The Beauty of Song, Part Two: Soul singer Anita Baker

Anita Baker emerged in the eighties as one of the best female soul singers of the decade, and possibly the best singer in any genre of the time. To date, she has won eight Grammy Awards and she has to her credit four platinum albums and two gold albums.



Her second album, 1986's Rapture, was her commercial breakthrough, which she followed up with the similarly successful Giving You the Best That I Got two years later. Her hit singles include "Sweet Love," "Just Because," and Talk To Me." Although Anita Baker came out of the 1980s, she somehow managed to make it without scandalous videos on MTV - she relied exclusively on her talent.

Fun fact: Although Anita Baker is from Detroit, she became known for never having learned how to drive a car.