"Timeless" comes to mind pretty easily. Most women with a voice like that are total divas, but she clearly is feeling every moment with her soul, not her ego
Anita Baker is celebrating her 66th birthday today, January 26, 2024. She is an American singer-songwriter known for her soulful ballads, particularly from the height of the Quiet Storm period in the 1980s. Starting her career in the late 1970s with the funk band Chapter 8, Baker released her first solo album, The Songstress, in 1983. In 1986, she rose to fame following the release of her Platinum-selling second album, Rapture, which included the Grammy-winning single "Sweet Love". As of 2017, Baker has won eight Grammy Awards and has four Platinum albums, along with two Gold albums. Baker is a contralto with a wide range of octaves. She was born in Toledo, Ohio on January 26, 1958
Damn, she ain't even straining! And, I don't even see no throat veins popping up in her neck! SHE'S BAD! 👊🏾💥👊🏾 Saw her in concert way back in the day. She is AWESOME! 🎶🎙🎶🎙🎶
@@thedodoberd thank you! I am a Contralto myself and I'm writing a book about the Contralto singing voice, the rarest and unique of all among female voices
The first time I heard this woman sing, it was this song and I understood what sailors would have heard when they listened to the mythical sirens. I played it over and over, never tiring, imagining all the while that she was singing to me. Here I am now in 2023 experiencing it all over. Wow, she is all that and a matured fine wine. ❤
Me paso lo mismo la descubrí en un video de un concierto hace más de 20 años y cantando está canción...desde ahí soy su hincha número 1...Anita for ver...acá desde Perú...
Check her out here > I was her perform live in London in 86 when she was in her prime, this vid still brings tears to my eyes, she' devine. Njoy. th-cam.com/video/iXw9olWJ0Ak/w-d-xo.html
One of the most underrated vocal talents I’ve ever heard in music. The jazzy innovations she adds along with the passion and soul altogether makes me feel if her voice was a woman I’d marry her. She’s such a staple of musical elegance and talent. Love me some Anita Baker!
Baker teamed with former Chapter 8 bandmate Michael Powell for her wonderful Elektra debut, Rapture, released on March 20, 1986. It was an instant classic that virtually defined adult soul for the next decade and thrust Baker to the forefront of popular music. The first single, "Watch Your Step," was a moderate Soul hit, but it was the catchy follow up ballad, "Sweet Love," that brought across-the-board attention to the album and resulted in Baker winning 1986 Grammy Awards for best R&B Female Vocalist and best R&B Song. A legendary career was cemented with Rapture. The album still sounds great all these years later and Anita Baker remains a part of our lives as an all-time singer supreme.
One of the most incredible vocalist of all time performing live a song that is totally and utterly perfect in every way. Doesn't get any better than this...
I just found this a week ago and I've watched it at least a dozen times, just beautiful! Killer band and one of the greatest singers and songs of all time. Thank you!
our Queeen never ages woww .. sooo sooo soooo good. BLESSSSSSS .. this song OMG, I remember where i was when this dropped in New Zealand and Australia .. LOVE YOU.
One of the greatest vocalists the world will ever witness, loved the arrangement too and the backing singers were as close to perfection as Anita could have wished for. Jools Holland is a wonderful musician, but this show he fronts and probably created or at the very list helped strongly to create, is a diamond standard for popular music, and is full of gems like this.
I was and still in Love with this beautiful Lady.In the late 80s all could do was listen to her tunes over and over.Still got em CDs.God bless her with good Health and long life.
Graças à Deus os anos se passaram mas eles nos deixou Anita Baker e suas canções Maravilhosas. Te Amo minha Queen. Obrigada por você existir. Aqui do Brasil
🌟💫✨😶🌫️✨💫🌟 A Truly Incredible Phenomenal, Artist 🌟 !!! I saw her in 1986 at the HOLIDAY STAR THEATER, in Merrillville Indiana !!! Words can't describe how Wonderful that SHOW was !!! 👉🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟
O timbre e voz intacta banda afiada tbm baterista esperando o sinal no final pra quebrar tudo top demais a versão um pouco mais rapida e swingada mas boa ainda!!!
I’ve listened to this several times and am just amazed at the live instrumentation. Each instrument plays a vital role- piano, guitar, bass, drums, percussion, keyboard, background vocals and Anita’s amazing voice - unbelievable!!!
Gosh she's wonderful. This what Voice and Singer is and of course a great song. Many many good singers from the past. Thank God many people still appreciate good songs. Nowadays we just have commercial singers and bad ones unfortunately.
Noite fria em SP curtindo essa linda voz de Anita Baker , som pra se curtir de qualquer forma em qualquer lugar rs ! Sweet Love 🎶❤ , o Brasil 🇧🇷 te ama !
