Toni Braxton

Toni Braxton, born in Severn, Maryland, is a singer, songwriter and actress who first sang alongside her sisters in the Braxtons, an R&B group, in the late 1980s, before going solo with LaFace Records. Her self-titled debut arrived in 1993, hit number one on the Billboard 200, sold 10 million copies worldwide and won her three Grammy Awards, including Best New Artist. Secrets followed in 1996 with the hits You're Makin' Me High and Un-Break My Heart, and The Heat came out in 2000. Her awards include seven Grammys and a 2011 place in the Georgia Music Hall of Fame. On screen she made her acting debut in Kingdom Come (2001) and appeared in The Oogieloves in the Big Balloon Adventure (2012) and The Fallen Angels Murder Club (2022), and on Broadway she played Belle in Beauty and the Beast and the title role in Aida. She executive produced and starred in the reality series Braxton Family Values.