Music: Rhythm & Blues

R & B Balladeer.

Producer, songwriter, and performer Babyface (Kenneth Edmonds) was the R & Bsuccess story of the 1990s. He and Antonio "L.A" Reid, his partner in LaFace Records, won the 1992 Grammy for Producer of the Year, and they shared the Best R & B Song Grammy with Daryl Simmons for the Boyz II Men single "End of the Road" (1992). Later that year they produced Whitney Houston's soundtrack album for The Bodyguard, which won the Grammy for the Album of the Year. In 1994 Babyface wrote the Boyz II Men single "111 Make Love to You," which won the Grammy for Best R & BSong, and recorded "When Can I See You," which earned him a Grammy for Best Male R & BVocal Performance. Three more Grammys for Producer of the Year followed (1995, 1996, and 1997). In 1996 Houston's "Exhale (Shoop Shoop)," written by Babyface, won the Grammy for Best R & BSong, and the following year Eric Clapton's single "Change the World,"...

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