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This is a list of awards and nominations received by Toni Braxton, an American R&B/pop singer.
| Year | Nominee / work | Award | Result |
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| 1994 | Toni Braxton | Favorite Adult Contemporary New Artist | Won |
| Favorite Soul/R&B New Artist | Won | ||
| Favorite Soul/R&B Female Artist | Nominated | ||
| 1995 | Nominated | ||
| Toni Braxton | Favorite Soul/R&B Album | Won | |
| 1997 | Secrets | Won | |
| Toni Braxton | Favorite Soul/R&B Female Artist | Won | |
| 1998 | Nominated | ||
| Favorite Pop/Rock Female Artist | Nominated | ||
| 2001 | Favorite Soul/R&B Female Artist | Won | |
| The Heat | Favorite Soul/R&B Album | Won |
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| 1996 | Best R&B Single ("You're Makin' Me High") | Won |
| 1997 | R&B Artist of the Year, Female | Won |
| Adult Contemporary Artist of the Year, Female | Won | |
| Adult Contemporary Single of the Year ("Un-Break My Heart") | Won | |
| 2000 | R&B Artist of the Year, Female | Won |
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| 1997 | Toni Braxton | Best International Female | Nominated |
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| 1998 | Toni Braxton | Best International Pop/Rock Female Artist | Won |
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The Grammy Awards are awarded annually by the National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences. Braxton has won seven awards from thirteen nominations, including Best New Artist.
| Year | Nominee / work | Award | Result |
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| 1994 | Toni Braxton | Best New Artist | Won |
| "Another Sad Love Song" | Best R&B Vocal Performance, Female | Won | |
| 1995 | "Breathe Again" | Best Female R&B Vocal Performance | Won |
| 1996 | "I Belong to You" | Nominated | |
| 1997 | "You're Makin' Me High" | Won | |
| "Un-Break My Heart" | Best Female Pop Vocal Performance | Won | |
| Secrets | Best Pop Vocal Album | Nominated | |
| 2001 | "He Wasn't Man Enough" | Best Female R&B Vocal Performance | Won |
| The Heat | Best R&B Album | Nominated | |
| 2015 | Love, Marriage & Divorce (with Babyface) | Won | |
| 2019 | Sex & Cigarettes | Nominated | |
| "Long as I Live" | Best R&B Performance | Nominated | |
| Best R&B Song | Nominated |
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| 1996 | Toni Braxton | Best Female | Nominated |
| 1997 | Nominated | ||
| Best R&B | Nominated |
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| 1994 | "Breathe Again" | Best R&B Video | Nominated |
| 1996 | "You're Makin' Me High" | Nominated | |
| 1997 | "Un-Break My Heart" | Nominated | |
| Best Female Video | Nominated | ||
| 2000 | "He Wasn't Man Enough" | Nominated | |
| Best R&B Video | Nominated |
| Year | Nominee / work | Award | Result |
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| 1994 | Toni Braxton | Outstanding Female Artist | Nominated |
| 1997 | Won | ||
| "Un-Break My Heart" | Outstanding Music Video | Nominated | |
| 2001 | Toni Braxton | Outstanding Female Artist | Nominated |
| 2006 | Nominated | ||
| 2015 | Toni Braxton and Babyface | Outstanding Duo or Group | Nominated |
| Love, Marriage & Divorce | Outstanding Album | Nominated | |
| 2019 | Toni Braxton | Outstanding Actress in a Television Movie, Limited-Series or Dramatic Special | Nominated |
| "Long as I Live" | Outstanding Song – Traditional | Won | |
| 2021 | "Live Out Your Love" | Outstanding Duo or Group or Collaboration (Traditional) | Nominated |
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| 1993 | "Love Shoulda Brought You Home" | Best R&B/Soul Single, Female | Nominated |
| 1994 | Toni Braxton | Best R&B Album of the Year, Female | Won |
| "Breathe Again" | Best R&B/Soul Song of the Year | Nominated | |
| Best R&B/Soul Music Video | Nominated | ||
| Best R&B/Soul Single, Female | Won | ||
| 1995 | "You Mean the World to Me" | Nominated | |
| 1997 | "You're Makin' Me High/Let It Flow" | Won | |
| Secrets | Best R&B Album of the Year, Female | Won | |
| 2001 | The Heat | Nominated | |
| 2017 | Toni Braxton | Legend Award | Won |
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| 2000 | Toni Braxton | Most Fashionable Female Artist | Nominated |
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Toni Michele Braxton is an American R&B singer, songwriter, actress and television personality. She has sold over 70 million records worldwide and is one of the best-selling female artists in history. Braxton has won seven Grammy Awards, nine Billboard Music Awards, seven American Music Awards, and numerous other accolades. In 2011, Braxton was inducted into the Georgia Music Hall of Fame. In 2017 she was honored with the Legend Award at the Soul Train Music Awards.
