Toni Braxton

Toni Braxton is an American R&B singer-songwriter, record producer, and actress. Braxton has won six Grammy Awards, seven American Music Awards, and five Billboard Music Awards and has sold over 40 million records worldwide. She has released seven studio albums, five extended plays, six compilation albums, two remix albums, thirty singles and twenty-one music videos.

In 1990, she and her sisters, as The Braxtons, released the group's debut single, "Good Life". In 1991, Braxton recorded songs for the soundtrack album of 1992 Eddie Murphy film Boomerang.

Her solo debut single, "Love Shoulda Brought You Home", reached the top-ten of the United States Billboard Hot 100 chart and the top-five of the R&B/Hip-Hop Songs chart. Two years later, her self-titled debut album was released. The album topped the United States Billboard 200 and R&B/Hip-Hop Albums charts and was certified eight-times platinum by the Recording Industry Association of America. It spawned four singles, including "Breathe Again", which peaked within the top-ten in the United States, Australia, Canada, Ireland, the Netherlands and the United Kingdom. The album sold over ten million copies worldwide.

Braxton's second studio album, Secrets, was released in 1996, which peaked at number two on the Billboard 200 chart and was certified eight-times platinum by the RIAA. It also made the top-ten in many other countries including Canada, Germany, the Netherlands, Switzerland and the United Kingdom. The album features four singles, including two double A-sides. The first single, "You're Makin' Me High", became Braxton's first number one single in the United States, where it topped the Hot 100 and R&B charts. "Un-Break My Heart", the album's second single, topped the charts in the United States and it became the second biggest-selling single by a female artist in the United States. Secrets has sold about fifteen million copies worldwide.

Her third studio album, The Heat, was released in April 2000. The album debuted at number two on the Billboard 200 chart and topped the R&B/Hip-Hop Albums chart. It also reached number one in Canada and charted within the top-ten in France, Germany, the Netherlands, Switzerland and the United Kingdom. The lead single, "He Wasn't Man Enough", became another top-five Hot 100 hit in the United States for Braxton and the second single, "Just Be a Man About It", became a top-ten R&B hit. The Heat was certified double platinum by the RIAA and has sold four million copies worldwide. Braxton released her first Christmas album, Snowflakes, the next year. Her fifth studio album More Than a Woman was released in 2002. In the United States the album charted within the top-twenty and also received a gold certification.

In April 2003, she released Libra, which debuted at number four on the Billboard 200 chart and was certified gold by the RIAA. Pulse, her seventh studio album, was released in May 2010. The album became another R&B chart topper for Braxton and cracked the top ten of the Billboard 200 chart. The lead single from the album, "Yesterday", peaked at number twelve on the R&B/Hip-Hop Songs chart.