She said: "some people only know it as a – gay – dance song!" "Un-Break My Heart" was conceived from its title, and, according to Warren, "it popped into my head, and I thought, 'I don't think I've heard that before, that's kind of interesting.' I started playing around on the piano with these chords and did a key change, and then I knew, 'OK, this is magic.'" Warren further explained that she wrote "Un-Break My Heart" as a ballad and dance song, because that was the way she heard it. When asked about her songwriting process, she said that songs usually come to her from a title, a chorus, or a drum beat. "Un-Break My Heart" has been covered by several artists, including American alternative rock band Weezer on the album Death to False Metal.ĭiane Warren wrote "Un-Break My Heart" in 1995. Braxton performed the song on the opening ceremony of the 1996 Billboard Music Awards. It portrays Braxton mourning the death of her lover, while remembering the good times they had together.
In Europe, the song reached the top-five in more than ten countries while peaking at number one in Austria, Belgium (Wallonia), Romania, Sweden, and Switzerland.īille Woodruff directed the accompanying video for the single. When Billboard celebrated their 40 years charting from 1958 to 1998, the song was declared as the most successful song by a solo artist in the Billboard Hot 100 history. In the United States, the song reached number one on the Billboard Hot 100, where it stayed a total of eleven weeks, while reaching the same position on the Hot Dance Club Songs and Adult Contemporary component charts. "Un-Break My Heart" attained commercial success worldwide. It has sold over 10 million copies worldwide nearly 3 million in the United States alone, making it one of the best selling singles of all time. It won Best Female Pop Vocal Performance at the 39th Annual Grammy Awards in 1997. 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 was released as the second single from the album on October 7, 1996, through LaFace Records. The song was written by Diane Warren and produced by David Foster. " Un-Break My Heart" is a song by American singer Toni Braxton for her second studio album, Secrets (1996). " I Don't Want To" / " I Love Me Some Him" " You're Makin' Me High" / " Let It Flow" The Record Plant (Hollywood, California).Her first two records, 1993’s Toni Braxton and 1996’s Secrets, topped charts and went multiplatinum with seductive yet palatable singles like “Breathe Again,” “You’re Makin’ Me High,” and “Un-Break My Heart.” Financial disputes and a private struggle with lupus slowed the singer down as the 21st century dawned, but she battled through, releasing albums that consistently hit the charts while staying true to her sensual, measured sound.1996 single by Toni Braxton "Un-Break My Heart" It was love at first listen, and Braxton soon signed to his and L.A. In time, the secular won out, and in the late 1980s they formed The Braxtons, a short-lived singing group that brought Toni to the attention of R&B singer, songwriter, and producer Babyface. The girls grew up officially listening to (and singing) only gospel music, but they snuck in viewings of Soul Train when their parents were out of the house. Braxton was born in 1967 in Severn, MD, and raised in a big and very religious family she’s famously tight with her four sisters. That chameleon-like flexibility helped make her a ubiquitous and multiplatinum-selling artist in the 1990s, with Quiet Storm slow jams that graced both dance floors and doctors’ offices. For decades, the singer has struck a balance between hip-hop/R&B and adult contemporary, bolstered by her smoky contralto voice and a magical ability to sound both sultry and smooth. Blige epitomized the hip-hop/soul hybrid of the 1990s, Toni Braxton was the mature, sophisticated older cousin you listened to when you turned the lamps down low.
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