Legendary R&B superstars Toni Braxton and Kenny
“Babyface” Edmonds will be performing in South Africa and Zimbabwe between 28 August
and 3 September 2015.
Known and loved around the world for their chart-topping
radio classics, both iconic singer/songwriters shaped the sound of R&B
throughout the 90s both as individual superstars and collaborators.
A hit making machine with enviable longevity, 11-time Grammy
award winning Kenny “Babyface” Edmonds has to his name no less than 130 Top 10
R&B and Pop hits, 43 number 1 R&B hits and 55 Top 10 Pop hits. Edmonds is the recipient of numerous awards,
including Soul Train Music Awards, BMI Awards, NAACP Image Awards and American
Music Awards. He was also the recipient of the third BET Walk of Fame Award,
and was named BET’s “Entertainer of the Year” at the First Annual BET Awards
Ceremony. Just a few of the vocalists from which his music can be heard:
Whitney Houston, Boyz II Men, Beyonce, Mariah Carey, Madonna, Eric Clapton,
Mary J. Blige, Michael Jackson, TLC, Toni Braxton, Celine Dion, John
Mellencamp, Anthony Hamilton, Brandy, Aretha Franklin, Fall Out Boy, Pink,
Charlie Wilson, Chrisette Michele, Barbra Streisand, Ariana Grande, and Colbie
Caillait
Over the course of her storied career, Toni Braxton has
earned a total of seven Grammy Awards and sold over 66 million records
worldwide. Among other achievements, she’s received nine Billboard Music Awards
and seven American Music Awards and been inducted into the Georgia Music Hall
of Fame. She appeared on the seventh season of Dancing with the Stars and
helped bring the hit reality show WE tv’sBraxton Family Values to life as both
an executive producer and star. Expanding her pop culture imprint, she serves
as an executive producer on Tamar & Vince. Transferring her dynamic
presence to the stage, she has starred in Broadway productions of Beauty and
the Beast, Aida, and After Midnight. Most
recently, her 2014 collaboration with Babyface, Love, Marriage & Divorce,
debuted at #4 on Billboard’s Top 200 (her sixth Top Ten entry on the chart) and
#1 on the R&B/Hip-Hop Albums chart. It went on to win a Grammy Award for
Best R&B Album. Braxton continues to engage, endear, and enchant audiences
worldwide with everything she does.
Decades after ‘Give You My Heart’, the 1992 hit single on
which they first sang together, the two paired up to share their experiences of
love on the 2014 co-written Grammy winning duets album ‘Love, Marriage and
Divorce’. It struck a chord with South
African fans who made it the highest selling album in the country in 2014. Toni
Braxton and Babyface’s tour has long been in demand in Southern Africa.
Catch them live on:
Harare, Zimbabwe - Borrowdale Racecourse - 28 August 2015
Durban - Moses
Mabhida Stadium – 30 August 2015
Cape Town - Grand
Arena, Grandwest – 1 September 2015
Johannesburg – The Ticketpro Dome - 3 September 2015
Tickets start at R450 from www.ticketpro.co.za
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