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Celebrates 25 Years In Music<\/strong><\/p>\n

By Martha Tang<\/p>\n

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Multi-platinum, seven-time Grammy Award\u00ae-winning superstar and icon Toni Braxton released SEX & CIGARETTES last month via Def Jam Recordings. SEX & CIGARETTES – the ninth album in Toni\u2019s legendary career – is her first studio album since 2014\u2019s Grammy-winning collaboration with Babyface, Love, Marriage & Divorce and her first solo album in almost a decade. The album was co-produced by Toni herself and includes the single \u201cDeadwood,\u201d (released September 2017), which recently topped the charts at Urban AC radio. Her brand new single \u201cLong As I Live\u201d is out now, and is one of several tracks Toni co-wrote and produced for the album. The album also includes a duet with Colbie Caillat (on \u201cMy Heart\u201d).<\/p>\n

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This year commemorates 25 years in the music business for Toni Braxton, since the release of her eponymously titled 8x-platinum debut album in 1993, on Arista Records. The album included her career-defining worldwide hits \u201cAnother Sad Love Song\u201d and \u201cBreathe Again,\u201d which made Grammy\u00ae history by winning consecutive awards in 1994 and 1995 respectively, for Best Female R&B Performance. The album also generated Toni\u2019s 1994 Grammy\u00ae as Best New Artist.<\/p>\n

SEX & CIGARETTES marks Toni\u2019s first major release since Love, Marriage & Divorce, her Grammy\u00ae-winning Best R&B Album collaboration with Kenny \u2018Babyface\u2019 Edmonds, released February 2014. A critically acclaimed landmark project for both artists, Love, the New York Times hailed Marriage & Divorce as a \u201cquiet-storm oasis\u201d in People magazine\u2019s 3-star review, and \u201ca re-animator\u201d. SEX & CIGARETTES is available now https:\/\/ToniBraxton.lnk.to\/SexandCigarettes<\/a><\/p>\n

In March 2014, Toni Braxton became the latest Grammy Award\u00ae-winning artist to join the cast of the Broadway musical After Midnight as \u201cSpecial Guest Star\u201d vocalist (with Babyface), for a limited engagement run at the Brooks Atkinson Theatre. After Midnight reintroduced the Cotton Club\u2019s exciting tradition of welcoming contemporary artists in limited engagements throughout the musical’s 272-performance run.<\/p>\n

About Toni Braxton:<\/p>\n

The distinctive, sultry vocals of seven-time Grammy Award\u00ae-winning recording artist Toni Braxton, singer, songwriter, record producer, and philanthropist, have been celebrated internationally ever since she was first introduced to the world by Babyface and L.A. Reid in 1992. Her self-titled debut album released the next year was a 10 million-selling phenomenon that generated Toni\u2019s first Grammys\u00ae in 1994, for Best New Artist and Best Female R&B Vocal (\u201cAnother Sad Love Song\u201d). The album\u2019s longevity led Toni to win her second Best Female R&B Vocal Grammy\u00ae the following year (for \u201cBreathe Again\u201d). Her second album, Secrets arrived in \u201996, and history repeated itself with 15 million worldwide sales. At the Grammy Awards\u00ae in 1997, Toni became only the second woman in history (beside Dionne Warwick) to win Best Female Pop Vocal (\u201cUn-break My Heart\u201d) and Best Female R&B Vocal (\u201cYou\u2019re Makin\u2019 Me High\u201d) in the same year. She returned to the Grammy\u00ae podium in 2001, to claim another Best Female R&B Vocal award (\u201cHe Wasn\u2019t Man Enough,\u201d from the double-platinum album The Heat). Toni\u2019s seventh Grammy\u00ae came in 2015, when she and Kenny \u2018Babyface\u2019 Edmonds shared the Best R&B Album award for their collaboration, Love, Marriage & Divorce.<\/p>\n

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Into the millennium, Toni blossomed into an acting career with Broadway musical roles in Beauty and the Beast (the first African American woman to play a leading role in a Disney Broadway production) and Aida, and a dramatic turn in the Lifetime movie Twist of Faith. Her heartfelt memoir Unbreak My Heart was published in May 2014 by HarperCollins.<\/p>\n

Raising her two sons Denim and Diezel, Toni balances her career demands with the high priorities of family, heath, public service, and charity work, particularly on behalf of the two diseases that have impacted her family directly: She is living with Lupus and her youngest child is living with Autism. Early detection and intervention has helped both Braxtons to be role models on how to live normal lives with these conditions. Toni is also a proud spokesperson for Autism Speaks and Lupus L.A.<\/p>\n

Connect with Toni Braxton on Facebook, Instagram, Twittter or her website www.tonibraxton.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Celebrates 25 Years In Music By Martha Tang   Multi-platinum, seven-time Grammy Award\u00ae-winning superstar and icon Toni Braxton released SEX & CIGARETTES last month via Def Jam Recordings. SEX & CIGARETTES – the ninth album in Toni\u2019s legendary career – is her first studio album since 2014\u2019s Grammy-winning collaboration with Babyface, Love, Marriage & Divorce and her first solo album in almost a decade. The album was co-produced by Toni herself and includes the single \u201cDeadwood,\u201d (released September 2017), which recently topped the charts at Urban AC radio. Her brand new single \u201cLong As I Live\u201d is out now, and is one of several tracks Toni co-wrote and produced for the album. The album also includes a duet with Colbie Caillat (on \u201cMy Heart\u201d).   This year commemorates 25 years in the music business for Toni Braxton, since the release of her eponymously titled 8x-platinum debut album in 1993, on Arista Records. The album included her career-defining worldwide hits \u201cAnother Sad Love Song\u201d and \u201cBreathe Again,\u201d which made Grammy\u00ae history by winning consecutive awards in 1994 and 1995 respectively, for Best Female R&B Performance. The album also generated Toni\u2019s 1994 Grammy\u00ae as Best New Artist. SEX & CIGARETTES marks Toni\u2019s […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1314,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[604],"tags":[1766,1768,1759,1761,1760,1758,1762,1765,1767,1769,1763,1756,1757,1764],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thestandardps.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1313"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thestandardps.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thestandardps.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thestandardps.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thestandardps.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1313"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.thestandardps.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1313\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1315,"href":"https:\/\/www.thestandardps.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1313\/revisions\/1315"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thestandardps.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1314"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thestandardps.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1313"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thestandardps.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1313"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thestandardps.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1313"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}