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Erykah Badu: queen of the nu-soul
Rarely seen in France, this lady is the untouchable queen of a genre that drives purists wild: nu-soul. But in its early days, nu-soul was the subject of much debate.
By Alexis Thibault.
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Rarely seen in France, this lady is the untouchable queen of a genre that drives purists wild: nu-soul. But in its early days, nu-soul was the subject of much debate.
By Alexis Thibault.