Kenny "Babyface" Edmonds will be competing on the upcoming 23rd season of Dancing with the Stars when it premieres Monday, September 12 on ABC.
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Babyface has written and produced over 26 No. 1 R&B hits throughout his career, and has won 11 Grammy Awards. Babyface released his first solo album in seven years, Return of the Tender Lover, this past December.
Babyface is certainly talented vocally and musically, so it wouldn't be a big surprise if he can dance! He will be partnered with pro dancer Allison Holker for his Dancing with the Stars experience.
Below is a list of 7 facts Reality TV World has compiled about Babyface:
- He has three children, Brandon and Dylan from his first wife Tracey Edmonds, as well as a daughter Peyton from his now-wife Nicole "Nikki" Pantenburg. Nikki was his former backup dancer and they wed in May 2014.
- Babyface has produced and written/co-written hits for stars including Whitney Houston, Michael Jackson, Boyz II Men, Mariah Carey, Beyonce, Madonna, Celine Dion, Jennifer Hudson and Ariana Grande.
- When the singer was in eighth grade, his father died of lung cancer, leaving his mother to raise her six sons alone.
- Babyface and his then-wife Tracey set up Edmonds Entertainment Group in the mid-1990s, which produced films such as Soul Food in 1997 and Josie and the Pussycats in 2001.
- He served as a duet partner on the Fox reality show Celebrity Duets back in 2006.
- In 1999, a 25-mile stretch of Interstate 65 that runs through Indianapolis was renamed Kenneth "Babyface" Edmonds Highway.
- Babyface donated money to the former presidential campaign of Republican Senator Marco Rubio last year.
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