Take 6: Beautiful World
Mark Anthony Neal, PopMatters, 19 June 2002
WHEN TAKE 6 dropped their self-titled debut in 1988, contemporary R&B and gospel were both at crossroads and the idea of an a cappella gospel group didn't promise to find the group any kind of footing among genres clearly in flux.
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