Where is anita baker now

So happy birthday Anita Baker, sip that cup of coffee and smile as you sit on the beach. Welcome to the age of contentment Anita, it fits you well. Your email address will not be published. Connect with us. Share Tweet. Anita Baker asks fans not to stream or buy her music as she fights for her masters. A REVOLT previously reported , the legendary singer asked her fans not to stream or buy her music because she did not make any money from it. And, by Law Baker then gave fans a lesson on how the music industry really works by breaking down what each artist actually makes from streaming.

Many artists have acquired their masters from record labels. Later on Baker correctly concluded that their criticism could have masked any number of reasons that might through no fault of their own led to the group's dismissal, but at the time she was shattered by the turn of events.

She returned to Detroit, worked as a waitress, and then landed a stable position as a receptionist with a law firm whose members, understandably enough, liked the sound of her voice on the phone. In Baker was coaxed back into the music business by a former Ariola executive who started an independent label called Beverly Glen. Promising to make Baker a star, he offered to match her receptionist's salary, and Baker finally agreed to come to Los Angeles.

Her first solo album, The Songstress, was released in But Baker, still un-schooled in the frequently unscrupulous ways of the music business, received no royalties from the album and parted ways acrimoniously with Beverly Glen, a much-needed follow-up album still unreleased.

Hiring as her manager Sherwin Bash, a Hollywood veteran with the smarts to clear up the resulting legal problems, Baker signed with the Elektra label and threw herself wholeheartedly into her next project, the album Rapture, released in Gaining a reputation as pushy but consistently moving to gain control over her career, Baker supervised every aspect of the record's production. Filling the role of executive producer herself, a nearly unprecedented move for a rising but untested star, Baker chose Songstress collaborator Michael Powell as producer, and the two painstakingly selected songs that fit Baker's smooth, ultra-romantic, jazz-inflected vocal stylings.

They succeeded brilliantly. The singer was rewarded with two Grammy awards in , and by the end of Rapture had racked up sales of over five million units. Baker stretched herself with an appearance at Europe's prestigious Montreux Jazz Festival in , but the two albums that followed Rapture, Giving You the Best That I Got and Compositions followed basically the same path as their multi-platinum predecessor.

Compositions featured examples of Baker's songwriting, which had gained in technical skill since she had begun to take classes in music theory. The album gained for Baker the respect of jazz musicians, and caused some critics, such as Alex Henderson of the All Music Guide, to suggest that she should record an album of straight jazz. Both recordings again earned Grammy awards for Baker, who kept up a grueling schedule of concerts and personal appearances.

After one Detroit nightclub gig, Baker was greeted on her way to her dressing room by a persistent admirer who bought six copies of her album and asked her for a hug and then a date. She and this fan, Walter Bridgforth, were married on Christmas Eve of Back in March, Baker brought to her fans attention that she had outlived her recording contracts and was legally supposed to have her masters given back to her.

The Detroit-bred singer was referring to copyright reversion, which allows musicians to be given their copyrights after 35 years. With a master recording, you can license the recording to third parties, like TV shows, films, commercials or even for sampling use by other artists.

If your master belongs to someone else, like the record label, the music producer or sound engineer, then they have the right to license out the recording and collect the royalties. They need to Leave me alone. Amazon shoppers are living in these on-sale joggers: 'OMG these are the most comfortable pants I've ever owned! Dust like nobody's watching. Iskra Lawrence is sick and tired of retouching. Save up to 50 percent on air purifiers, weighted blankets and more.