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A Personal And Private Look At ANITA BAKER NOT too long ago, sultry singer Anita Baker was mainly concerned about paying her rent. Today, she doesn’t have to worry about how to pay for her new Jaguar XJS or her beautiful three-story home on Lake St. Clair in Grosse Pointe, Mich. But she is paying the price of fame and fortune as one of the music industry’s hottest commodities. Ms. Baker’s voice is a rich, romantic contralto, her songs are steeped in passion and feeling. Her current Giving You The Best That I Got LP has sold almost four million copies, gaining on her successful 1986 Rapture album, which sold more than five million. In addition, she has earned five Grammy Awards, two NAACP Image Awards, four Soul Train Music Awards, and two American Music Awards. In an interview at the ritzy Peninsula Hotel in New York, the high-spirited singer readily acknowledges that her rapid rise to the top in the volatile music industry did not come without a price. She is paying dearly with hard w
commercialappeal.com: Anita Baker’s love ballads arrive just in time Pre-Valentine’s show will unwrap sweet sounds * By Mark Jordan In the ’80s and early ’90s, perhaps no artist embodied romance more completely than Anita Baker, the Grammy-winning singer who brings her brand of sophisticated R&B balladry to the DeSoto Civic Center Saturday for a pre-Valentine’s Day concert. Joining Baker on the bill will be comedian Jay Lamont, whose credits include appearances on BET’s “ComicView,” “Showtime At The Apollo” and “Russell Simmons’ Def Comedy Jam.” Baker was not always the voice of love. She started her career in the Detroit band Chapter 8, which played a little bit of everything, including funk and disco. Chapter 8 was one of Detroit’s most promising acts in the late ’70s and early ’80s, but when Arista Records acquired the band’s label, it dropped the group, reportedly singling out Baker’s vocals as a strike against them. Baker go
