Babyface is famed for his love songs, so it only makes sense that Epic released a collection of his finest, or at least most popular, love songs. This is not the same thing...
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From his Lenny Kravitz-like makeover, you might figure Babyface's first album in five years travels a long way from his usual polite lite-soul. But the changes on Face 2...
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Babyface took his sweet time to deliver the sequel to The Day, a rare flop in his catalog, waiting nearly five years to release Face2Face. He wasn't exactly in seclusion,...
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Babyface is famed for his love songs, so it only makes sense that Epic released a collection of his finest, or at least most popular, love songs. This is not the same thing...
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Admittedly, the Unplugged format (big-name musicians in intimate acoustic surroundings) has become little more than a hip, overplayed promo tool. Yet there are times when...
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Released in 1997, after Babyface became one of the most popular and successful producers in pop music, Kenny "Babyface" Edmonds & Manchild is a career-spanning compilation...
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Babyface had long demonstrated a talent for smooth, seductive, laid-back contemporary soul before he recorded his holiday album, Christmas With Babyface. Those years he...
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Ever since Babyface bounced on the music scene with the R&B group The Deele in the '80s, mainstream music fans have been privy to some of the best R&B ballads money...
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As can be expected with a Babyface retrospective, the songs are top notch and the production is excellent. At his peak in the mid-'90s, Babyface was arguably the American...
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A Closer Look 11/19/1991, Yahoo! Music, Scott Wilson
Striking a chord with women listeners en masse, Edmonds is the '90s equivalent of '70s soul, with a hand firmly on the heartstrings. It can be overly coy, but he manages to...
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Babyface has established himself as both a performing and production star in the '90s. His alternately innocent, hurt, and disillusioned vocals are this decade's equivalent...
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Edmonds displays the ultimate formula here, without letting the listener think they're listening to, well, a formula. A purely romantic record that witnesses him trying to...
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In late 1993 Babyface, who was at the top of his game as pop/R&B's hottest writer and producer, released his acclaimed solo album For the Cool in You. The album featured...
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On his second album, Babyface sings with just enough earnestness to be soulful and just enough sophistication and slickness to avoid sounding too much like a throwback. [The...
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Although it's become a radio staple across nearly all genres, this tends to be nothing more than dance-pop by-the-numbers. There's little differentiation between songs as...
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Babyface's solo debut yielded the first number one R&B hit of the 1990s while establishing Edmonds as a major personality and performer. He wrote or co-wrote much of the...
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The Day was the first album Babyface released after being elevated into a virtually guaranteed hitmaker in the mid-'90s through his work with Whitney Houston, Boyz II Men,...
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After his stint with the Deele in the late '70s, Babyface (along with co-conspirator L.A. Reid) almost single-handedly set the standard of commercial adult contemporary R&B...
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