The album was released to positive reception, but was her lowest-charting album yet, peaking at on the Billboard Artist descriptions on Last. Feel free to contribute! All user-contributed text on this page is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License ; additional terms may apply.
Don't want to see ads? Upgrade Now. View all similar artists. She decided on a back-up career as a music teacher, but had also formed a singing group with her sisters by the late s. Whetstone, the sales were so abysmal that she was certain no one outside the Braxton family had bought it. Braxton's voice lured them in particular, but they were wary of bringing another all-female group into the LaFace Records family since they had just signed TLC.
The Braxton sisters would later record their own album and serve as Braxton's back-up singers on the road. The latter--a heartfelt admonishment to a straying man--had originally been offered to Anita Baker, who passed on it. Each song enjoyed success on the charts while Braxton was at work co-writing and recording several new songs with Edmonds and Reid for a full-length debut album of her own. The namesake album, Toni Braxton, appeared in , became an immediate hit, and would eventually sell over nine million copies.
Success was indeed the best revenge, and it was sweet. Discussing her music, which seemed atypical of the offerings from other young, attractive African-American female recording artists--with their thumpy beats and lyrics that often celebrate sex--Braxton told Linden in Essence, "My voice is a lot older than I am. So, even though I might have enjoyed doing one of those hip-hop songs, I don't know if I could have, because of my mature sound.
Such smart-girl vibes in Braxton's music earned her legions of fans and made her a major star. With Secrets, released in the spring of , Braxton took her time recording--"I can't record in the morning because I sound like Barry White," Braxton told Essence 's Cain--and she and the LaFace team came up with a decidedly new, more upbeat sound.
Farley found the transition a successful one. Amid all the success and recognition Braxton received in the first five years of her musical career, it came as a surprise that Braxton filed for bankruptcy. In December of , citing Section of the California Labor Code, a statute that limits the length of personal service contracts to seven years, Braxton sued her record label, LaFace Records.
Braxton claimed her agreement with them had been invalid as of August of Some people blamed Braxton's expensive taste and spendthrift ways. Braxton's manager Barry Hankerson claimed much of her personal money was consumed by expenses that her record company should have underwritten as marketing costs. Retrieved September 12, Retrieved June 29, Archived from the original on December 31, November 20, January 29, Archived from the original on January 8, January 21, Has No Heart".
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Archived from the original on July 27, CBS News. February 10, Hollywood Reporter. February 3, January 9, Toni Braxton began her professional career singing alongside her sisters, until emerging as a solo artist with a song on the soundtrack for Boomerang The following year, she released her debut self-titled album, garnering wide acclaim for singles like "You Mean the World to Me" and "Breathe Again.
Braxton made history in when she became the first Black actress to play Belle in the Broadway production of Beauty and the Beast, and she later starred alongside her sisters on the reality show Braxton Family Values.
Despite announcing her retirement in , the singer resumed recording shortly afterward and announced a new solo album in Brought up in a strict, religious household that prohibited any sort of engagement with popular culture, Braxton and her four younger sisters — Traci, Towanda, Trina and Tamar — began singing at an early age at their father's church. Over time, Michael and Evelyn eased their household rules, allowing their daughters to gain more exposure to soul and rock singers like Stevie Wonder and Chaka Khan.
For Braxton especially, music became a central component in her life. She entered a number of local talent shows and also collaborated considerably with her sisters.
Following her graduation from high school, Braxton planned on becoming a music teacher but was easily swayed to leave college when songwriter Bill Pettaway overheard Braxton singing to herself at a gas station. With his help, Braxton landed a record contract with Arista Records for both her and her sisters. The Braxtons, as the sisters called themselves, released the single "The Good Life" in While not a huge hit, it did manage to catch the ear of producers Antonio "L. In , Braxton caught her first big break when she was asked to fill in for Anita Baker and sing for the soundtrack to the Eddie Murphy movie Boomerang.
A year after the Boomerang soundtrack, Braxton released her eponymous debut album.
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