From the very beginning notes, Anita Baker’s voice draws me inside her songs. I hear the first few lyrics clearly, and then words are seductively swirled into the sound that is uniquely hers. The lyrics mix with the tones and shadings she skillfully blends to tell of love, and loss, desire and the fulfillment of that desire. She creates a vocal eddy that surrounds me, pulls me in, and I feel the song from the center moving out.
Is she inside the song as well? I have to think so; because,
she plumbs the depths of each musical phrase.
But, she never struggles in those depths; she maintains the beautiful balance
between feeling and musicianship.
I am lifted up on her highs and dip down with her lows and am
carried along in the natural flow of her singing. This experience listening
to Anita Baker’s music is all about the feeling when I’m within her musical
sound.
And, as her performance circles to a close I don’t want to
be turned loose—let it keep turning and taking me wherever it may lead.
Let the music reach completely around you and allow yourself
to become a part of what surrounds you as she sings “Soul Inspiration”
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