About the Anita Baker Pages
This site is primarily targeted at fans of Anita Baker's music and,
more widely, soul music. Anita Baker helped shape the "Quiet Storm" genre in the early eighties, which was
essentially smooth, love-heavy, adult contemporary soul music. Though Anita Baker enjoyed significant popular and critical
acclaim,
her music was very different from the pop norm of the time. A lot of her work tended to be jazzy and infused with all the
sadness, pain and longing that can come from love-gone-wrong. While these were perfect vehicles for her deep, sultry
voice, they were far from the cheerful, bouncy music that predominated in the popular charts.
Anita Baker's last recording was in 1994 and since then, there has been a gradual dearth of material about
her available on the Internet. Countless searches using different search engines have produced
scattered bits of information and only one real web site to speak of. From several online discussion groups, I know there
are many people out there who love her music and would appreciate an online portal, that provides more information than what is
widely available. Aside from the standard biographical information, I plan on providing magazine articles, audio and video clips
from interviews, album listings and reviews, lyrics of songs, and links to related materials. Eventually, I plan to
include a discussion board for fans to exchange information.
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