Profile
Babyface
Singer + Songwriter + Guitarist
Male
Born
Apr 10, 1959
Age
54
Genres
Soul + New jack s...
Instruments
Mandolin + Guitar...
Performed With
Whitney Elizabeth...
Record Label
Arista
Kenneth Brian "Babyface" Edmonds is an American R&B singer-songwriter, guitarist, keyboardist, record producer, film producer, and entrepreneur.
Romance
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Nicole PantenburgDated 2007
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Lynelle EdmondsMarried
Family
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Babyface
Age 54
parents
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Marvin EdmondsFather
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Barbara EdmondsMother
siblings
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Melvin EdmondsBrother
children
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Peyton Nicole EdmondsSon, Age 4
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Dylan Michael EdmondsSon
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Brandon EdmondsSon
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Timeline
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CHILDHOOD
1959
Birth
Kenneth Edmonds was born on April 10, 1959, in Indianapolis, Indiana, to Marvin and Barbara Edmonds.
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TWENTIES
1983
24 Years Old
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.
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1988
29 Years Old
Babyface remained in The Deele until 1988, when both he and Reid left the group.
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THIRTIES
1989
30 Years Old
In 1989, Edmonds co-founded LaFace Records with Reid. Three of the label's early artists TLC, Usher, and Toni Braxton were successful, the former becoming one of the best selling female groups in music history. Braxton's eponymous 1993 debut album went on to sell over eight million copies, and earned her the 1994 Grammy Award Best New Artist. TLC's first two albums on LaFace—1992's Ooooooohhh... On the TLC Tip and 1994's CrazySexyCool—combined to sell more than 15 million copies in the U.S. CrazySexyCool won the 1996 Grammy Award for Best R&B album.
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1994
35 Years Old
He co-wrote, co-produced, and provided backing vocals on Madonna's 1994 Bedtime Stories, which featured the 7-week #1 hit "Take a Bow," and shared billing with Eric Clapton on the chart-topping Grammy winner "Change the World" from the Phenomenon soundtrack.
He also wrote and produced the #1 hit "Exhale (Shoop Shoop)" for Whitney Houston as well as the rest of the critically acclaimed 10 million selling Waiting to Exhale soundtrack in 1995, which spawned additional hits for Houston, Brandy and Mary J. Blige.
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1996
37 Years Old
Edmonds also worked with David Foster to compose "The Power of the Dream," the official song of the 1996 Summer Olympics, performed by superstar Céline Dion.
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FORTIES
2005
46 Years Old
In October 2005, Edmonds and his wife, Tracey Edmonds, announced that they were ending their marriage of thirteen years.
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2007
48 Years Old
Edmonds then began dating his backup dancer Nicole "Nikki" Pantenburg (former dancer and personal friend of Janet Jackson's) in 2007.
2008
49 Years Old
In September 2008, Edmonds and Nicole welcomed a daughter, Peyton Nicole Edmonds.
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