He co-wrote, co-produced, and provided backing vocals on Madonna's 1994 Bedtime Stories, which featured the seven-week No. He also wrote and produced Boyz II Men's 1992 " End of the Road" and 1994 " I'll Make Love to You", both of which established records for the longest stay at No. " I'm Your Baby Tonight" (1990), produced for Whitney Houston, was Houston's introduction to R&B music and Edmonds' first No. Įdmonds has worked with many successful performers in contemporary music. Edmonds also helped to mold and work with some of his then-wife Tracey Edmonds' acts, such as Jon B and producer Jon-John Robinson.
Toni Braxton's first two albums, Toni Braxton (1993) and Secrets (1996), for which he wrote the majority of the songs, went on to sell a combined total of over 10 million copies in America alone.īabyface helped form the popular late-1990s R&B group Az Yet. Under his direction, TLC sold more than 60 million albums worldwide, and a combined total of 75 million records. TLC's second album CrazySex圜ool, for which he wrote and produced some of the hits, became the best-selling album of all time by an American girl group. Three of the label's early artists, TLC, Usher, and Toni Braxton, were very successful. In 1989, Edmonds co-founded LaFace Records with Reid. Other ventures Įdmonds performing in 2009 Writing and producing įrom the late 1980s to the early 90s, he wrote R&B and dance songs, writing and producing music for Bobby Brown (" Roni"), Karyn White (" Love Saw It"), Pebbles (" Girlfriend", " Mercedes Boy"), The Whispers (" Rock Steady", "In the Mood"), The Deele (" Two Occasions"), Johnny Gill (" My My My"), After 7 (" Ready or Not"), The Boys (" Dial My Heart"), Damian Dame ("Right Down to It") and Sheena Easton. On February 4, 2014, he released a Grammy Award-winning duet album with Toni Braxton titled Love, Marriage & Divorce on Motown Records. It was the first album on the newly re-launched Mercury Records label.
His album Playlist consists of eight cover songs and two original works. Babyface remained in the Deele until 1988, when both he and Reid left the group. The tune was on Midnight Star's 1983 double-platinum No Parking on the Dance Floor album. One of his first major credits as a songwriter for outside artists came when he wrote the tune "Slow Jam" for the R&B band Midnight Star in 1983. He played keyboards and guitar in the light-funk and R&B group the Deele (which also included drummer Antonio "L.A." Reid, with whom he would later form a successful writing and producing partnership). He also performed in the group Manchild (which had a 1977 hit "Especially for You" with band member Daryl Simmons) as a guitarist. Music career Įdmonds later met funk performer Bootsy Collins, who tagged him "Babyface" because of his youthful look.
At this stage, Edmonds became determined to have a career in music. When he was in eighth grade, Edmonds' father died of lung cancer, leaving his mother to raise her sons alone. Edmonds, who is the fifth of six brothers (including future After 7 band members Melvin and Kevon Edmonds, the latter of whom went on to have a modestly successful solo career), attended North Central High School in Indianapolis, and as a shy youth, wrote songs to express his emotions. Barbara was a production operator at a pharmaceutical plant. Edmonds was born on April 10, 1959, in Indianapolis, Indiana, to Marvin and Barbara Edmonds.
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