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Anita Baker: Rhythm Of Love, Roberta Flack: Roberta

Carol Cooper, Newsday, September 1994

In a long list of thank you’s on her first new album in four years, Anita Baker cites Roberta Flack "for loving me anyway." Now what could that possibly mean? Did somebody steal somebody’s man? Or is it a byproduct of the invariable comparisons made between these two successful pop-lounge singers a generation apart in age?

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