Maravilhosa amo essa cantora tem o paixão por ela e tem uma grande admiração por tudo isso dessas alegrias dessas músicas maravilhosas que ela traz que desde muita saúde a ela e que eu quero continuar com ela cantando
Only a truly magnificent talent could make such skillful singing seem so effortless. Anita deserves more acclaim and commercial success than she has achieved and I say that knowing that her albums have gone multiplatinum. She's just that good.
She purposefully spread out her albums to raise her kids, she has won many Grammys across categories (R&B, Gospel and for her Christmas album), just sold out her concerts in minutes, she’s a living legend. Beyond her voice, she wrote many of her songs (like Swwet Love) and now owns all her masters, a rarity in music world. She still sounds amazing into her mid 60s now
Graças à Deus os anos se passaram mas eles nos deixou Anita Baker e suas canções Maravilhosas. Muitíssimo obrigada minha Queen . Te Amo. Aqui do Brasil ❤❤❤
Anita Baker one of the best female singers of the 1990s. She is so sophisticated, elegant and classy singer.
Totally a classy singer!
80s you mean
@@jmm9756 yes 80s and 90s.
This woman's voice is a beautiful musical instrument. And her brain scans time in a different way than most human beings.
Yep
"Timeless" comes to mind pretty easily. Most women with a voice like that are total divas, but she clearly is feeling every moment with her soul, not her ego
Apaixonada por soul e Anita Backer
Utter beauty. 🎵🎙Absolute Class!❣🎼
Did Anita Baker write this song ?
Anita Baker is celebrating her 66th birthday today, January 26, 2024. She is an American singer-songwriter known for her soulful ballads, particularly from the height of the Quiet Storm period in the 1980s. Starting her career in the late 1970s with the funk band Chapter 8, Baker released her first solo album, The Songstress, in 1983. In 1986, she rose to fame following the release of her Platinum-selling second album, Rapture, which included the Grammy-winning single "Sweet Love". As of 2017, Baker has won eight Grammy Awards and has four Platinum albums, along with two Gold albums. Baker is a contralto with a wide range of octaves. She was born in Toledo, Ohio on January 26, 1958
This looks so recent 🤩time flies!!!
From Brazil!
Damn, she ain't even straining! And, I don't even see no throat veins popping up in her neck! SHE'S BAD!
👊🏾💥👊🏾 Saw her in concert way back in the day. She is AWESOME! 🎶🎙🎶🎙🎶
Her voice flows like honeyed wine and cigarette smoke from a Virginia Slim. She has a very distinctive contralto singing voice!
beautifully said
@@thedodoberd thank you! I am a Contralto myself and I'm writing a book about the Contralto singing voice, the rarest and unique of all among female voices
@@thedodoberd more like overdone. It's a song not a poetry jam
Imma try this.thanx
@arxsyn hey have you wrote the book? I’m a contralto
The first time I heard this woman sing, it was this song and I understood what sailors would have heard when they listened to the mythical sirens. I played it over and over, never tiring, imagining all the while that she was singing to me. Here I am now in 2023 experiencing it all over. Wow, she is all that and a matured fine wine. ❤
I can't stop hearing this song. I've for 6 hours😮😅. She's extraordinary!!!
Me paso lo mismo la descubrí en un video de un concierto hace más de 20 años y cantando está canción...desde ahí soy su hincha número 1...Anita for ver...acá desde Perú...
Check her out here > I was her perform live in London in 86 when she was in her prime, this vid still brings tears to my eyes, she' devine. Njoy. th-cam.com/video/iXw9olWJ0Ak/w-d-xo.html
I so honored to have seen her live in concert! She’s everything 🙌🏾🙌🏾🙌🏾🙌🏾🙌🏾
You are SO lucky !
Me too.in the 80s
@@burlhorse61in the round at Wembley?
@@bobmutton9037 yh Wembley arena
@@burlhorse61 Hammersmith odeon for me, she was more like this back then >th-cam.com/video/iXw9olWJ0Ak/w-d-xo.html
The way age has mellowed her voice is quite stunning...it's even more sultry, I'm in love!
It might be partly bcos she wrote the song.
I felt that!!
she finds ways to do it differently and still gets the band to stay in the pocket.
I like the original way she sung it. This is kinda frustrating because I can’t sing along with her ugghhh
My Favorite song of hers. 2021 and eighty years of old and still listen to her alot
Exactly!!!!
Young modern singers take note. This is how you do it. Effortless but all the heart and soul you could desire. No silly vocal pyrotechnics.
