3/17/2024 0 Comments Babyface songs another group![]() … If I hadn’t become a producer, I don’t know that I would still be relevant.” ![]() It was me producing people that had the biggest impact, and being a writer and producer is just as important to my artistry as being Babyface the solo artist. I had records and I did well, but I was never that big. I was never the Bobby Brown or the Johnny Gill, the Boyz II Men. “I’ve always been mostly behind the scenes,” Edmonds says, reflecting on his varied career trajectory. And unlike so many music industry titans of his level, who cast the ups and downs of their careers as a sort of grand hero’s journey, Edmonds is just about the least likely person on earth to take stock of his personal narrative through a “Behind the Music”-style lens. Yet Edmonds was never expelled from the ranks of superstar hitmakers so much as he decided to opt out for a while. And his producer dance card is filled up with projects for Keri Hilson, Ledisi and Barbra Streisand in the months to come. He’s knee-deep readying a duets record with longtime muse Toni Braxton, titled “Love, Marriage, Divorce,” for a December release on Motown. His production and songwriting work for Nickelodeon star Ariana Grande saw the 20-year-old notch her first No. It may be true that Kenneth “ Babyface” Edmonds has experienced a dramatic upswing in productivity over the past year or so, after nearly a decade of relative, atypical quiet.
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