Her now famous Richard Tyler white satin gown has gone down in history as one of the most revealing and sexiest dresses. Throughout Braxton's career she made several impacts on fashion mostly for her legendary high splits in her dresses. Braxton is a recipient of seven Grammy Awards, seven American Music Awards, and nine Billboard Music Awards. He further commented, 'damn, this song is so sad it can make people cry for hours at a time.' It's Braxton's ability to capture her audience that plays a factor in her continuous success. Bob McCann, author of Encyclopedia of African American Actresses in Film and Television (2010), considered it 'simply one of the most haunting R&B records ever made.' Reviewer Mark Edward Nero named it one of the best R&B break-up songs and considered it Braxton's 'finest moment'. Her greatest is 'Un-Break My Heart', the Diane Warren-penned ballad that spent 11-weeks at number 1. Braxton's musical catalog contains many classics that have won her many accolades. Over the span of her career Braxton has sold over 66 million records, including 40 million albums, worldwide. Clive had Whitney, Tommy had Mariah and we had Toni.' BBC called the album 'spiritedly, mature soul at its best â and just urban enough to make it the bedroom album for the hip hop generation.' Braxton had the sound of R&B greats like Anita Baker and the sex appeal to compete with fellow superstars Mariah Carey and Whitney Houston. LA Reid stated during an interview with VH1: 'We called her the first lady of LaFace. Toni Braxton became an immediate R&B superstar after the release of her first album. #Toni and babyface songs movie#Twist of Faith premiered on the Lifetime Movie Network February 9, 2013.Ģ013â∲014: Love, Marriage and Divorce, Broadway return, and memoir I've been trying to listen to songs, record companies have been calling me, so it's a good situation to be in, but I'm not really interested at all'. I don't know what to say when I hear songs. Braxton appeared on Good Morning America to promote her new movie when she also confirmed the rumors of her retirement revealing that she is retiring from music and stated that she would like to focus on acting: 'I have to do shows here and there, but I'm not gonna do any albums, I'm falling out of love with it, it's weird. Braxton flew to Canada to begin shooting for her lead role in Twist of Faith later that year. These rumors would later be confirmed by Braxton herself on February 7, 2013. Shortly after the release of I Heart You rumors began circulating that Braxton would soon retire. The music video for 'I Heart You' was directed by Bille Woodruff. The song has peaked at number 1 on the Billboard Dance/Club play chart. The same year, Braxton was further annoyed, when Jay-Z used the same sample of 2Pac's 'Me and My Girlfriend', that she had already used on her track 'Me & My Boyfriend' for his and Beyoncé's '03 Bonnie & Clyde'. Disapproving of Gotti broadcasting the unfinished track, Braxton withheld it from being released. Prior to the release of the album, a dispute erupted between Braxton and Irv Gotti, when he played a rough cut of 'No More Love', a song that he produced for the album, that was to be the first single. More Than a Woman was certified gold by RIAA and sold more than 800,000 copies worldwide. The two singles, that followed ('A Better Man', 'Lies, Lies, Lies') were scrapped, failed to make a dent and missed the Hot 100 completely. The first single, The Neptunes -produced 'Hit the Freeway', failed at radio and peaked at number 86 on the Hot 100. Opening to an instant commercial disappointment, the album peaked at number 13. In November 2002, Braxton's fourth studio album More Than a Woman was released. She won two Grammy Awards one for Best Female Pop Vocal Performance for 'Un-Break My Heart' and Best Female R&B Vocal Performance for 'You're Makin' Me High' as well as two American Music Awards for Favorite Female Soul/R&B Artist and Favorite Soul/R&B Album. Braxton topped the Billboard Year-End Charts as the Top Hot 100 Singles Artist â Female, Top R&B Artist â Female (singles and albums), Top Hot R&B Singles Artist â Female, Top Hot Dance Club Play Artist, and Top Hot Adult Contemporary Artist, while 'Un-Break My Heart' became the Top Hot Dance Club Play Single and the Top Hot Adult Contemporary Track of the year. Internationally, Secrets sold more than 15 million copies, thus cementing Braxton's superstar status. After 92 weeks in the charts, Secrets was certified 8x platinum, becoming Braxton's second straight 8 million seller. Other singles from the album included the double A-side 'I Don't Want To'/'I Love Me Some Him' (which peaked at number one on the Hot Dance Music/Club Play chart) and 'How Could an Angel Break My Heart ' this last featured Kenny G, with whom Braxton later toured.
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