Neighborhood
Wikipedia ties Erykah Badu to Fort Greene, Brooklyn. A tie, not always an origin
Places
Listen and read
Music spots
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Studio
Electric Lady Studios
1970Commissioned by Jimi Hendrix and opened in 1970. Paul Stanley recorded demos here in 1971 with Wicked Lester and returned with Kiss to make Dressed to Kill (1975); in the Soulquarians era Erykah Badu made Mama’s Gun (2000) here, per Wikipedia.
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Venue
Radio City Music Hall
1984–1998The first MTV Video Music Awards were held here on 14 September 1984. Madonna came out of a 17-foot wedding cake to sing “Like a Virgin”, and Cyndi Lauper, the night’s most-nominated artist, won Best Female Video for “Girls Just Want to Have Fun”, per Wikipedia. At the 40th Grammy Awards here on 25 February 1998, Erykah Badu and Fiona Apple both performed and won, per Wikipedia and the Recording Academy, and Ol' Dirty Bastard rushed the stage as Shawn Colvin took it to accept Song of the Year, per Wikipedia.
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Venue
Brooklyn Moon Cafe
1995Opened in January 1995; its Friday open-mic poetry night began a few months later. Erykah Badu and Mos Def are among the well-known names who performed and hung out there, per BK Reader.
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