Kenny “Babyface” Edmonds, one of the most celebrated creative forces in music history will be heating up the stage of The Neal S Blaisdell Arena.
In a relatively short time, he has reached icon status as a poignant tune smith, prolific hit maker/producer, superstar recording artist, and revolutionary label owner. He is a statistical juggernaut, who keeps adding milestone after milestone to a legacy that seems to have no threshold or peak in sight.
Babyface has contributed to over 800 million records sold and over a billion records streamed. He produced and wrote 125 Top 10 Hits, 42 number 1 R&B hits and 16 number 1 pop hits. He won a total of 12 Grammys, being nominated 79 times. Throughout his career, Babyface has won the BMI Pop Songwriter of the Year trophy seven times, received a total of 51 BMI Awards as well as 4 American music awards, 5 soul train awards, 5 NAACP Image awards and many more. He also produced and co-wrote the Oscar winning song When you Believe, sung by Whitney Houston and Mariah Carey.
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Opening for Babyface is Josh Tatofi, an award-nominated musician. Josh is popularly known for several of his music albums and cover songs. Tatofi debuted with a Hawaiian language song 'Pua Kiele' in 2016. This changed his life forever as he got nominated for his first Grammy awards.