I’m a Chinese guy who was born and raised in Shanghai( a city of China currently lol), I first heard her song in a Uber ride while I was traveling in Chicago back in Sep 2016, and that song was Been so long and then it came sweet love, when I searched her album on Chinese music platforms, guess what? I was able to find all of her albums even including her live tour back in 1987! There are so many of her fans there, and it is a country she might be never visited, but we love her music so much just as everyone else here does!
From Hong Kong and found the “city of China currently” interesting. Anyways, been an Anita fan since 2017, her voice and her music are just impeccable. “Lately” is my favorite. Good to know there are some Chinese guys into Anita✌🏼
I know I’ve said this before on here but it bears repeating. Her 1986 Rapture album is one of the best albums ever made. Not one bad song on the whole album. It’s the kind of album that you just put it on and press play. You don’t have to fast forward or skip a song. It’s a masterpiece sung by the great Anita Baker.
I appreciate her, and always have - especially since we have a career in common - and I do not mean singing! ("Rapture" - which this was originally from- was one of my travel cassettes.)
I'm French and for me Anita is such a fantastic and unique vocalist ! But like so many great voices : Carmel Mc Court , Toni Braxton , Bettye LaVette , she's less in the spotlight ...As we know ,the ladies that are permanently in the spotlights are the ones who dance half naked on stage , acting like sex objects and who have a tendency to say bitch every two words ...Even Madge can't stop saying bitch and cannot stop the porn cheap attitude !! So, classy acts such as Toni Braxton , Bettye LaVette or Anita Baker are less talked about than the over marketed Minaj & co ....
True in a way if you are referring to masses with no brains. I heard that Christina Auguilera popstar try to sing Etta James and she was a total flop trying to emulate her, but that video had over 7 million views with only a few comments that spoke the truth
Perfect pitch control. Graceful looks. Soulful performance. Amazing band. In a nut shell, Anita Baker is super freaking amazing. One of a kind. A legend.
When you don't have stage props, back up dancers, insane outfits, stand in one spot the entire concert and captivate the audience...THAT'S when you know you can SANG!!!!!...
They are the Perri sisters. They sang background for Ms. Baker for years. They also had an album in 1990 with the song "Someone Like You." It didn't go far but it was a solid single.
I was a young professional in my first job in L.A. in the 80's and in walks Anita Baker - nobody knew who she was except me! I had been listening to a radio station, all R&B and knew all her songs from Rapture. I grew up with this genre of music and I knew she was headed for stardom. She was at our building to get some outfits for her upcoming concerts. She had no idea how great she was. It was literally months before her record hit the charts. I got to escort her around a little. She said, "you know my music??". I said I cant believe I am meeting you- they play all your songs on such and such radio station. I knew she was going to be a star. Such a great memory.
I love her voice--it's perfect to me. Her range is great as she can go low and husky and all the way up there..talk about runs. It came out in 1986 on her album Rapture. I bought it. I love how she puts her whole body into this. She's a natural. Every wannabe who thinks high notes are so impressive should study this to see why going low is impressive. Then she adds those little growls. Her vocal control is outstanding. She's 28 years old here.
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What a good friend you are. The world is a better place because of people like you. God Richly Bless You. Hope Annie is doing well and in a better shape today. Sending love and prayers from Ghana❤
I cannot find a single fault in this performance. Sung truly from the heart. Anita Baker is a legend, it's people like her that make me fall in love with soul music.
D3IM2NTEII Absolutely agree, well said! I start each morning, with coffee and a play of this! Legend, as you say, and I have recently fallen in love, and this hits the button.... which is what 'soul' is all about.
I see where Toni Braxton got here style from. ANITA BAKER ruled the mid 80s and beyond. Hands down my favorite female singer. Her lyrics and singing style is like no other
+Debonair 1 Toni Braxton's song "Love Shoulda Brought You Home" was originally written for Anita Baker and Toni sang the demo vocals to emulate Anita's as closely as possible. Anita was pregnant at the time and couldn't record it, so she told Babyface to Toni record the song instead
I’m a Hong Kong 🇭🇰 born Chinese boy , I waked infront of the stage for her Toronto gig and gave my tie to Anita and said I love you Anita at least 3 times and ask her to sing Been So Long acapella 🫶 that was 1989
That is what you call a singer. Harmony, power, stage presence. No skinny dress or dancers everywhere. She makes it look so easy and fun. I miss her songs, her voice. Love u Anita.
Brings me back to being a child in the 80's. My Mom listening to this with a cigarette and cleaning the kitchen. My Mom passed great taste in music to me!!❤️❤️🙏🏻
Anita Baker is celebrating her 66th birthday today, January 26, 2024. She is an American singer-songwriter known for her soulful ballads, particularly from the height of the Quiet Storm period in the 1980s. Starting her career in the late 1970s with the funk band Chapter 8, Baker released her first solo album, The Songstress, in 1983. In 1986, she rose to fame following the release of her Platinum-selling second album, Rapture, which included the Grammy-winning single "Sweet Love". As of 2017, Baker has won eight Grammy Awards and has four Platinum albums, along with two Gold albums. Baker is a contralto with a wide range of octaves. She was born in Toledo, Ohio on January 26, 1958
Introduced this song/album to my then boyfriend, high school sweetheart, and now husband. Thirty-three years later, he still says that I mesmerized him with the music 😂❤
Thank u so for mentioning her dance. It is quite clearly a reflection of her soul it is sensuous, sassy, jazzy and contemporary and classical, it light and airy and there's a morning star shinning in there!
