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Babyface Biography
As a singer, producer, and songwriter, Babyface was an
inescapable presence in virtually every major facet of pop music during
the '90s. His own recordings helped rejuvenate the R&B tradition of
the smooth, sensitive, urban crooner and made him a staple of urban
contemporary radio. Yet their considerable success was eclipsed by his
songwriting and production work for other artists, which linked him
with some of the biggest stars and hit singles of the decade (and not
just in the realm of R&B). You'd be hard pressed to name a '90s
hitmaker with a track record more consistently successful and versatile
than Kenny Babyface Edmonds.
Kenneth Edmonds was born April 10, 1959, in Indianapolis and began
playing in local R&B bands as a teenager. He served a stint in
Bootsy Collins' backing unit (where he earned his nickname) and
subsequently joined the funk outfit Manchild, which signed a record
deal in 1977 and released three albums. After their breakup, Babyface
and partner Antonio L.A. Reid formed an urban funk group called the
Deele in the early '80s, which scored a few sizable hits on the R&B
charts. Babyface and Reid began producing and writing for other artists
on the side, landing hits in Pebbles' Girlfriend and the Whispers'
Rock Steady ; following the Deele's third album in 1988, the duo left
to continue their outside activities full-time, co-founding the LaFace
label in 1989. Further hits followed in Bobby Brown's Every Little
Step, Sheena Easton's The Lover in Me, and Karyn White's The Way
You Love Me and Superwoman, all of which performed well on both the
pop and R&B charts.
Babyface had actually recorded a little-noticed solo album in 1986,
titled Lovers, but with his newfound success having marked him as one
to watch, his solo career now began in earnest. Released in 1989,
Tender Lover caught fire, spinning off four singles over the next year,
including the R&B chart smashes It's No Crime (number one) and
Whip Appeal (number two; both also reached the pop Top Ten); the
album also went double platinum. Now firmly established as a
powerhouse, Babyface went on to co-write hits for Johnny Gill ( My, My,
My, nominated for the Best R&B Song Grammy), Whitney Houston ( I'm
Your Baby Tonight ), and Madonna ( Take a Bow ); his biggest success,
however, came with Boyz II Men, whose recording of End of the Road
became one of the longest-running number ones in pop history (the
Babyface-penned follow-up I'll Make Love to You was also pretty
successful in its own right). He was co-nominated for an Album of the
Year Grammy for his production on The Bodyguard soundtrack and went on
to work with artists like Celine Dion, Mariah Carey, Gladys Knight,
Aretha Franklin, En Vogue, and Mary J. Blige. As if that weren't
enough, LaFace had become a highly successful and lucrative imprint,
breaking artists like Toni Braxton, TLC, OutKast, and Usher (often with
input from Reid and Babyface).
It's no wonder Babyface wound up taking a break from his own career as
a singer during the early '90s, releasing only a remix album, A Closer
Look, in 1991. The proper follow-up to Tender Lover didn't appear until
1993; even so, For the Cool in You was an even bigger hit than its
predecessor, going triple platinum and producing Babyface's first Top
Five pop hit, the change-of-pace acoustic guitar ballad When Can I See
You Again (which won him his first Grammy as a performer for Best Male
R&B Vocal). In 1995, he scored another major success with the
Waiting to Exhale soundtrack, not only producing it but scoring the
film itself and writing nearly all of its songs, including the Whitney
Houston smash Exhale (Shoop, Shoop). The same year, he won the first
of three consecutive Grammys as Producer of the Year. Successes just
kept coming in 1996; the guest-laden album The Day spawned another Top
Ten pop/R&B hit in Every Time I Close My Eyes, and he solidified
his crossover credentials once and for all by winning a Grammy for
Record of the Year as producer of Eric Clapton's Change the World.
Encouraged by the success of Waiting to Exhale, Babyface and his wife,
Tracey Edmonds, formed their own film production company, which debuted
in 1997 with the acclaimed urban family comedy/drama Soul Food
(Babyface, naturally, masterminded the soundtrack). The next year, he
contributed lyrics to the animated musical The Prince of Egypt, which
went uncredited on the soundtrack album. With the movies taking up more
of his time, his next musical releases were quick one-offs: an MTV
Unplugged album in 1997 and the seasonal Christmas With Babyface the
next year. His production and songwriting activities continued, though
he remained silent as a performer for a few years. In 2000, Epic
released the best-of compilation A Collection of His Greatest Hits,
marking the end of his tenure with the label; he had elected to move to
Arista, where L.A. Reid was now a high-ranking executive. In 2001,
Babyface released a new album, Face2Face, and also produced the
punk-pop soundtrack for the film Josie & the Pussycats. The
back-to-basics Grown & Sexy came in July 2005. ~ Steve Huey, All
Music Guide
Written by Steve Huey