I live that Angelic Voice.. God is still blessing Anita. Never Give Up...
Leave the religiosity out of it and just enjoy the Queen Hue-Man do her thang!
All you need is a hot tub, bottle of champagne and Anita belting out love songs! Magical. Thank you Anita
Her voice sounds brighter than I remember.
The voice changes with age and use. It's a different interpretation of Sweet Love, but I love it none the less. ❤️
She gets quite animated in this performance, so much fun 😅
Every band member has such respect, and really enjoying the groove 😉 great to see 👍
The little look across from the keys at 1:27, superb
And the BGVs Kicking it!
God I love this woman. Such a voice. ❤❤❤❤
Anita Baker is my all time favorite singer. Have never been disappointed in her music.
I love Anita!. A timeless voice; smooth, beautiful, perfection.
One of the most underrated vocal talents I’ve ever heard in music. The jazzy innovations she adds along with the passion and soul altogether makes me feel if her voice was a woman I’d marry her. She’s such a staple of musical elegance and talent. Love me some Anita Baker!
Underrated? Hardly.
8 Grammys, 4 platinum,and 2 gold albums.
There's that oh so popular wrongly used word again...
Baker teamed with former Chapter 8 bandmate Michael Powell for her wonderful Elektra debut, Rapture, released on March 20, 1986. It was an instant classic that virtually defined adult soul for the next decade and thrust Baker to the forefront of popular music. The first single, "Watch Your Step," was a moderate Soul hit, but it was the catchy follow up ballad, "Sweet Love," that brought across-the-board attention to the album and resulted in Baker winning 1986 Grammy Awards for best R&B Female Vocalist and best R&B Song. A legendary career was cemented with Rapture. The album still sounds great all these years later and Anita Baker remains a part of our lives as an all-time singer supreme.
People have tried but no one sings this song like Anita Baker. The epitome of a perfect love song. Just so smoooooth.
Kudos to the band members.
ANITA'S VOICE IS LIKE A WINE!❤
One of the most incredible vocalist of all time performing live a song that is totally and utterly perfect in every way.
Doesn't get any better than this...
I just stumbled into this. This is amazing. Thank you angel called TH-cam Algorithm.
Top-shelf favorite singer and performer! I COULDN'T STOP LISTENING TO THIS VIDEO!!!!!
Seen her twice in concert. She has an amazing voice that gets better with time
Saw her once
I just found this a week ago and I've watched it at least a dozen times, just beautiful! Killer band and one of the greatest singers and songs of all time. Thank you!
Athletico Paranaense
Yes Madame! You did that!!! You still gat it! My ears were, and still are blessed to hear Anita Baker's beautiful voice!
Hello, from the Bahamas!
passeranno gli anni, come è inevitabile, ma la grazia dei movimenti, il portamento, la classe non tramonterà mai.
Excellent great drummer 🥃
Ricky Lawson ?
our Queeen never ages woww .. sooo sooo soooo good. BLESSSSSSS .. this song OMG, I remember where i was when this dropped in New Zealand and Australia .. LOVE YOU.
What..a voice! I love Anita!
Everything is just ageless kuloMama, siyakuthanda eNingizimu Afrikha🇿🇦🇿🇦🇿🇦🇿🇦🇿🇦♥️♥️♥️♥️♥️🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹
Phenomenal genius in music!
This Gorgeous super talented Goddess... shes beautiful here🥰🥰 With all my heart I love you ANITA!!!
The Incomparable Anita Baker! ❤
If music and artist were rated based on their skills and level of authenticity and love of and for music, these kind of songs would still top charts
One of the greatest vocalists the world will ever witness, loved the arrangement too and the backing singers were as close to perfection as Anita could have wished for.
Jools Holland is a wonderful musician, but this show he fronts and probably created or at the very list helped strongly to create, is a diamond standard for popular music, and is full of gems like this.
I was and still in Love with this beautiful Lady.In the late 80s all could do was listen to her tunes over and over.Still got em CDs.God bless her with good Health and long life.
I’ve over her music from the first time I heard her in the 80’s. Smooth, beautiful, perfection.
anita, simply, in any volume of voice, at any age, in any era, band in complete pocket, backgrounds in sweet groove--honey on my soul.
Graças à Deus os anos se passaram mas eles nos deixou Anita Baker e suas canções Maravilhosas. Te Amo minha Queen. Obrigada por você existir. Aqui do Brasil
🌟💫✨😶🌫️✨💫🌟
A Truly Incredible Phenomenal,
Artist 🌟 !!!
I saw her in 1986 at the HOLIDAY STAR THEATER, in
Merrillville Indiana !!!
Words can't describe how Wonderful that SHOW was !!!
