Article: Badu rocks Auditorium Theatre

Badu rocks Auditorium Theatre

Erykah's fierce.

Not every woman can toss off a head wrap and get thunderous applause and standing ovations for a striking bald "do," prowl the stage and stare down the audience with a what-you-gonna-do attitude, then coyly belt "This is what I look like without makeup."

It wouldn't be the only rousing response. Badu riled audiences Friday at the Auditorium Theatre with a three-hour, powerhouse show, letting every lyric and gesture embody heated emotions she'd harbored since her stellar debut.

Badu teased with her homegirl mix of Afrocentric queenlyness and ghetto-fabulous airs and she didn't just sing. Badu mesmerized audiences with her multifaceted talents, ...

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