Toni Braxton
Toni Braxton
Toni Michelle Braxton is an American singer–songwriter, pianist, record producer, actress, television personality, and philanthropist. Rising to fame in the early 1990s, Braxton quickly established herself as an R&B icon and became one of the best-selling female artists of the 1990s decade, garnering her honorific titles such as the "Queen of R&B" and being recognized as one of the most outstanding voices of this generation...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionSoul Singer
Date of Birth7 October 1967
CitySevern, MD
CountryUnited States of America
I think that once an artist has proven herself and you sell lots of records, you should be compensated.
I often felt like I was walking around with this Scarlet Letter stitched to my chest from the way that people treated me.
I look at other artists who have had fabulous first albums, and you don't know what they're doing today. Who's to say I'll be an exception to that rule?
I like being in love. I want to be in love, but at this stage of my life, my career is, by far, the most important thing to me. It's my passion.
I let everybody else's negative energy feed on me a little.
I learned that I had to believe in myself and not just to be comfortable with the opinions of others. I'm just more in control; I finalize everything.
I felt that putting my all into the relationship would have taken me away from my career. And I couldn't do that then.
I don't smoke often, maybe once or twice a month, but it makes me feel sexy and romantic.
I do six shows a week. Sometimes my voice gets tired, but I love it.
I was so glad I did Beauty and the Beast. I always wanted to act, and if the bankruptcy thing hadn't happened, I wouldn't have started acting.
Will people think I've been dropped? Oh God, you don't want people to think that. No one will want to touch you if they think you got dropped.
When I watched American Idol, I always thought Simon was the most realistic. Simon's like, It was absolutely horrid. That's what they tell in the music industry.
When I first go out on stage, there are tummy bubbles everywhere.
There are problems with the single already. I don't want to put out the first single, Hit the Freeway.