Beautiful lady, beautiful voice, beautiful song. It's amazing how she was able to hold that audience in the palm of her hand like that. I mean, she's not saying any F words or twerking half naked, covered in tattoos. I can't understand how she was able to sell so many records. Wow ! (sarcasm)
I grew up listening to Hendrix, Clapton, Doors, etc. But the first time I heard Anita Baker, the hairs on the back of my neck stood up. What a voice !! "Sweet Love" made me shed a tear too. Thank you, Anita !!!!!!
This lady an amazing singer, I felt like I was in a ride, going up and down , then taking a curve here and there, as she was going thru the notes, I don't n know how to explain it , she's incredible, soulful, and a electrifying performance.
I was at that concert on an incredible date with my son Bruce. I kissed him goodnight when he took me home. Some ladies from work saw us, said isn’t he a little young for you? 😍. He had his arm around me. I wore her albums out!! He is gone but the sweet memory of his sweet love lives on
Look at this amazing raw talent in vocal performance, she's not juggling, stripping, or going for the shock factor, she is simply singing what she knows. I'm 30 and heard her albums back to back as a kid, I kind of feel like that's why my expectations for Rhythm blues and soul are so high these days. I miss this.
There have been very few white female singers who had as much sex appeal, emotional range, intensity, depth, classiness or style as America's greatest black female singers. Lena Horne, Dorothy Dandridge, Ella Fitzgerald, Etta James, Billie Holliday, Eartha Kitt, Aretha Franklin, Whitney Houston, Anita Baker, Roberta Flack, Melba Moore, Sarah Vaughan, Natalie Cole, the Pointers Sisters, LaBelle, Minnie Riperton, Sade, Diana Ross, Dionne Warwick, Beyonce, Andra Day are among the greatest singers and members of black female groups of the past 65 years. Most of these women were style icons as well as phenomenal singers. You could make the case for Judy Garland, Barbra Streisand, Rosemary Clooney, Brenda Lee, Peggy Lee, Dusty Springfield, Cher, Janis Joplin, and Amy Winehouse, but very few other non-rock or non-folk white singers would make the grade.
There will never be a time like this again...when modesty was cherished and sexiness came from how you carried yourself not how much of your body you showed
I am so happy that am not the only one that thinks she's amazing.This performance takes my breath away even after so many years. She's just in a class of her own!
Legend. The way her growls and crescendos and swells blend into each other is so unique to her that you can't mistake that voice for anyone else's. It's like a hearing a master horn player completely in their element.
Many years ago I was a big fan of Sarah Vaughn. When she passed, I thought there would never be another singer like her....then along came Anita Baker. There will never be another singer like her.....
As far as I'm concerned, there's never been a more electrifying and sexier singer than my girl, Anita Baker, and she's always fully clothed. Good God Almighty!
***** In an interview I watched a while ago, when asked which artists does she listen to, she said that she only listens to real singers and listed a couple of names like Luther Vandross, Stevie Wonder and Anita Baker. I never knew who Anita Baker was so I googled her, came here and enjoyed her a lot.
James Ingram, Anita Baker, Mariah Carey, Whitney Houston, Stevie Wonder, Michael Jackson, Luther Vandross, Brian McKnight, Michael McDonald....the list goes on and on....I miss those day so much...where did music go man. Now I'm reduced to reminiscing on my computer longing for those days again
9/2024....Great sound! That's the female vocalist we speak of. That's the diva we men and women adore as we love a great performance. Not one twerk, no bbls, no wig! A true feminine artist. ❤❤❤❤ 🎶 🎵
Mom mom loved her music she would play this and start dancing to it when I was a kid ... Whenever I listen to this song it beings back memories of my mother .... RIP terry Blanco.
Film & Video have given us a window into the highest aspirations of the human spirit which these recordings of Anita's songs give us goosebumps, makes us tingle and our hair stand on end, transport us into heavenly realms.
It was such a pleasure watching this videos as a black man on Russian television in 1989. This clip was often played on Leningrad TV and it really brought to the Soviet Russians what they were missing in black American music. I guess Miss Baker contributed in her own small way to the demise of the USSR!
Anita's voice gives you goose bumps, damn! I respect this woman sooo much, she never wore the skimpy outfits etc... she just shock the hell out of you with her talent... I wish I was @ that concert, I would've been too young but who cares?! lol
YOU see something beautiful happening on stage, SHE performs like she's in some other, magical world, and I just can't stop the tears and musical frissons from taking a hold on me. Utterly magnificent!
Francisco, So true. Over the years I have noticed that even the best videos receive a 40 to 1 like to dislike rating. Some people just like being negative. I realize that no performer appeals to everyone. But, why would someone who does not like Anita Baker take the time to give a dislike rating to this performance? Who knows. Just thank your lucky stars that you are not one of those people and just continue to enjoy outstanding performances like this one.
