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Erica Abi Wright (born February 26, 1971), [2] known professionally as Erykah Badu (/ ˈ ɛr ɪ k ə b ɑː ˈ d uː /), is an American singer and songwriter.Influenced by R&B, soul, and hip hop, [2] Badu rose to prominence in the late 1990s when her debut album Baduizm (1997), placed her at the forefront of the neo soul movement, earning her the nickname "Queen of Neo Soul" by music critics.
The Vortex Tour was a worldwide tour by American R&B/soul singer Erykah Badu in support of her Platinum selling 2008 album, New Amerykah Part One (4th World War). [1] [2] The U.S. tour kicked off May 4, in Detroit, MI ending on June 15, in Albuquerque, N.M. [3] The second leg of tour reached Europe on June 25, in Copenhagen, Denmark.
Died. February 27, 2021. (2021-02-27) (aged 48) Montego Bay, Jamaica. Education. Columbia College Chicago ( BA, MA) Erica Faye Watson (February 26, 1973 – February 27, 2021) was an American actress, comedian and writer. She is best known for her roles in Precious and Chi-Raq.
Amiriyah shelter bombing. The Amiriyah shelter bombing[N 1] was an aerial bombing attack that killed at least 408 civilians on 13 February 1991 during the Gulf War, when an air-raid shelter ("Public Shelter No. 25") in the Amiriyah neighborhood of Baghdad, Iraq, was destroyed by the U.S. Air Force with two GBU-27 Paveway III laser-guided "smart ...
UNESCO Nadezhda K. Krupskaya literacy prize' was named after Russian politician of the Soviet era Nadezhda K. Krupskaya. The prize was sponsored by the government of the Soviet Union in the period 1970-1992. The prize was offered in UNESCO along with Mohammad Reza Pahlavi Shah of Iran literacy prize which was offered until the Iranian ...
Life and career. An ethnic Kurd and a native of Diyala Governorate, he began studying calligraphy in 1959, and moved to Baghdad in 1963, where he gave his first exhibition in 1965. He later graduated from the Fine Arts Institute of Baghdad, and proceeded to work for the State Directorate for the Plastic Arts in the 1980s. [1]