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Lead Performance: Erykah Badu

ERYKAH BADU (Kedar/Universal) When a new artist sings the blues without pop-driven gimmicks, she can't miss. Badu's nouvelle-soul debut hits the target, blows it up, reinvents it. Sweetly cooing over Ron Carter's walking bass rhythms and the Roots' poetic wordplay, the singer echoes Lady Day -- especially in her phrasing and cadence. But her ruminative, more than rueful, blues and jazzy, esoteric hip-hop are all Badu. A

Posted Feb 14, 1997

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