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  • This how it's done Adele.

  • If you transported the pop stars of today back to the era of Anita,Phyllis,Whitney and Patti,they'd get SLAYED. Back them you had to be able to sing and do it well to compete.

  • This is REAL soul and thought provoking music. LOVE Ms Baker!

  • I love Anita Baker!!!!

  • Anita is so elegant! she's a Diva!

  • no cheat boxes or back tracks just anitas voice and the band AMAZING!!!

  • #242(Tie)

  • that keyboardist is a GIANT. bassist rules, whole band are Bosses.

  • Anita Baker= No skimpy outfit, no ass shaking, no auto tune, none that ridiculous up and down voice shaking to make it "SEEM" like she is a good singer. Anita was RAW TALENT!...something that is seriously missing in the music industry today!

  • Watching this in 2011 like if you are

  • What is not to like about his video???

  • I hope she will one day come over to the North sea Jazz festival in Holland in July

  • she sounds like if she is in a studio what a great singer

  • This song takes me away....

  • Wonderful singer and a great song.

  • Cant get enough of the guitar

  • love her adlibs 2:35 - 2:52

  • One of best songs ever written

  • her voice makes me feel all warm inside

  • Certainly is refreshing watching REAL TALENT and REAL MUSICIANS!

    Shame there is nothing that compares to THIS today!

  • Great!

  • WOW!! THis gives me Goosebumps, we need more artist who can get on stage and just sing it and atleast sound like there in the studio...

  • that bass guitar is baaadddd!!

  • MY JOINT!

    

  • Love it! Just sweet 100%

  • THIS IS HOW YOU SING LIVE !!!!!!!! VERY PUREEEE !

  • What bothers me most is that her voice has taken quite a nose dive. I understand that she's aged quite a bit since this performance, but I wish she still had this much control over her voice.

  • This was my favorite performance from Anita!! :)

  • this is what live music and talent is all about, not a replication of the album version, a dynamic performance by a dynamic performer, pure bliss!!!

  • SHE IS THE QUEEN OF WHAT ????

  • @t00muchredbull She's the queen of classy R&B

  • I think this was in 1986? She is awesome!

  • One of my all time favorite singers. With beauty, style, and class 2nd to none. That breathy, sexy voice of hers always makes me stop whatever I'm doing and just listen. Has she ever made the top 100 beautiful people? She should be near the top that's for sure.

  • This extraordinary voice falls into the female Barry White category. I love her every tune they are all deeply love embracing. and dedicated.Although Barry and Anita are a generation and a half apart a person can feel a chemistry.Alas it shall never be. The Maestro and Pavrotti did a concert together in their final years.Imagine BW and AB breathy vocalizalitions together. Gee I need a cold shower for some reason.

  • This kind of rapture has my full support!

  • Some people seem to be upset because the world didn't end tonight. Well, I don't know about the rest of y'all but I'm caught all up in the Rapture!

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  • Anita baker's voice is GOD! Excellent rapture elevator music :D

  • ROCK ON Anita! I love you! My generation cannot hold a candle to you!

  • @Mobee211 this beautiful voice was never recognized for her talent..i guess we know she is a diva,this gal can sing

    

  • CAN IT GET ANY BETTER THAN THAT?

  • What an experience, what a talent..if "mainstream" would only show a little bit of concern about quality, we would enjoy much more time-less stuff like this instead of the 3 weeks live-span crap of now days.

  • anita is a DIVA!!! she lights up the stage!

  • that when you needed to have a talent to be a star..i agree 100 %......am so sick of these crap we're geting now.....i will always love older singers......and thanks to Reba for out singing Beyonce in heer own song...(if i was a boy)......go reba

  • Man when I was growing up I was so in love Anita Baker (still am.) She is and always be my perfect definition of a soul singer!!

  • She is SO AWESOME... Pure class. NO crap going on behind her onstage...NO voice enhancements..ITS PURE ANITA , her own little moves, no slutty stuff going on..and this is what music is about.. not all this crap today.. i.e.-"Lady Gag me." Please....

  • A tune that was Smooth Jazz personified, and had a kick to the soul too. It was well done.

  • Anita is multi talented with her voice and phrasing with each song. What great feeling she expresses in each song that she sings.

    G.W.

  • Get it,Anita!

    Sigh. We used to demand that our singers be able to SANG. Now we accept chicks who sound like braying goats without Autotune and shake ass to cover up their goatish vocals.

    Look at Ms.Anita,elegant,beautiful and sounding LOVELY.

  • Anyone happen to know who the back-up singers are?

    

  • Anyone happen to know who the back-up singers are?

  • Anyone happen to know who the back-up singers are?

  • i love her lil dances she be doing. go anita honey

  • wow. i love this lady and her music. wow

  • Love it live

  • SONGS JUST AINT THE SAME THESE DAYS. ITS ALL ABOUT MONEY AND EGOS WITH THESE R&B/POP STARS. AUTOTUNES AND FIXING OF THE VOICES IN THE STUDIOS.

