Babyface and Toni Braxton
"It's not necessarily a completely slow album. It's got a groove to it," the R&B legend tells Billboard.
Hot off his successful collaboration with Toni Braxton on "Love,Marriage & Divorce," Kenneth "Babyface" Edmonds is readying his
first solo album in seven years -- and first of original material since
2005's "Grown & Sexy."
Babyface tells us the new project is in motion, with hopes for "a
single in September and an album next year, around Valentine's Day." He
adds that working with Braxton as well as on upcoming albums by Barbra
Streisand and Aretha Franklin "inspired me. Just doing work here
recently with a number of 6peole has just got me back into the mode of
writing and wanting to record. So I've been putting things together off
to the side, as I always do, and I'm getting ready to beam in on it this
summer and have it done by this fall."
Toni Braxton Q&A: On Working with 'Musical Husband' Babyface
Babyface adds the set is shaping up to be "a feel-good record. It's
musical. It's not necessarily a completely slow album. It's got a groove
to it -- not dance music, just a groove to it. I've been out on tour
not just with Toni but with Frankie Beverly and Charlie Wilson and Kem
and those guys, who [release] not just commercial records but things
that just feel good. And that's inspired me to do a very musical record,
which I've always tried to do, anyway."
In addition to working on the album, Babyface has also been enjoying the
dates with Braxton and the success of "Love, Marriage & Divorce,"
which debuted at No. 4 on the Billboard 200 and No. 1 on the Top R&B
Albums chart in February. He's particularly happy that Braxton, who
hadn't released anything in four years, has "found her voice again" as
well as her passion for making music.
"The main reason I wanted to do the album was to get Toni back into
wanting to record again, and wanting to be an artist and be in music,"
explains Babyface, who launched Braxton's career with his LaFace Records
in 1993. "She was really done with it and frustrated with it all, so I
just wanted to give her a reason to want to sing again. And from the
first moment I heard her singing in the studio when we started I said,
'Oh my God, there she is, and I miss that.' It was nice to hear. So to
me the next stepping stone is another great Toni Braxton album. She's
ready to fly again."
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