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It will feature life-like digital recreations of the band members on stage performing their greatest hits, after they decided they didn’t want to perform on tour.īack in 2000, turned down a $1billion offer to reunite for 250 shows. Download Love, Marriage & Divorce by Toni Braxton at Juno Download. Next May, they will launch a groundbreaking digital concert called Abba Voyage, at the purpose-built Abba Arena in East London on the 50th anniversary of the band being formed. Voyage, which Benny has insisted it will be their final ever album, is set to become the fastest-selling album in the UK in four years, with an estimated 140,000 copies expected to sold in its first week. She is now in a relationship with WH Smith heir Henry Smith, 5th Viscount Hambleden.Īgnetha had a three-year marriage to a surgeon, Tomas Sonnenfeld, which ended in 1993 and is believed to be the only member who is single.Ībba, that is now one of the best-selling acts of all time, released eight studio albums from 1973 to 1981. However, he he died from lymphoma in 1999.
In 1981, just six months after his divorce was granted, Bjorn married music journalist Lena Kallersjo who he has been with ever since, while Benny married Swedish TV presenter Mona Norklit that same year.ĪBBA declared they're finally breaking up for good after announcing comebackįrida married Prince Heinrich Ruzzo of Reuss in 1992.
Meanwhile, the second song ended with the line: “Love and hope is why I am here now.” In the first track, they sang about sharing “a union of heart and mind, the likes of which are rare and oh so hard to find.” “Happy to see me or a bit embarrassed? There’s a darkness deep in your blue eyes.”īack in September they released the first two tracks from the album: I Still Have Faith In You and Don’t Shut Me Down. They continue: “So is the outside world as you imagined? Was it worth it, severing the ties? Or could it be, you miss the good old times when you danced with me?” They sing: “You’re just here for the music, that’s all. But, it’s over.”Īnother song called When You Danced With Me shows them appearing to question whether Benny and Bjorn wanted to reunite for more than just the music. Overall, the Toni Braxton/Kenny “Babyface” Edmonds duo is a gem, and I personally hope we get to experience more of this collective on future projects.“My little boy looks so happy. Additionally, the deluxe edition of this album includes two bonus tracks, “Let’s Do It” and a beautiful song, “The One,” that expresses the joys of being in love.
Other highlights include the lead single “Hurt You,” an intense confessional dialogue between two people who are both taking full responsibility for hurting each other. Not enough to make you die, but only make you cry, like you did to me.” I hope, I hope, I hope she gives you a disease, so that you will see. She expertly sings rather direct, maybe even troubling, but very honest lyrics over a sweet, sparse instrumental arrangement featuring piano, giving the song an almost eerie quality that is quite compelling: “I wish, I wish, I wish she’d break your heart like you did me. “I Wish,” also a solo performance by Braxton, is a personal favorite. Both songs are about the need to leave the relationship, but each artist has a unique approach, with Babyface still showing care and love, while Toni makes it clear that she’s be better off alone.
That said, the album runs the gamut of relationship issues and the accompanying emotions-from the arguments, acknowledging the end of a relationship, attempting to rekindle, and even going through with the divorce but missing the person you used to be in love with-and they cover it all with raw, unmasked lyrics that get at the core of the meaning of each song.Īlmost exclusively produced by Babyface, the album consists primarily of duets, but there are a few songs where the duo splits to perform solo, including “I Hope That You’re Okay” performed by Babyface, and “I’d Rather Be Broke” performed by Braxton. Love, Marriage and Divorce explicitly explores aspects of life that Braxton and Babyface have in common, both having gone through divorce. Now, on their new project, it’s very clear the musical and vocal union of Braxton and Edmonds is a perfect fit. More recently, we were gifted with the magic of their career-catapulting duet, “ Give You My Heart,” recorded for the soundtrack to the film Boomerang. Babyface had a powerful impact on Braxton’s earlier career and was a significant player in her development as an artist as well as the creation of her first two albums. Love, Marriage and Divorce is a reunion of two undisputed talents-Toni Braxton, a six time Grammy Award winner, seven-time American Music Award winner, and nine-time Billboard Award winner and Kenny “Babyface” Edmonds, an undeniable hit songwriter and ten-time Grammy Award winner.