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Track: Every Time I Close My Eyes (with Kenny G)
Artist: Babyface
Album: The Day

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Name: Babyface
Spotify Genres: quiet storm, new jack swing, r&b, contemporary r&b
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R'n'B singer, songwriter, producer, label executive. [b]Note: when appearing with L.A. Reid, please use [a154765][/b] Born 10th April 1959 in Indianapolis, Indiana, USA. Brother of [a=Kevon Edmonds] and [a=Melvin Edmonds], ex-husband to [a=Tracey E. Edmonds] (1992 - 2005). He has written and/or produced over 26 No.1 R&B hits and won 11 Grammy Awards. [a=Bootsy Collins] tagged him ''Babyface'' because of his cute face while he was still a teen. He was a guitarist with [a=Manchild (9)] in the late 1970s and a keyboardist with [a=Deele] till the late 1980s, a group that included his later partner [a=L.A. Reid] with whom he would build one of the most successful writing and producing duos of r'n'b, [a=L.A. & Babyface]. In 1986 he started his solo career and up to 2014 he had released 10 albums. He was one of the basic figures that created the new jack swing sound, producing [a=Bobby Brown], [a=Karyn White], [a=Pebbles], [a=Paula Abdul] and [a=Sheena Easton] co-founding [l=LaFace Records] in 1989, with the label's early artists [a=TLC], [a=Usher], [a=Toni Braxton] becoming huge stars. He helped forming [a=Az Yet] and in the 1990s he produced [a=Madonna], [a=Whitney Houston], [a=Boyz II Men], [a=Michael Jackson], [a=Eric Clapton] and a long series of others and in the next decades he produced [a=Lil Wayne], [a=Ariana Grande], even [a=Barbra Streisand].

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Release: Babyface - The Day
Year: 1997
Genres: Funk / Soul
Styles: RnB/Swing

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