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Erykah Badu

"I believed in myself, and I've always worked very, very hard as an artist, and I am an artist in every sense of the word."

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"I believed in myself, and I've always worked very, very hard as an artist, and I am an artist in every sense of the word."

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"I have the ability to sing with emotion and feeling, but if you say I sound like Billie Holiday, that's cool. Let's look at who Billie was: she was this person, this singer, this beautiful diva who could move the audience with the slightest gesture of her hand."
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