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Summer Spirit Festival 2012 with Erykah Badu, Common, Estelle, Sharon Jone and the Dap-Kings, Eric Roberson, Chuck Brown
Saturday, Aug 4, 2012 3:00p
Merriweather Post Pavilion
Columbia,
MD
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Erykah Badu
She grew up listening to '70s soul and '80s hip-hop, but Erykah Badu drew more comparisons to Billie Holiday upon her breakout in 1997, after the release of her first album, Baduizm. The grooves and production on the album are bass-heavy R&B, but Badu's languorous, occasionally tortured vocals and delicate phrasing immediately removed her from the legion of cookie-cutter female R&B singers....
She grew up listening to '70s soul and '80s hip-hop, but Erykah Badu drew more comparisons to Billie Holiday upon her breakout in 1997, after the release of her first album, Baduizm. The grooves and production on the album are bass-heavy R&B, but Badu's languorous, occasionally tortured vocals and delicate phrasing immediately removed her from the legion of cookie-cutter female R&B singers....
Common
Best known for his individualistic promulgation of jazz-rap during the 1990s — a decade when gangsta rap threatened to take over much of the urban music scene — underground rapper Common attained recognition for the sophisticated lyrics and ever-present political subtexts in his raps....
Best known for his individualistic promulgation of jazz-rap during the 1990s — a decade when gangsta rap threatened to take over much of the urban music scene — underground rapper Common attained recognition for the sophisticated lyrics and ever-present political subtexts in his raps....
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