Erykah Badu: Baduizm

Erykah Badu's debut, released by Kedar and Universal in February 1997. She recorded it through most of 1996 at Battery Studios in New York, Sigma Sound and Ivory in Philadelphia, and Dallas Sound Lab. Shortly before release she went back to Philadelphia to work with the Roots, and two songs from those sessions, "Otherside of the Game" and "Sometimes", made the album. It won the Grammy for Best R&B Album.