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India.Arie

India.Arie's 2001 double-platinum debut, Acoustic Soul, set a new tone for millennial R&B music. Her hit "Video" championed her right to be a free spirit and ignored the industry's status quo of sound-alike and look-alike artists.

Her on-time message--also conveyed on singles "Brown Skin" and "Strength, Wisdom, And Courage"--earned her a whopping seven Grammy award nominations, a duet on "Peaceful World" with John Mellencamp, and a tour run with Sade. Her work also impacted her peers: Justin Timberlake, Destiny's Child, Chaka Khan, Nelly Furtado, Britney Spears, and Dido have all sung India's praises.

The Motown Records artist--who was raised in Denver and Atlanta on Stevie Wonder, Donny Hathaway, Bonnie Raitt, and James Taylor--says it was always...
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