👉🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟
Will seem like yesterday.....she is brilliant
Que som agradável, o piano, o contra-baixo, as vozes.... Irrepreensíveis! Bom gosto demais ....
Best female singer, you can listen to her song 200 years from now
It's been her all the time - my all time favourite singer, I love her🤍
I saw her at her concert in Raleigh, NC back in 2004 at the All-tell Amphi-theater. She was awesome!😀 😃 😄 😁😍 🥰
A timeless song straight from the heart
How about that great band also. Talk about perfection
You could tell she was really vibing with them too, such a thrill to watch, lucky audience! :-)
This is my music for my life.
Pure bliss 🤘🏿
Wonderful!
O timbre e voz intacta banda afiada tbm baterista esperando o sinal no final pra quebrar tudo top demais a versão um pouco mais rapida e swingada mas boa ainda!!!
That voice Anita. I fell in love with this album when I was 5 years old and it still gives me goosebumps.
This is an amazing performance of one of my all time favorites
She is a total goddess.
I’ve listened to this several times and am just amazed at the live instrumentation. Each instrument plays a vital role- piano, guitar, bass, drums, percussion, keyboard, background vocals and Anita’s amazing voice - unbelievable!!!
Linda Anita, bela voz... amo essa música
She channels the essence of Soul
One of greatest & purest female voices of all time. ❤Miss Randy Crawford is up there as well….
What are unique and saucy voice! There is only one Anita Baker
What a voice ,I love her💕💕💕💕!!!!!
Gosh she's wonderful. This what Voice and Singer is and of course a great song. Many many good singers from the past. Thank God many people still appreciate good songs. Nowadays we just have commercial singers and bad ones unfortunately.
So honored to met her in Milan at the end of her live concert in Smeraldo Theatre
❤Maravillosa cancion, hermoza dama con una voz perfecta❤
I love you Anita Baker 😍👍👏👏👏👏 beautiful music 🎶
Versão deliciosa, de uma música maravilhosa, na voz e na interpretação de uma cantora espetaculosa! Uhuu
Noite fria em SP curtindo essa linda voz de Anita Baker , som pra se curtir de qualquer forma em qualquer lugar rs ! Sweet Love 🎶❤ , o Brasil 🇧🇷 te ama !
I love Anita. Her voice is simply amazing
Anita's Old School Music is always a joy to hear & sing along🎉😊
what an ensamble, what a taste, what a singer...what a everything!!!
Love Her 💜
Well, you won’t find anita performer than this lady! Perfect! Thanks Anita, you are the best!
My favorite song
Her voice is the smoothest chocolate- always loved her
Beautiful song, forever
2004?! Damn this video quality looks like from this year 😮
🇧🇷 Simplesmente Espetacular!!!
Amazing!!! You are one of my favorite singers of all time Anita.
She's my fav singer. So effortless smooth and classy. ❤
What voice and what a songstress, on fire madam❤❤
Maravilhosa amo essa cantora tem o paixão por ela e tem uma grande admiração por tudo isso dessas alegrias dessas músicas maravilhosas que ela traz que desde muita saúde a ela e que eu quero continuar com ela cantando
Never tired listening to her voice, this song particularly. Its been on all my song playlists.
Que voz linda, top ! 🤩
You feel it in your body gives you chills rest in peace to my mum she loved this song I always get emotional when I hear this
Only a truly magnificent talent could make such skillful singing seem so effortless. Anita deserves more acclaim and commercial success than she has achieved and I say that knowing that her albums have gone multiplatinum. She's just that good.
She purposefully spread out her albums to raise her kids, she has won many Grammys across categories (R&B, Gospel and for her Christmas album), just sold out her concerts in minutes, she’s a living legend. Beyond her voice, she wrote many of her songs (like Swwet Love) and now owns all her masters, a rarity in music world. She still sounds amazing into her mid 60s now
Phenomenal. Even better with age. My God, just excellent. 👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽
Perhaps the best love song of all time.
GREAT GREAT GREAT SINGER !!!!!!!! ❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤
Linda demais essa música ❤
MARAVILHOSA
Muito bom! Viva Anita Baker!
Spiritual music
Graças à Deus os anos se passaram mas eles nos deixou Anita Baker e suas canções Maravilhosas. Muitíssimo obrigada minha Queen . Te Amo. Aqui do Brasil ❤❤❤
One of the very best!!!!!
Amazing 💛
Maravilhosa
Her skin is perfect,love you Anita.
Eu amo todas músicas dela
Increíble voz de Anita, esto si es música no lo que hacen ahora.
Música de qualidade. Amo música assim. 🤩
Beautiful, fantastic