Charting at number sixty on the Hot 100, Caught A Lite Sneeze also helped the album debut at number two in both the US and the UK - her most successful release yet.
But who broke up this "relationship?" Why, none other than Courtney Michelle Love Harrison! Tori came after the erstwhile Mrs. Cobain in the white girl diss record Professional Widow. A dance remix by Armand Van Helden went to NUMBER ONE in the UK.
Why does EVERYONE this side of Boo Boo Kitty want her dead?
Erica Wright, better known as Erykah Badu. Changed her first name at age 14 to shake off the shackles of slavery - the "kah" means inner self. Already freestyling on local Dallas radio by then, Erykah went to Grambling University - a HBU (historically Black university) but left one semester shy of graduation to focus on music. She got a spot opening for a nascent D'Angelo in 1994, and manager Kedar Massenberg was in the audience. They recorded a demo together; that demo eventually became Baduizm.
The CD, released in early 1997, was immediately acclaimed; Erykah's voice drew LOUD comparisons to Billie Holliday. She really did stand out from every other female in R&B music at the time, who were competing to see who could best ride hip-hop beats. Lead single On&On spent two weeks at number one on R&B radio, went to number twelve on the Hot 100, and won her a Grammy for Female R&B Vocal Performance.
Really should have beaten Jewel for Female Video that year, btw. Second single Next Lifetime was another R&B hit.
But Erykah's next iconic release came with her Baduizm Live LP. The single pulled to promote it, Tyrone, was never released commercially - so it did not chart on the Hot 100.