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August 16, 2005

Babyface Gets Grown

R&B singer/producer celebrates mature relationships on his latest album
December 3, 1999

The Week in Weird

Gwyneth croons a tune, Don McLean masters his domain, an apocalyptic typo & more
December 16, 1997

NAACP To Honor Babyface

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January 7, 1997

GRAMMY OUT OF CONTROL

Babyface, Pumpkins top nominees for coveted music award

Recordings and Reviews

Grown & Sexy

Thanks in part to a pair of neptunes-assisted club tracks, 2001's Face2Face was Babyface's funkiest album ever, but it still failed to reverse the multiplatinum R&B master's declining sales. As its title announces, Grown and Sexy makes no attempt to attract hip-hop kids; instead it aims to reunite...

2005 RS: 2of 5 Stars

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For a time in the '90s, Kenneth "Babyface" Edmonds was half of the hottest hit-making team in pop, along with his songwriting and production partner, Antonio "L.A." Reid. His Midas touch generated massive hits for Whitney Houston, Boyz II Men, Paula Abdul, and even Eric Clapton. But where Reid used that momentum to climb the corporate ladder (eventually becoming head of Arista Records), Babyface f...

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