Foster Kid Hall of Famer Open Their Hearts Anita Baker, Singer/Songwriter to Children in Need
FCN Foster PareNt Newsletter 1-877-297-3303 • www.FosterAdoptOrangeNY.org DeCember 2014/JaNuary 2015 Help us find more This month’s caring families to Foster Kid Hall of Famer open their hearts Anita Baker, Singer/Songwriter to children in need. As a foster parent, you are making a difference. Now we need your help finding others who can provide the loving home environment that a growing number of children so desperately need. So many of the kids in our community do not get a fair chance. Their lives and futures are in our hands. More foster parents are the answer. Do you know someone who you think would Anita Baker was born on January 26, 1958 in Toledo, Ohio. When she was two, her mother be a great foster parent? If you refer them and abandoned her and Baker was raised by a foster family in Detroit, Michigan. When Baker they become a foster parent, you will get a $250 was thirteen, her foster mother passed away, leaving her foster sister, Lois Landry, to raise her. Lois and her husband, Walter, provided Baker with a stable environment that emphasized referral fee as a thank you. Have them call the hard work and religion. Foster Care Network’s Hotline: By the time Baker was sixteen, she began singing at Detroit nightclubs. After one performance, 1-877-297-3303. she was discovered by bandleader, David Washington, who gave her a card to audition for the funk band, Chapter 8, in the late 1970’s. Baker eventually released her first solo album, The Songstress, in 1983.
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