By Chuck Arnold ·Updated February 11, 2022
Whipping the bewitching voodoo that was Baduizm on the world 25 years ago — when her debut album became an instant neo-soul classic on Feb. 11, 1997 — Erykah Badu never imagined that its spell would go “on and on,” like the title of her debut single. Or that she would forever change music and lives.
“I didn’t know I was representing anything just being
