TONI BRAXTON: Through Musical Legacy, Able To "Breathe Again"

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By Karu F. Daniels, AOL Black Voices

Grammy Award winning R&B diva Toni Braxton's career spanning musical retrospective set to hit stores on Feb. 20With Toni Braxton recently slapping her ex-manager Barry Hankerson with a whopping $10 million lawsuit, the once chart-topping diva turned Las Vegas act needs to be in some good company.

And with Legacy/Sony BMG Music's forthcoming release of 'The Essential Toni Braxton,' she finally will be.

Other music luminaries such as Neil Diamond, Earth Wind & Fire, Bob Dylan, Johnny Mathis, Billy Joel, The Isley Brothers and Barbra Streisand are already apart of the prestigious family of artists who have previously been 'inducted' into Legacy's Essential series of double-CD retrospectives.

To be released on Feb. 20, the 32-track opus marks the first two-disc collection of Toni Braxton's LaFace/Arista career, and the first collection to contain every one of her 16 titles to cross-over the R&B and pop charts between 1992 and 2002.

In addition to the beautiful "Un-break My Heart" and the funky "You're Makin' Me High" (both from her eight times-platinum selling sophomore album, 1996's 'Secrets'), this set will also includes the classic Grammy Award winners and Top 5 hits "Another Sad Love Song," "Breathe Again," "Seven Whole Days," and "You Mean The World To Me" (all from her eight-times-platinum selling self-titled debut album of 1993). "Let It Flow" (from 1995's 'Waiting To Exhale' movie soundtrack and "He Wasn't Man Enough" (from 2000's 'The Heat') are also included.

The Essential Toni Braxton set hits stores on Feb. 20Loads of other songs are also thrown into the mix, including the Dr. Dre-produced "Just Be A Man About It" and hip-hop friendly collaborations with Loon ("Hit The Freeway") and the Big Tymers ("Give It Back")

Added bonuses include the duet with Il Divo, "The Time Of Our Lives," the Official Song of the 2006 FIFA World Cup, the R. Kelly remix of "How Many Ways" and the A cappella track "Good Life" featuring her sisters, The Braxtons.

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