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Babyface

12 tracks across 2 playlists

Kenny Edmonds — the most quietly important R&B producer-songwriter-vocalist of the last forty years. LaFace co-founder (with L.A. Reid, hence the name) and the architect behind huge stretches of 90s and 2000s R&B: Boyz II Men ('I'll Make Love to You,' 'End of the Road'), TLC ('Baby-Baby-Baby'), Whitney ('Exhale (Shoop Shoop)'), Toni Braxton (entire catalog). The solo records ('Tender Lover,' 'For the Cool in You') are a master class in adult-contemporary writing. Eleven Grammys. If 90s R&B has a shape, Babyface drew it with a soft pencil.