Babyface's Top Musical Feats
Babyface has a career worth emulating.
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Babyface's Influence on the Culture - Babyface has been giving us slow jams to vibe with for quite sometime. As a singer, producer and songwriter, his influence on every major facet of pop music during the '90s is pretty much unescapable. His own recordings helped rejuvenate the R&B tradition of the smooth, sensitive, urban crooner and made him a staple of urban contemporary radio. (Photo: E.J. Camp/Corbis)
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Babyface Earns His Nickname - Babyface served a stint in Bootsy Collins's backing unit (where he earned his nickname) and subsequently joined the funk outfit Manchild, who signed a record deal in 1977 and released three albums.(Photo: Harry Langdon/Getty Images)
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Babyface Produces for Greats - Babyface has produced for such musical greats that include Carole King, Jessica Mauboy, Patti Labelle Chaka Khan, Aretha Franklin, Madonna, Janet Jackson and many others.(Photo: Raymond Boyd/Getty Images)
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The Creator of One of the Original Slow Jams - Babyface wrote Midnight Star one of the original slow jams of the 1980s. (Photo: Solar Records)
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Babyface Has The Ultimate Playlist - Playlist is the seventh studio album by Babyface. It was the first long play release on the newly re-launched Mercury Records label.(Photo: Mercury Records)
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Let's Not Forget His Impact on Hip Hop - Babyface was in the studio for about two years with Ashanti to produce her album The Declaration. He worked on the Lil Wayne album Tha Carter III for the Kanye West-produced "Comfortable."(Photo: Jeff Gentner/Getty Images for Grey Goose)
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Making No. 1 Hits Is Nothing New - Throughout Babyface's career, he has produced 26 No. 1 hits! It's fair to say that winning is just common practice for Babyface.(Photo: Roger Williams/Corbis)
