Babyface will perform at Spotlight 29 Casino in Coachella on Friday, Feb. 14. (Contributed Image)
I interviewed Kenny “Babyface” Edmonds a couple of weeks back for Friday’s Go + Do cover (he’s playing Spotlight 29 Casino on Friday, Feb. 14 ) and we got to talking about his back catalog.
He has worked with a staggering amount of artists from Aretha Franklin to Eric Clapton to the members of New Edition.
“It was always hard to tell whether you were writing something that was going to last forever,” he said. “The only test is that years later you listen to the radio and something comes on and whether it still feels good.”
He said some songs get better with time. I asked him to elaborate and he mentioned the songs from the 1990s he wrote for Bobby Brown and Johnny Gill
“I think the 90s music starting to feel really good now, to a lot of people. There was a positivity that was there that isn’t in a lot of things today, or over the past decade or so,” Edmonds said.
He also performs in Anaheim on Sunday, Feb. 16.