New York, NY (Top40 Charts) Seven-time Grammy winner
Toni Braxton will be taking her "As Long As I Live" tour on the road in support of her current "
Sex & Cigarettes" album. The tour begins on January 19 in Columbia, SC and will make a stop at Newark, New Jersey's Prudential Center on Friday, February 8, 2019 at 8 p.m. Special guests for this concert will be SWV, known for their string of top R&B hits selling more than 15 million albums and Kenny "Babyface" Edmonds' award-winning, multi-faceted performer, writer and producer credited for of such megastars as TLC, OutKast, Usher, and Toni Braxton. Toni's "
Sex & Cigarettes" album entered the charts in the Top 5 and the "As Long As I Live" single was #1 on the charts for nine weeks. See Toni Braxton, SWV and Kenny "Babyface" Edmonds' only at the Prudential Center.
General Public Tickets go on sale Friday October 26 at 10 a.m. at Ticketmaster.com or by calling 1-800-3000. Fans can also purchase tickets by visiting the Prudential Center Box Office on Monday, October 29 after 11 a.m. Special VIP packages are on sale on October 26 at ToniBraxton.com for more info.
For more information on
Toni Braxton please visit www.tonibraxton.com, or follow her on Facebook at www.facebook.com/tonibraxton and on Twitter at @ToniBraxton.
About Toni Braxton
The distinctive, sultry vocals of seven-time Grammy Award®-winning recording artist Toni Braxton, singer, songwriter, record producer, actress and philanthropist, have been celebrated internationally ever since she was first introduced to the world by
Babyface and L.A. Reid in 1992. Her self-titled debut album released the next year was a 10 million-selling phenomenon that generated Toni's first Grammys® in 1994, for Best New Artist and Best Female R&B Vocal ("Another Sad Love Song"). The album's longevity led Toni to win her second Best Female R&B Vocal Grammy® the following year (for "Breathe Again"). Her second album, Secrets arrived in '96, and history repeated itself with 15 million worldwide sales. At the Grammy Awards® in 1997, Toni became only the second woman in history (beside Dionne Warwick) to win Best Female Pop Vocal ("Unbreak My Heart") and Best Female R&B Vocal ("You're Makin' Me High") in the same year. She returned to the Grammy® podium in 2001, to claim another Best Female R&B Vocal award ("He Wasn't Man Enough," from the double-platinum album The Heat). In 2015, Toni won a Grammy for "Best R&B Album," for Love, Marriage & Divorce duet outing with Kenny "Babyface" Edmonds.
Into the millennium, Toni blossomed into an acting career with Broadway musical roles in "Beauty and the Beast," "Aida," and "After Midnight" and a dramatic turn in the Lifetime movies "Twist of Faith," "Unbreak My Heart" (based on her novel,) and "Faith Under Fire." She and her sisters currently enjoy huge success in Braxton Family Values, one of WE tv's flagship reality series, returning for its sixth season. Raising her two sons Denim and Diezel, Toni balances her career demands with the high priorities of family, health, public service, and charity work, particularly on behalf of the two diseases that have impacted her family directly: She is living with Lupus and her youngest child is living with Autism. Early detection and intervention has helped both Braxtons to be role models on how to live normal lives with these conditions. Toni is also a proud spokesperson for Autism Speaks and an Ambassador to the UN.
About SWV
In the '90s, the ladies of SWV-Cheryl "Coko" Clemons, Leanne "Lelee" Lyons and
Tamara "Taj" George-were on top of the music world. From the streets of New York to superstardom, they had a string of top ten R&B hits including "I'm So Into You," "Right Here," "Downtown," "Weak," and "You're Always On My Mind." With over 15 million albums sold, a Grammy® nomination, an American
Music Award nomination and 11 Billboard
Music Awards nominations, SWV was unstoppable.
About Kenny "Babyface" Edmonds'
Kenny "Babyface" Edmonds' award-winning, multi-faceted pop/urban career includes the consecutive multi-platinum landmark albums Tender Lover,For the Cool in You (including signature hits "Never Keeping Secrets" and "When Can I See You"), and The Day ("Every Time I Close My Eyes"). As co-founder with L.A. Reid of LaFace Records in 1989,
Babyface nurtured the careers of such megastars as TLC, OutKast, Usher, and Toni Braxton. An 11-time Grammy Award winner,
Babyface most recently released Return of the Tender Lover in December 2015, his first solo album in seven years. This latest project introduces a freer, less structured
Babyface putting his stamp on a contemporary sound he describes as "unapologetic R&B." This album follows up the critical and commercial response to his and Toni Braxton's 2014 Grammy®-winning album Love, Marriage & Divorce.
