Toni Braxton is a renowned singer, record producer, songwriter, tv personality, pianist, actress, and philanthropist. The singer is based in the United States and her net worth is a sizable $10 million. She has released many studio albums and many of them have got platinum certifications. She has sold over 10 million copies of her albums.
She has sold over 60 million records. She has also sold over 41 million albums that made her the best-selling musicians across the world. She has also produced television shows. She also remained part of the TV shows such as Dancing with the Stars, Tamar & Vince, and Braxton Family.
Personal details
Real name: Toni Michelle Braxton
Celebrity name: Toni Braxton
Gender: Female
Height: 156.2 cm
Date of birth: 7th October, 1967
Sexual orientation: Straight
Boyfriend: Birdman (2018)
Spouse: Keri Lewis (2001 – 2013)
Children: Denim Cole Braxton-Lewis, Diezel Ky
Toni Braxton Net Worth: $10 million
Source of Wealth: Singer, pianist, songwriter, record producer
Early life
Toni Braxton was born in Severn, Maryland on the 7th of October, 1967. She belongs to a musical and religious family. She was born to Michael and Evelyn. Both were a part of a local Methodist church. Her father was a clergyman and her mother was a pastor. Her father had a job at a power company while her mother was an opera singer. She also worked in a beauty salon. The maternal grandfather of Toni Braxton was a pastor.
Toni Braxton was the oldest of her six siblings. She had a brother Michael and four younger sisters. The first singing performance of Toni Braxton was for the church choir. She was enrolled in a college at the Bowie State University located in Maryland. She wanted to become a teacher. However, she had to rethink her professional preferences after the producer and composer William Pettaway Jr. heard her singing while she was pumping gas. She was alone there and singing to herself at the moment. William convinced Toni Braxton to give try her luck in the field of singing.
Personal life
Toni Braxton met with Keri Lewis on the opening of his group Mint Condition. They married on the 21st of April, 2001. In the same year, Toni Braxton gave birth to Denim. She got pregnant with the second child in 2002 and was prescribed bed rest. Diezel is autistic. The couple divorced in 2013.
Toni Braxton dated rapper Birdman in 2016. The couple engaged in 2018 but called off the engagement in 2019. However, later on, they confirmed that they were still together.
Toni Braxton Career
Toni Braxton teamed up with her sisters to form The Braxtons and signed a deal in 1989 with Arista Records. The groups worked up and released their first single titled Goof Life in 1990. The song failed to find the traction it deserved on the radio. However, it managed to catch the attention of producers Kenneth Edmonds and Antonio Reid. They asked Toni Braxton to record a demo song Love Shoulda Brought You Home. The producers had written the tone for Anita Baker. Baker wanted to give the song to Toni Braxton instead. She sang it and her version was a part of the final soundtrack in addition to a duet between Edmonds and Toni Braxton. Both producers signed Toni Braxton for their LaFace records. From this point, Toni Braxton kicked off the work on her debut album.
The album titled Toni Braxton was released and reached the top on the albums chart. The first single of the album Another Sad Love Song was the number one song on the Adult R & B charts. The debut album of Toni Braxton boasted of five singles. It won about three Grammy Awards including the award for Best New Artist and two more consecutive awards for the Best Female R&B Vocal Performance. Toni Braxton released her second album in 1996. The album was named Secrets. Secrets turned out to be the most successful album of Toni Braxton to date. The first single of the album You’re Makin’ Me High hit the number one spot on the charts of Hot 100. The second single of the album that was named Un-Break My Heart turned out to be the biggest hit in the musical career of Toni Braxton. The song remained at the top position on the Hot Dance Singles Chart for 11 consecutive weeks.
Her other albums namely More Than a Woman, Libra, and Pulse were released while she was caught in a web of health issues and some contract disputes. In 2014, she teamed up with Babyface to release Love, Marriage, & Divorce. The album won a Grammy Award for the Best R&B Album. Her ninth album was titled Sex & Cigarettes. It was released in 2018.
Toni Braxton made the Broadway debut in 1998. She appeared as Belle in ‘Beauty and the Beast.’ Alan Menken wrote a song for Toni Braxton. The song was titled A Change in Me. However, in 1999, Toni Braxton bid farewell to the production team of ‘Beauty and the Beast.’ Toni Braxton also appeared in reality TV shows. Her show Braxton Family Values was aired on WeTV. The show Tamar and Vince feature her younger sister Tamar.
Health issues
In the late summer of 2007, Toni Braxton was diagnosed with breast cancer. She denied it at first. However, he got a benign lump removed from her chest later on. She was hospitalized. She, later on, revealed on a tv show that she was diagnosed with microvascular angina.
Toni Braxton Total Net Worth
Toni Braxton has a net worth of $10 million. In 2014, she bought a 5,323 square feet home in The Oaks locality of Calabasas, California. The house was purchased for $2.9 million. It had four en-suite bedrooms home and was labeled as an affordable home. She sold the home later on for $3.4 million in 2016. Toni Braxton also filed for bankruptcy in 1998 and was $5 million in debt. Her financial situation improved after the release of her album The Heat.
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