Secrets is the second studio album by American singer Toni Braxton, released on June 18, 1996, by LaFace Records and Arista Records. The album was nominated for Best Pop Album at the 1997 Grammy Awards. Secrets has been certified eight-times platinum by the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA). Worldwide, the album has sold over 15 million copies. In support of the album, Braxton embarked on the Secrets Tour, playing dates in North America and Europe from August 1996 to October 1997.
The Heat is the third studio album by American singer Toni Braxton, released on April 25, 2000, by LaFace Records. The album marked Braxton's departure from her ballads in favor of a more urban sound. Most of the songs were written and produced by Braxton and her husband Keri Lewis ; two ballads were penned by Diane Warren, and collaborations featured rappers Dr. Dre and Lisa "Left Eye" Lopes.
"Un-Break My Heart" is a song by American singer Toni Braxton for her second studio album, Secrets (1996). The song was written by Diane Warren and produced by David Foster. It was released as the second single from the album on October 7, 1996, through LaFace Records. The song is a ballad about a "blistering heartbreak" in which the singer begs a former lover to return and undo the pain he has caused. It won Best Female Pop Vocal Performance at the 39th Annual Grammy Awards in 1997. It has sold over 10 million copies worldwide and nearly 3 million in the United States alone, making it one of the best selling singles of all time.
Tamar Estine Braxton is an American singer and television personality.
More Than a Woman is the fifth studio album by American singer Toni Braxton, released on November 18, 2002, by Arista Records. The album contained both hip hop and urban adult contemporary sounds, as well as some softer and more contemporary melodies. Throughout the project, Braxton worked with her sister Tamar and husband Keri Lewis on most of the songs, who had written and produced material for her previous album. She also worked with hip hop producers and rappers such as Irv Gotti, The Neptunes, Mannie Fresh and Loon, as well as Rodney "Darkchild" Jerkins, protégé Big Bert and his domestic partner, singer Brandy.
"Hit the Freeway" is a song by American recording artist Toni Braxton, released as the lead single from her fourth studio album, More Than a Woman (2002). The song, which features American rapper Loon, was written by Pharrell Williams and Loon himself, while production was handled by Pharrell's production duo The Neptunes. It is a hip hop and R&B song, with lyrics about an ex trying to rekindle with Braxton, but Braxton claims she's not interested in him anymore.
"He Wasn't Man Enough" is a song by American R&B singer and songwriter Toni Braxton. It was written by Rodney "Darkchild" Jerkins, Fred Jerkins III, LaShawn Daniels, and Harvey Mason, Jr. for her third studio album, The Heat (2000), while production was helmed by the former. "He Wasn't Man Enough" is an uptempo R&B song that differs from Braxton's previous ballads. The song was released by LaFace Records on February 29, 2000, as the lead single from the album.
American singer Toni Braxton has released ten studio albums, five extended plays, six compilation albums, two remix albums, thirty-four singles, two video albums and twenty-two music videos in a career spanning over 30 years. Braxton was born in Severn, Maryland, on October 7, 1967. Her mother, an opera vocalist, encouraged Braxton and her four sisters to sing in church at a young age. In 1990, songwriter Bill Pettaway discovered the sisters and helped them obtain a record deal with Arista Records, as the group titled The Braxtons; the group's debut single, "Good Life", was released the same year. Although the song failed to chart, Braxton's voice caught the attention of producers, L.A. Reid and Babyface, who signed her to their newly formed LaFace Records. In 1991, Braxton recorded songs for the soundtrack to the 1992 film Boomerang. Her solo debut single, "Love Shoulda Brought You Home", reached the top forty of the US Billboard Hot 100 chart and the top five of the Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs chart. Two years later, her self-titled debut album was issued through LaFace. The album topped the US Billboard 200 and R&B/Hip-Hop Albums charts and was certified eight-times platinum by the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA). It spawned four singles, including "Breathe Again", which peaked within the top ten in the United States, Australia, Canada, Ireland, the Netherlands and the United Kingdom. The album has sold over ten million copies worldwide.
