India Arie was nominated for the 2002 Grammy Award for Best New Artist. ACOUSTIC SOUL was nominated for the 2002 Grammy Awards for Album Of The Year and for Best R&B Album. “Video” was nominated for the 2002 Grammy Awards for Record Of The Year, … Full Descriptionfor Song Of The Year, for Best Female R&B Vocal Performance and for Best R&B Song.

Cut from the same rootsy R&B cloth as Erykah Badhu, Atlanta-born India Arie’s full-length debut after her first public emergence on Spike Lee’s BAMBOOZLED soundtrack is a down-home affair, where acoustic guitars, live drums, and stand-up bass share space with more contemporary production devices. Arie’s voice has an insinuating, seductive undertone that works its way into the listener’s subconscious.

Songs such as “Video” are both catchy and centered on a subtly feminist theme, proving that Arie is up to having her cake and eating it, too, while the unimpeachably sexy “Brown Skin” is quintessential bedroom mood music. Arie’s debut promises much, and delivers even more.