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Anita Baker
Known for her controlled but adventurous singing style full of depth, colour and
emotion, Anita Baker was among the most celebrated R&B, soul and jazz singers
from her debut in the early 1980s until her retirement in 2017. She has had 27
singles on Billboard's Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs Chart and ten on the Hot 100 with
ten records on the Top R&B/Hip-Hop Albums Chart and eight on the Billboard 200.
She has had 18 Grammy Award nominations with eight wins.
Born in Ohio, she grew up in a single-parent home in Detroit, Michigan, where
she began singing at neighbourhood churches as a ch...