"You're Makin' Me High" is the lead single from American singer Toni Braxton's second studio album, Secrets (1996). The mid-tempo song represents a joint collaboration between the Grammy Award-winning producer Babyface and Bryce Wilson. The beat of the song was originally for singer-songwriter Brandy, with Dallas Austin pegged to write a lyric to override; however, Braxton had Babyface write lyrics for the song. It was ultimately issued in the United States as a double A-side with "Let It Flow", the airplay hit from the 1995 film Waiting to Exhale.
"Another Sad Love Song" is a song by American singer-songwriter Toni Braxton. Written and produced by Daryl Simmons and Babyface, featuring additional production from L.A. Reid, it was released as the lead single and its opening track from Braxton's self-titled debut album (1993) on June 11, 1993, by LaFace Records and Arista Records. Lyrically, it talks about Braxton complaining that every song played on the radio is a reminder of her ex-boyfriend.
"Breathe Again" is a song by American R&B singer Toni Braxton. It was written by Kenneth "Babyface" Edmonds and produced by Edmonds, L.A. Reid, and Daryl Simmons for Braxton's self-titled debut album (1993). Its lyrics evokes a sense of nostalgia from a relationship that has run its course. The ballad was released as the album's second single on October 6, 1993, by LaFace and Arista Records.
"I Don't Want To" is a song recorded by American R&B singer Toni Braxton for her second studio album, Secrets (1996). It was released as the third single from the album on March 11, 1997; in the United States it was released as a double A-side with "I Love Me Some Him". Written and produced by R. Kelly, the R&B ballad describes the agony of a break-up. The song was well received by music critics, who were complimentary about Kelly's production.
"I Love Me Some Him" is a song by American R&B singer Toni Braxton from her second studio album, Secrets (1996). Written by Andrea Martin and Gloria Stewart and produced by the Danish duo Soulshock & Karlin, the song was released as the flipside to the album's third single, "I Don't Want To", solely in the United States, while international versions of "I Don't Want To" did not include "I Love Me Some Him".
"Spanish Guitar" is a song by American singer Toni Braxton from her third studio album, The Heat (2000). It was released on September 11, 2000, as the album's third single by LaFace Records and Arista Records. The song was written by Diane Warren and produced by David Foster. It was never released as a commercial single in the United States, where the song reached number 98 on the Billboard Hot 100.
The Essential Toni Braxton is a compilation album by the American recording artist Toni Braxton in Sony BMG's The Essential series. Released in February 2007, it follows the earlier compilations Ultimate Toni Braxton, released in 2003, and Braxton's Platinum & Gold Collection, released in 2004. The Essential is a 2 disc album with thirty-six of Braxton's best songs. It also includes a song done with her sister group The Braxtons, "The Good Life".
"Yesterday" is a song by American R&B singer–songwriter Toni Braxton. The track is the lead single from her album, Pulse, released on May 4, 2010. Trey Songz appears on the American version released to radio, "Troy Taylor Radio Edit". Outside North America, the original version of the song was released, which features only Braxton's vocals.
Pulse is the seventh studio album by American singer and songwriter Toni Braxton. It was released on May 4, 2010, by Atlantic Records. Her first album in five years and served as Braxton's debut for the Atlantic label, after signing a new record deal. Production for the album took place during September 2008 to March 2010 and was handled by several record producers, including David Foster, Harvey Mason, Jr., Frank E, Oak Felder, Lucas Secon, Simon Franglen and Stargate. Pulse features up-tempo songs and R&B ballads with production varying from smooth to dance-based styles.
"Hands Tied" is a song by American singer Toni Braxton, taken from her sixth studio album Pulse (2010). It was written by Heather Bright, Warren "Oak" Felder, and Harvey Mason Jr., while production was helmed by Oak and Mason. A mid-paced contemporary R&B ballad, the instrumentation of "Hands Tied" consists essentially of synthesizers, electric guitar, and a cascading piano line. Lyrically, it features Braxton as the protagonist talking about how she could love a man with her hands tied, singing in double entendres with repeated phrases in the chorus of "Hands Tied."
"Long as I Live" is a song by American singer Toni Braxton from her eighth studio album Sex & Cigarettes (2018). Written by Braxton, Paul Boutin, and Antonio Dixon, whom also produced the track, it is a "soulful '90s-style" R&B and soul track that finds the singer struggling with breaking up and moving on from her past lover. The song was released on February 9, 2018 by Def Jam Recordings as the second single from the album, with an accompanying music video premiered on March 23, 2018 to coincide with the parent album's release.
