Against her family’s wishes, she dropped out of community college to pursue a singing career, performing in nightclubs with local bands and joining the funk group Chapter 8, with whom she toured for several years and recorded an album that included the hit “I Just Want to Be Your Girl.” Discouraged when the band was dropped by its record company, Baker ceased performing. She was one of the most popular artists in urban contemporary music, a genre that her sophisticated, tradition-oriented soul and rhythm-and-blues singing helped to define.īaker’s talent first became apparent when she sang in church choirs in Detroit, where she grew up.
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