Biography
Tony Brequeston says about themselves, she says that she is just a holomastic, dreaming of becoming a frog. Millions of fans will not agree with such an alignment. Only one of the hit "Un-Break My Heart" unconditionally built the singer in the rank of the stars of the world scale, brought the first places in the charts and Grammy. Billboard called the song with the most successful single in the entire history of the existence of his best "hundreds".Childhood and youth
Tony Michelle was born in Siven, Maryland, in October 1967. In addition to her, five more children were brought up in the family. Father Michael Konrad was a priest, and the atmosphere in the house did not have to secular entertainment. Mother Evelin, singer, instilled Tony and Sisters Touden, Trinie, Tracy and Taymar Love for music. Taymar is still a soloist of the family team the braxtons.
The first success to the girls came in the last school classes, when a fanatical father allowed some of the relaxation, and the group began to participate in competitions. Victory followed one after another. Once at the petrol station, the sisters got acquainted with Bill Pattayeem, thereby writing hit "Girl You know It`s True" for Pop Duet "Mill Vanilli". With it, the group concluded a contract with Arista Records and released the first single.
A crucial role in the formation of Tony as the singers played the authors of the songs and producers Kenneth Brian Edmonds on the nicknamed Babyface and Antonio Reed, writing for Whitney Houston, Stevie Wander, Asher. Musicians liked the voice of the girl, velvet, almost male, with a low register, and the bracketon was offered to start the solo career. With Bebafia Tony, the success of the "Give U My Heart" and Love Should Brought U Home "compositions have been programmed.
Music
The first album of the singer, named after her name, was divided into a circulation of 11 million copies. Immediately five songs became hits and came out with separate singles. Among them - "Seven Whole Days", "Another Sad Love Song", "How Many Ways". Such a grand debut Tony was marked by three grammy prizes.In 1996, the bracketon - Songs of the "Un-Break My Heart" songs arrived, with which now they are first associated with the performer. Hit became part of the album "Secrets". The title composition "You're Makin 'Me High" turned out with a scandaling raid due to the untouched sexuality of the text. The rest of the songs also delayed the upper lines of charts for a long time.
In 1998, Tony wished to terminate the contract with LafeCe label, but the court proceedings led the singer to bankruptcy. Producers cleared and rebooted an agreement on soutiate conditions. Breksston released the third album "Heat", in addition, spoke on Broadway, becoming the first representative of his nationality among the participants of the musical disney.
In the record record, Rodney Jerkins helped, involved in the success of Spice Girls and Britney Spears. The clip on the song "He Wasn't Man Enough" came to the nominees on MTV Video Music Awards and Billboard Music Video Awards. And the Ballade "Hawaiian Guitar" was awarded the awards Soul Train, American and British Music Awards.
In 2000, Tony became the guest of Superbowl XXXIV Half Time Shows along with Phil Collins, Enrique Iglesias and Christina Aguilera. In a few years, another conflict with producers followed, the commercial failure of the "More Than A Woman" album.
The Libra plate bracketon recorded already on the new label. In the break between the albums, the singer starred in the television film "Kevin Hill".
The seventh studio "Pulse" Bracston introduced only in 2010. Later, Raper Three SonGZ, famous for the film "Texas Chainsaw Massaw" and Soundtrack to "Fasting 7," released a sensual video, in which a duet with Tony performed the song "Yesterday".
Personal life
Tony, like any woman, dreamed of husband and children, about strong and friendly family. In 2001, the singer married a member of the Mint Condition group of Keri Lewis, with whom she lived 12 years old and presented the beloved two sons - Denima-Kaya and Diesel-Kai Bracston Lewis. However, the sad revelations of the artist, which the woman shared with the public at the concert was followed. It turned out, at the younger son Tony - autism. The child could be fully adapted if the disease was revealed in a timely manner, but, according to Mother's opinion, the doctors were late.
Later, apparently, to be to the end of an honest, the celebrity reported that the career took an abortion on the takeoff, and the events that followed were then paying for unrighteous actions. In 2007, Tony made an operation to remove the tumor. A year later, the singer voiced another diagnosis - an increased incidence of capillaries.
There was a question about heart transplantation, but it costs drug support, the truth is lifelong. In 2010, Bracston announced that he was sick with a red lupus. The celebrity often falls into the hospital because of exacerbations, sometimes you have to cancel concerts, and a personal doctor is present on the tours of the scenes.
However, health problems did not forced Tony to refuse the joys of life. In 2016, the Soul star began to notice in the company with Raper Birdman, in the world Brian Williams. With him, the singer met in 2003, during collaboration on the song Baby You Can Do It. In early 2018 on the air from the author's television show, Braxton Family Values Tony reported that they decided to get married with Brian.
Singer on the sign of the zodiac scales, and therefore the nature contradictory, but at the same time striving for harmony and equilibrium. Tony removed the lesson from the tragic moments in life. Now in the first place is not popularity, but charity. Brequeston, despite the fact that he declared a personal bankruptcy twice, pays considerable funds to the funds on Autism Autism Speaks and the heart diseases of American Heart Association.
On the "Instagram" page, Tony states that it is primarily a mother, and in an interview it is recognized that it would never want to be in front of the choice between the scene and maternity.
Tony is not seen in the scandals, only if it is not about the purity of the hotel room. Then the star may demand to move it into another hotel, higher rank. To the pleasure of Heyters, Brekston was suspected of handling plastic, in order to correct the shape of the nose and chest, and in the fact that in the past she was a man. Similarly, the voting unique voice timbre, easy to be misleading, especially if not seeing the singer.
Tony Brequeston now
The total circulation of Discs Tony Brequeston exceeds 60 million, and there is no press, and there will be a great loser singer. The biography of the Grammy's sevenchet owner is similar to the American slides, but Bracmston admits that nothing would never change anything in the past. The ups and downs, personal and professional, formed that Tony, which fans love and appreciate.
In 2017, Bracston again introduced the opportunity to visit the actress. The singer played in the Drama "Faith Under Fire" of the school accountant Antoinette Tuf. The film is filmed on the basis of events that occurred in August 2013 in Georgia.
Then the white man, armed with a machine gun, took hostages by Ronald E. McNair Discovery Learning Academy, in which the majority made up black children, and opened the shooting on the police. Tuf showed an incompleteness and persuaded the raider to surrender.
In the spring of 2018, after an eight-year-old silence, Bracmston presented a new solo album called "Sex and cigarettes". The head composition Deadwood caused a flurry of enthusiastic responses and reminded the former Tony, the star of the 90s.
The song "FOH" The celebrity released in collaboration with Bebafias. Earlier with one of the most successful R & B-producers Bracketon recorded the Love, Marriage & Devorce studio.
On the cover of the album, the singer is depicted in a frank outfit. Brequist, who marked the round anniversary, demonstrated an excellent physical form (weight of 48 kg with a rise of 157 cm). The words of Tony began to comment on the record that she became older and wants to tell her feelings without censorship.
Discography
- 1993 - Toni Braxton
- 1996 - "Secrets"
- 2000 - "The Heat"
- 2001 - "SnowFlakes"
- 2002 - "More Than A Woman"
- 2005 - "Libra"
- 2007 - "The Essential Toni Braxton"
- 2010 - "Pulse"
- 2018 - "Sex & Cigarettes"