In honor of her gloriously sunlit March Vogue cover, we’re breaking down five things you might not know about the soul icon.
Her stage name has ancient origins
A Dallas native, Erykah Badu was born Erica Abi Wright on February 26, 1971. The “kah” in her stage name refers to an ancient Egyptian term for one’s soul or “inner self,” while “ba-du” is her favorite jazz-scat sound.Before it became an actual song, “Tyrone,” Badu’s infectious 1997 break-up anthem, was a riff that Badu’s band just played for fun.
Badu herself has had three children: son Seven Sirius Benjamin, with André 3000 of OutKast ; daughter Puma Sabti Curry, with rapper the D.O.C.; and Mars Merkaba Thedford, with rapper Jay Electronica. Although she has never married, she remains close with all three men. “I’m nowhere near a single mom,” she toldShe’s breaking into the cannabis gamea special collaboration with rapper Berner: a new weed strain and a psilocybin mushroom tea set.
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