Secrets (1996), Braxton's second studio album, saw continued commercial success, selling 15 million copies and generating the singles "You're Makin' Me High" and "Un-Break My Heart", which became her first singles to reach the top of the Billboard Hot 100 chart in the United States. The album brought Braxton three Grammy Awards, including Best New Artist. Her self-titled debut studio album (1993) reached number one on the Billboard 200 chart in the United States, selling 10 million copies worldwide and seeing the international success of the singles "Another Sad Love Song" and "Breathe Again". She began performing with her sisters in a family group known as The Braxtons in the late 1980s, who were signed to Arista Records.īraxton attracted the attention of producers Antonio "L.A." Reid and Kenneth "Babyface" Edmonds, later recording a series of songs for them before being signed to their Arista-distributed imprint, LaFace Records.
Album DescriptionToni Michelle Braxton (born October 7, 1967) is an American singer, songwriter, pianist, record producer, actress, television personality, and philanthropist. See More Your browser does not support the audio element. Although this is her spottiest album to date, her fans shouldn't have any trouble appreciating it. Beyond the obvious single choices - produced by big names like Scott Storch and Bryan-Michael Cox - two songs handled by the Underdogs' Antonio Dixon ("Sposed to Be" and "Finally") are as sublime and plush as any other pair in Braxton's catalog. "Take This Ring," produced by Rich Harrison, adds some unexpected rambunctiousness, yet it's about one-tenth as exciting as Amerie's like-sounding "1 Thing" (also Harrison's work).
It's lean and balanced, just like all other Braxton albums, though too many songs are tepid and merely functional for background listening, so it winds up a safe distance from the likes of the self-titled debut and Secrets. (Granted, Braxton's no stranger to protracted gaps in her release schedule.) Libra offers no surprises. Half a year after the album's release, Braxton was off Arista and on the Universal-distributed Blackground, but Libra didn't surface until fall of 2005. Only one Neptunes-produced single was spun off from it, which peaked somewhere in the eighties of the Hot 100. It was a stormy relationship that ended with the fast death of 2002's fine More Than a Woman. Libra marks Toni Braxton's departure from Arista, her longtime label. Purchase and download this album in a wide variety of formats depending on your needs.
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