album in this mode so the mood wouldn’t be disturbed by the more aggressive and mechanical pop-R&B productions that were in vogue at the time. Surprise Me. Rapture didn’t align with the electro-R&B that was de rigueur in 1986 pop or the increasingly mechanistic and sexually-unbridled explorations of the genre’s most prominent svengalis, Prince and Jimmy Jam and Terry Lewis. ... Baker’s first two albums, 1983’s The Songstress and 1986’s Rapture, are now more than 35 years past their original release. Today we revisit Anita Baker’s timeless 1986 album, a slow-burning and symphonic piece of quiet storm R&B that floods every sense. Anita Baker (Toledo, Ohio, 26 de enero de 1958) es una cantante estadounidense de soul. And we don’t blame her! And though Baker expressed her own antipathy toward synthesizers around the time of Rapture’s release (“The sound is so thin,” she said), there are synths all over the album, and when they mix with the acoustic pianos they encase their tones in a layer of crystal. After an illustrious singing career that has earned her 8 Grammy Awards, Anita Baker announced she’s now gearing up to fight for her masters! Apparently when Luther came out after Anita's set, he said to the audience "I'd like to thank my OPENING ACT, Anita Baker!" "Sweet Love" is a song by American R&B singer and songwriter Anita Baker from her second studio album, Rapture (1986). She swung her arms around, grasping handfuls of air or strumming it as if she were able to touch her own music as it streamed by. Anita Baker / アニタ・ベイカーRAPTURE / ラプチュアー ＜MQA-CD／UHQCD＞ 2019.08.07 発売 JPY 2,800 ￥3,080（税込） ／WPCR-18232. Catch up every Saturday with 10 of our best-reviewed albums of the week. The great singer singing her song live!! 99 $26.99 $26.99 FREE Shipping Get free shipping Free 5-8 day shipping within the U.S. when you order $25.00 of eligible items sold or fulfilled by Amazon. Browse All AccuRadio Genres-Advertisement-© 2014 AccuRadio LLC. (March 11, 2021) Legendary songstress Anita Baker may be one of the most popular and biggest selling female vocalists of all time, but her music has been surprisingly tough to find these days. Buy. The format particularly excelled at simulating the slow-motion atmosphere of romance, a physical and mental connection so strong it could make the molecules in the air around it lag. Which is one of the reasons why Rapture as an R&B album doesn’t feel like an argument for nostalgia or authenticity as much as it does for continuity. Ha sido ganadora de ocho premios Grammy . "Sweet Love" is a song by American R&B singer and songwriter Anita Baker from her second studio album, Rapture (1986). Anita Baker is the highest selling female artist of the 80’s spanning over 7 number one hits and selling 86 million records worldwide. With her classy, refined brand of romantic soul, Anita Baker was one of the definitive quiet storm singers of the '80s. The Detroit-based icon posted on Twitter last week that she’d outlived all of her recording contracts and that the right to her masters should legally revert to her. 1,140. Anita Baker is getting support from her fellow A-lister Taylor Swift during her ongoing fight to gain control of her masters. Anita Baker; Rapture. Anita Baker, American singer whose powerful, emotional delivery brought her international acclaim in the 1980s and ’90s. She was one of the most popular artists in urban contemporary music, a genre that her sophisticated, tradition-oriented soul and rhythm-and-blues singing helped to define. Today we revisit Anita Baker… The great singer singing her song live!! 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