  • @1204justice YOU ARE SO RIGHT ABOUT THAT !

  • OMG 2:34 i love that part!!! NATURAL RANGE!! NO EAR PIECE!!! ANITA IS AMAZING!!!

  • Flawless Talent and Voice!!!!

  • Estimated friend, if you want to listen again this song and an endless number of successes of the love I suggest you to visit Radio MUSICA PARA MIMOS - looks for his direction URL in Google ( search Musica para Mimos in Google)-. best romantic music of all the times in Internet, is great, is very good ...!!!

  • Any time a track is better live than in studio is a tribute to the greatness of the artist.....thank you Anita!

  • Her music is timeless and I am so happy that she has started recording again, so an entire new group of people can appreciate this wonderful inspiring arist! She always gets me feeling better no matter what might be going on.

  • Caught up!!!!! Always great to go back here.

  • i get chills listening to her sing...WOW!!

  • what!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Artist like this do not exist!!!!!! do u hear her tone n range! Truly an inspiration!

  • She is just simply a beautiful woman with a beautiful voice. No need to add all the other bullshit on this blog.

  • No booty shaking...no back up dancers....no posse screaming behid her....just anita...the band...and the mic. Now thats real music!!!

  • @ttime2003

    You're trying to say that Tina Turner didn't produce some real music?

    She had a posse, back-up dancers, and some booty-shaking.

  • @kives1985 Well...Thats true. Tina is on a whole other planet! I love her too. I guess I mean from the stand point of today's artist. There arent many who could sell out concerts, if they were just standing on stage with a mic stand, singing. Even w/out all that stuff, Tina could sell out a stadium with just her music.

  • @ttime2003 WRONG.. anita got a nice booty and booty shake going at 4.00!

  • @ttime2003 could u picture if anita was doing some booty shaking while doing this. id probably still be down with her though

  • That guitar player is BOSS!

  • this song f***s me up

  • This beautiful voice IS NOT a American Idol idot! Those nitwits haven't paid any dues to grt where they are. They're the girl and guy next door who sings in the shower and have a CD hit the stores in a year.

  • I am not sure of the year here but the late 80's is a guess. She is absolutely on fire. I wonder the circumstances of that evenings performance? I am a singer and have been a fan for a number of years, I know she is not a drug gal and wonder if she got some shit from this performance? Definitely in the ZONE, that type of magic will make you seem zannie.

  • what happened to amazing singers like this

  • i love this song and im only 19 i love anita baker

  • Fine, Fine singer/song

  • I Love This SONG ~

  • <3 REAL MUSIC! 

  • lovely and soothing song

  • that nigga rippin that guitar to shreds love it

  • Watching legends like Anita Baker and others makes me wonder what the music industry has become when you have people like Kesha making songs ... if you ask me she needs to be in an AA meeting instead of the recording studio making songs about getting drunk and doing stupid stuff ... i may only be 15 but this is the kindof music i love to listen to

  • @DeDreazyForce LEGEND? I think not. maybe a good artist.

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  • One of the best contemporary female vocalists. She's fabulous.

  • Yes Anita Sing Gurl

  • she a LEGEND indeed!

  • So. Good.

  • Anita Baker is and will always be one of the best R&B Soul Sista's Ever, I have loved her music since Chapter 8, that's how far we go back. She is not a Diva, SHE is a TRUE LADY OF SOUL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Dig It?

  • Absolutely wonderful. This music is so timeless. Ms. Baker is in a league of her own. No one holds a candle to her. Music like this will never fade away.

  • I absolutely love Anita Baker. Her music takes me back to the time my husband and I were dating, such great memories! Even now her music brings a smile to my face. We have seen her in concert several times and she is such a great performer. We even took our two sons to see her and they enjoyed the concert too. What a classy lady.

  • YOU GOT THAT RIGHT, MrNitro!!!

  • Back when you had to be able to sing. Remember the time.

  • Love it!!!! This is real singing. My generation.

  • ja, inderdaad !

  • LOVE ANITA AND HER MUSIC IS GREAT

  • que vós perfeita... mto linda msm!

  • Because there are times, i even amaze myself, when i sing Anita's songs. In any case, i have the original tapes, NOT Cd's from when most of her albums debuted. To which i still sing along with, when i'm in my car or entertaining company. Anita's a legendary & soulful woman, that will ALWAYS have a special place in my heart, and music collection for a long, long, time.......:)

  • I just LOVE this woman's voice, and always have i guess. She is just fantastic, with her "unique voice", that there really is know one i can think of, that comes close to her style of singing. For a white boy, my friends often tell me, how much i sound like her when i sing, so i guess thats a compliment. Because i never "toot my own horn", regarding my voice. Which many people believe, is a gift from God above, and i never question that part of it.

  • She's THE VOICE!!!Classy!!!Come Anita,where have you been???

  • Hey Baby, Baby! Love it

  • five star musical arrangements for this pece of pure art. When she announce the guitar solo and she's going to dance side stage ....wow super sexyshiver!!!!!

