Toni Braxton Is Back!
Music diva returns from heart disease battle with new CD, new record company and new TV acting career
She’s “unbreaking” her heart. A heart disease scare temporarily sidetracked her, but Toni Braxton is blasting back with a new album and a new focus on life. In fact, the happily married mother of two young boys says she has never felt better -- or looked sexier.
“I don’t think I’ve ever felt this sexy in my life,” she says. Those are tall words from the diminutive star, whose vocal talents and sex appeal have propelled her to the top of the music charts and the bright lights of the Broadway marquee.
The 30-something diva says for the first time in her life she is comfortable with herself, and her comfort level is apparent in her new CD, Libra, her debut album for Blackground/Universal Records. It is her first CD since leaving Arista. Recorded in Los Angeles and New York over the last two years, it is set for an August release date.
“I’ve been a little nervous,” she says about her relationship with the new record company. “Because this is a whole new family, a whole new way of thinking, but everyone has made me feel really comfortable.” She says she and her music mentor, L.A. Reid, have smoothed over any lingering tension from her split with his label. In 1992, Reid and Babyface signed her as the first female artist on their then newly formed LaFace Records. “Actually our relationship is very good now; we talk,” she says. “Sometimes you have to get away from it to appreciate the love and treasure it for what it is.”
The first single, “Please,” which she describes as “ghetto fabulous -- yet elegant,” is up-tempo, not Toni’s trademark sultry ballad. “It’s important to reinvent yourself,” she says, trying to avoid being typecast. “You don’t want to come back the same way, with the same music and the same style. I like people to discover my lyrics [and add their own interpretation].”
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