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THIS TIME NEXT YEAR

 from SNOWFLAKES

written by David Foster & Kenny “Babyface” Edmonds

David Foster and Kenny “Babyface” Edmonds are two of the world’s most talented and successful music producers. They owned the Nineties with their countless hit singles and expressed mutual admiration and respect. During those years, Foster had the chance to produce Babyface, also a skilled singer, on a couple of occasions. The two hitmakers with Linda Thompson composed the Celine Dion anthem, “The Power Of The Dream,” for the 1998 Olympic Games in Atlanta . At the end of the decade, Foster and Babyface co-wrote another beautiful ballad entitled “This Time Next Year.”

WOMAN

from PULSE

written by Steve Mac & Wayne Hector

“Pulse,” released in the spring of 2010, was Toni Braxton’s comeback album.
The R&B diva signed a new contract with Atlantic Records and worked for almost two years to carefully pick and record material for this new release. Among the producers and songwriters enlisted were Harvey Mason Jr., Simon Franglen, Chuck Harmony, Troy Taylor and David Foster. Foster and Braxton collaborated on some of her previous projects and especially on the smash “Un-Break My Heart” in 1996 that owned the top of Billboard’s Hot 100 for eleven weeks.

SPANISH GUITAR

From THE HEAT

Written by Diane Warren

Released in 2000, “The Heat” was Toni Braxton’s third album and another huge hit for the singer. It sold over six millions worldwide and was certified multi-platinum in the USA with over two million in sales. Musically, “The Heat” took the performer towards more urban/dance material like the first single, “He Wasn’t Man Enough,” co-written and produced by Rodney Jerkins.

UN-BREAK MY HEART

From SECRETS
Written by Diane Warren

“Un-Break My Heart” is one of the biggest hits of David Foster’s amazing career. It is just one of several songs written by Diane Warren as well as arranged and produced by Foster that skyrocketed to the top of the charts during the nineties.

BROWN BABY

From FOR OUR CHILDREN TOO
Written by Oscar Brown

Everybody knows about “Unbreak My Heart”, the Toni Braxton/David Foster collaboration that has been on top of the charts for several weeks in 1996, being one of the biggest hits of both their careers, but sure not so many are aware of “Brown Baby”, a song that they did, always in 1996, for a very special project entitled “For Our Children Too”.