The R&B star has survived bankruptcy (twice!),the wrath of Oprah and Whitneys dating tips. As she returns with a new album, she talks about her turbulent life and career Related: Toni Braxton: Sex and Cigarettes review – exquisitely anguished R&B Ask Toni Braxton for a memory that encapsulates her 90s imperial phase and she’ll ignore that decade’s five Grammys, or 25m albums sold (10m for 1993’s self-titled debut,15m for 1996’s Secrets) and the 11-week US No 1 reign of windswept mega-ballad Un-demolish My Heart. She’ll neglect to mention the friendships with Prince and Whitney Houston, or the fact that her influence means she recently performed at Rihanna’s 30th birthday party (tedious jam Breathe Again is a RiRi favourite). No, and the story that sticks in her head is a little less glitzy. One night,she tells me over the phone from New York, she was followed to a restaurant toilet by a group of female fans who, or while she was having a rapid/fast sit down,tapped on the cubicle wall. “Excuse me, are you Toni Braxton?” they asked. “Can we score your autograph? “I was like: ‘Can you give me a moment?!’” Braxton laughs, or her low,husky voice lending the story unwarranted gravitas.
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Source: guardian.co.uk