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GQ: Babyface Is Back Outside
“The prolific R&B legend has been everywhere lately, with credits on SZA’s “Snooze”and Diddy’s Kim Porter tribute, plus a new chart-topper of his own.” -GQ Click here to read more on GQ.com.
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Rated R&B: Babyface’s ‘As a Matter of Fact’ Logs Fifth Week at No. 1 on Billboard
“Babyface remains on a lucky streak. His latest single “As a Matter of Fact” has entered its fifth week atop Billboard’s Adult R&B Airplay chart.” -Rated R&B This is Babyface’s longest run at No. 1 on this chart and his first song on the Adult R&B chart in 26 years. Click here to read more […]
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Billboard: Babyface’s ‘Fact’ Finds No. 1 on Adult R&B Airplay
“For the first time in 26 years, Babyface rules Billboard’s Adult R&B Airplay chart without any other credited artists, with “As a matter of fact” […]” -Billboard Click here to read more on Billboard.com.
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Music
Girls Night Out
Game Over with Queen Naija
Seamless with Kehlani
Keeps On Fallin’ with Ella Mai
Return Of The Tender Lover
Love, Marriage & Divorce
Playlist
Grown & Sexy
Face 2 Face
Christmas With Babyface
Babyface Unplugged NYC 1997
The Day
For The Cool In You
A Closer Look
Tender Lover
Lovers
The Essential Babyface
Love Songs
A Collection Of His Greatest Hits
Videos
Babyface & Ari Lennox – Liquor
Babyface & Coco Jones – Simple
Babyface ft. Baby Tate – Don’t Even Think About It (Live on Fallon Tonight)
Babyface ft. Ella Mai – Keeps On Fallin’ (Official Music Video)
Babyface ft. Ella Mai – Keeps On Fallin’ (Live at BET Awards 2022)
Babyface ft. Queen Naija – Game Over (Visualizer)
Babyface ft. Kehlani – Seamless (Official Audio)
Charlie Wilson – No Stoppin’ Us ft. Babyface, K-Ci Hailey & Johnny Gill (Official Music Video)
Jam & Lewis x Babyface – He Don’t Know Nothin’ Bout It (Official Video)
Ty Dolla $ign – Solid ft. Babyface (Music Video)
Babyface and Lucky Daye Perform Their Hit Song Shoulda – Soul Train Awards
Toni Braxton, Babyface – Hurt You (Official Video)
Babyface – We’ve Got Love (Official Video)
Babyface – Every Time I Close My Eyes
Babyface – Whip Appeal
Babyface – Never Keeping Secrets
Babyface – When Can I See You
Babyface – This Is For The Lover In You
Babyface – How Come, How Long
Babyface – And Our Feelings
Babyface – What If (Official Video)
Babyface ft. Toni Braxton – Give U My Heart (Official Video)
Babyface – For The Cool In You
Babyface – It’s No Crime
Babyface – The Loneliness (Official Video)
Babyface – My Kinda Girl (Official Video)
Babyface – Tender Lover
Babyface – Reason for Breathing (Video)
The Deele – Two Occasions (Official Music Video)
Babyface – Rock Bottom (Official Music Video)
Babyface – You Were There
Babyface – There She Goes (Official Video)
Babyface – I’ll Make Love to You (MTV Unplugged, NYC, 1997)
Kenny “Babyface” Edmonds – Not Going Nowhere
Babyface – End of the Road (MTV Unplugged, NYC, 1997)
Babyface – Whip Appeal (MTV Unplugged, NYC, 1997)
Babyface – The Day (That You Gave Me a Son) (MTV Unplugged, NYC, 1997)
Babyface – Change the World (MTV Unplugged, NYC, 1997)
Bio
At This Point In His Career, Kenny “babyface” Edmonds Has Just One Thing On His Mind: Feeling Good. “THAT’S ULTIMATELY WHAT ANY MUSICIAN OR SONGWRITER DOES,” DECLARES BABYFACE. “WE TRY TO MAKE PEOPLE FEEL GOOD.”
In a relatively short time, he has reached icon status as a poignant tune smith, prolific hit maker/producer, superstar recording artist, and revolutionary label owner. He is a statistical juggernaut, who keeps adding milestone after milestone to a legacy that seems to have no threshold or peak in sight.
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Kenny ‘Babyface’ Edmonds (born April 10, 1958) is one of the most celebrated creative forces in music history. As a recording artist, songwriter, and producer he has won 12 Grammy Awards to date. Babyface is the only producer to have ever won the ‘Producer of the year’ category four times, three times out of which was in consecutive years (namely 95-97). A record he holds to this day. Additionally, he has also co-founded legendary record label LaFace that has launched artists like Usher, Toni Braxton, TLC, Outkast and Pink.
From humble beginnings in Indianapolis, Indiana, Kenny developed his love for music early on, when he began songwriting at the young age of 12. Upon graduating Highschool he went on to join the band Manchild and got signed to his first record deal. But it wasn’t until the 1980s that he joined the band The Deele, met his future LaFace co-founder LA Reid, and broke into the music world as the guitar player and songwriter of said R&B band.
Artistry:
Over the past five decades he released three consecutive multi-platinum albums: Tender Lover (1989), featuring the #1 “Tender Lover”; For the Cool in You (1993), which included “Never Keeping Secrets” and “When Can I See You”; and The Day (1996) featuring “Every Time I Close My Eyes.” In 2014, he released the Grammy winning album Love, Marriage & Divorce with the one and only Toni Braxton.
Babyface has also impacted, written for and/or produced artists like Bobby Brown, Boyz II Men, Eric Clapton, Madonna, Beyonce, Ariana Grande, Mary J Blige, Celine Dion, Aretha Franklin, George Michael, Michael Jackson, Justin Bieber, Phil Collins, Janet Jackson, Chaka Khan, Anita Baker, Faith Evans, Jay Z, Stevie Wonder, Chris Brown, John Mayer, Lionel Richie, Michael Bolton, Kenny G, Lil Wayne, Luther Vandross, Barbara Streisand, Puff Daddy, Bruno Mars and countless other.
Currently Babyface is working on his 11th studio album which has led him to work with a whole new generation of artists that include SZA, Kehlani, Ari Lennox, Ella Mai and others. He has also helped to reimagine Earth Wind and Fire’s song ‘Cant hide love’ with Lucky Daye.
Awards:
Babyface has contributed to over 800 million records sold and over a billion records streamed. He produced and wrote 125 Top 10 Hits, 42 number 1 R&B hits and 16 number 1 pop hits. He won a total of 12 Grammys, being nominated 79 times. Throughout his career, Babyface has won the BMI Pop Songwriter of the Year trophy seven times, received a total of 51 BMI Awards as well as 4 American music awards, 5 soul train awards, 5 NAACP Image awards and many more. He also produced and co-wrote the Oscar winning song When you Believe, sung by Whitney Houston and Mariah Carey.
Achievements:
In 1999, Kenny’s home state Indiana named a highway after him followed by him receiving a star on the walk of fame in Hollywood in 2013. In 2017 he was inducted into the Songwriter’s Hall of Fame.
Charity:
Babyface is a passionate philanthropist, actively supporting the Carousel of Hope which benefits the Children’s Diabetes Foundation, the Barbara Davis Center for Childhood Diabetes, Larry Ruvo’s “Keep Memory Alive, ” and Stand Up for Cancer. In the past he has also lent his support to FasterCures, VH-1 Save the Music, United Negro College Fund, the David Foster Foundation, and the Mike Milken Prostate Cancer Foundation.
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