![]() ![]() “Looking back, there were situations where I go: ‘You should have lived louder.’” ![]() What should have been a cause for celebration – Braxton cut two songs for the hugely successful soundtrack to the 1992 Eddie Murphy vehicle Boomerang – was tainted. “ felt like the devil was raging and separating our family,” she says. While their 1990 debut single Good Life flopped, it ended up catching the attention of producers Antonio “LA” Reid and Kenneth “Babyface” Edmonds, who liked some of what they heard the pair would sign Toni to their LaFace label as a solo artist. In the late 1980s, as her parents’ grip loosened, Braxton and her four younger sisters (Traci, Towanda, Trina and Tamar) started performing as the Braxtons. “My voice was really low and deep and that wasn’t really in style then,” she says. She lost count of the times people told her she would make an excellent backing singer. We were very ‘Old Testament’, where a woman couldn’t wear anything pertaining to a man and pants were considered masculine.” While non-secular music was strictly forbidden at home, Braxton would sing in high-school bands, but never the lead, often accompanying on the keyboard. Raised by religious parents in Maryland (her father was a Methodist clergyman, her mother a pastor), her upbringing was strict. Toni Braxton should never have been a star. ![]()
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