Thursday, May 15, 2014

Anita Baker - Sweet Love: The Very Best of Anita Baker


Well this is a woman with a remarkable life story. Growing up, listening to Sarah Vaughan and Ella Fitzgerald, wanting to become a singer and finally make it when able to join Chapter 8, one of the leading acts in Detroit at the time. But when Chapter 8 finally had the chance to release one album on the Ariola label, the band got dumped immediately when the Arista label took over Ariola. 

Back to the gutter for Anita working lousy and low paid jobs to stay alive until she found a better job working as a secretary for a law firm. Happy with that she was not interested when a guy of the name of Otis Smith, a former executive of Chapter 8 contacted her to join his new label, but after hesitating for a while music and singing started to tickle enough and she went for it.

She released one album that did not do even that much, but enough to build a fan base and draw the attention of major label Elektra. The rest is history. She became one of the major R&B stars in the late eighties, won numerous awards and many of her albums reached the platinum status.

Track
Artist
Song
BPM







1
Anita Baker
Caught Up in the Rapture
91
2
Anita Baker
Giving You the Best That I Got
105
3
Anita Baker
Sweet Love
178
4
Anita Baker
Body and Soul
109
5
Anita Baker
Just Because
85
6
Anita Baker
I Apologize
154
7
Anita Baker
Rhythm of Love
93
8
Anita Baker
Soul Inspiration
104
9
Anita Baker
Lead Me Into Love
156
10
Anita Baker
Angel
162
11
Anita Baker
Same Ole Love (365 Days a Year)
96
12
Anita Baker
Fairy Tales
94
13
Anita Baker
Talk to Me
94
14
Anita Baker
Good Enough
83
15
Anita Baker
No More Tears
138
16
Anita Baker
When You Love Some One
119
17
Anita Baker
You Bring Me Joy
134
18
Anita Baker
No One in the World
90

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