    Capolavoro!!!!!

  • From a time when you actually had to have tallent to be a star... 100% A+, I love it.

  • @MrNightro - I couldn't agree more. The mid eighties were a great time, especially for songs from the heart. A great post, Respect :)

  • @MrNightro

    Ugh, yeah, I think Paula Abdul would beg to differ with you. : )

  • @MrNightro I know that's right. These so-called divas of today wouldn't be anything without autotune and good producers. Recording albums of nothing but bland, generic uninspired pop tunes does not a diva make. Anita is a diva, hands down.

  • @MrNightro Amen! You said a mouth full! Before Autotune "fixed you in the mix".

  • This women is epic!

  • Do it Mommie... I love it!! Real talent and Grace! WOW!

  • My favorite song it bring back special moments in my life and nobody can sing better other than you Anita Baker.Your vocal on this song was Magnificent!!!

  • I like sweet love better but this is well composed all the same ...we are at a shortage of outstanding vocalist's in this genre as a whole.

  • @dadonofdachi74

    Amen. When I sit back and enjoy r&b vocalists like Baker and those who came before her ,i just sit and shake my head at the crop of women we have ruling the music charts today parading as "artists" and "vocalists" . It's ridiculous the emphasis (or lack thereof) not placed on talent to be a famous singer these days.

  • @stylecollective

    Different class so true. Sends something up your spine

  • Best of Anita's songs !

  • most beautiful voice of all Time

  • I just watched her on Monique she is a beautiful spirit ad she still has hit.

  • That voice ministers to my heart like no other, IMO Anita Baker is one the GREATEST female soul artiste to ever set foot on this planet...

  • what a tender voice! very relaxing, cheers

  • Unbelievable! Anita's voice brings tears to my eyes. So much emotion and passion and TALENT!

  • all I can say is shes amazing,and the way she perform it just coming from her heart! =))

  • i wish i was born den, im only 19, i wud love 2 go see her if she stil sung

  • @converseshoeboy She still does perform, just saw her at the Essence Festival in New Orleans a few months ago.

  • really? thats awesome

  • she has such a beautiful voice. its soothing to hear her sing.

  • she is absolutely amazing.

  • Please marry me Anita

  • The Songstress!

  • Anita did her thing. But they should have let the bass player do the solo. He was on it

  • Yo her backup singer on the far right be jammin

  • how does she do that?

  • Her voice was off!

  • Where is the album version? In general when they perform live they mess up.

  • @ifusukilltellu.... Yeah u caught it huh! The thing with Anita is that she's good at singing off key at times and most people wont catch it because she is amazing and her voice is unique and soothing. A professional with an ear will catch that flaw tho!! Im sure the musicians up there here it but I'm a big fan anyway cause she can still sing her ass off, regardless!! Saw her three times live in this era and personally met her in Atlanta. Incredibly stunning to look at, too!!

  • the guiter en the vocals are so awesome

  • this song is awesome

  • Thi$ i$ my $hyt

  • INCREDIBLE!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Live. Wow. Just wow.

  • One of my favorite Anita Baker songs.

  • ONLY..IF.. your lucky will uall get old..

  • well she is kinda cool , considering the age difference!!! No Offence 00 INtended

  • Im playin dis on my sax... Check it out!!! This is my Mons Favorite artist RIP mama!!!!!

  • Ummmmmm I do not know even know what to say. The placement of her voice, the tone, the love for the music GEEEEEEEPERS. Gosh she makes me want to sing the alphabet with passion. I love Ms. Baker

  • the girl jammin thats it thats all

  • she is ABSOLUTELY DIVINE

  • Great Musicianship, great performer!

  • Que maravilha, a trilha sonora que embalava os meus namoros, saudades.

  • STRAIT LEGEND

  • what happned to music like this?

  • got old.

  • auto tune happened :]

  • That made my day, as sad as that fact is....

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  • I belive she is very talanted God blessed her..

  • just perfect! who could ask for more? sing it anita!

  • Aww yess! Luv Anita..but I swear sometimes I didn't know what she was saying..she was like a female Michael McDonald..lol! (and I love Michael too..but dont front..sometimes the lyrics didn't always quite come out clear...j/k..I luv anita

  • Oh thats hilarious LOL you're right, that is who she sounds like but female.

  • Love Anita Baker. Bought the tape twice i loved it so much. Makes me sad when I hear this song. Heard it in my sleep moving from Gary, IN to Milwaukee.

  • Sing Ms Baker, Sing Baby!!!

  • I love this song... She may not be one of my favorites but watching this live performance really shows me that I love how natural she is... So natural

  • I love that dress. :D

  • Rapture is of the heart.

  • So much passion!

  • One of the best voices of all time.

  • Please, please come to the UK - saw you many years ago - fantastic! :)

  • Please come visit London sometime soon!

  • The greatest female alto of all time in my opinion. Such a unique sound...."nothing else can compare...".