Babywoman

Babywoman is the only studio album by English fashion model Naomi Campbell, released on 3 October 1994 by Epic Records. Campbell collaborated with a number of producers and songwriters, including Gavin Friday, Tim Simenon, Youth, Justin Strauss, Bruce Roberts and P.M. Dawn. Musically, Babywoman is an R&B album that additionally fuses different genres, such as house, trip hop and country. The album cover was photographed by Ellen von Unwerth.
Upon its release, the album received generally mixed reviews from music critics and was a commercial failure in the United Kingdom, where it did not chart. However, the album was a success in Japan and sold over one million copies worldwide. Two singles were released from the album: "Love & Tears", which reached number 40 on the UK Singles Chart, and "I Want to Live".

Critical reception

Alan Jones from Music Week wrote, "A more accomplished singer than anyone dared anticipate, Campbell has produced a bit of a curate's egg of a debut album, making an ill-advised stab at updating T Rex's 'Ride a White Swan', a too similar cover of Zoe's 'Sunshine on a Rainy Day' and an inspired rescue of an obscure Donna Summer ballad alongside some pleasing, if vocally slight, pop/dance fare." Emma Forrest from NME said, "Naomi Campbell's debut singing effort is stubbornly not as bad as it should be. Her voice is an inoffensive, ineffectual whining alto, but that's not a problem."

Singles

"Love and Tears" is the only song from the album to have a video. The video was directed by Anton Corbijn. The single reached number 40 in the UK and the top 10 in Italy.