"Suddenly" is a song by American R&B singer–songwriter

Toni Braxton Toni Michele Braxton (born October 7, 1966) is an American singer, songwriter, actress and television personality. She has sold over 70 million records worldwide and is one of the best-selling female artists in history. Braxton has won seven ...

, released internationally in February 2006 as the

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from the European edition of her sixth studio album, ''

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'' (2005). Written and produced by

Richard Marx Richard Noel Marx (born September 16, 1963) is an American singer-songwriter. He has sold over 30 million albums worldwide. Marx's first number one success as a songwriter came in 1984 with " What About Me?", which was recorded by Kenny Rogers ...

, it failed to make the charts anywhere. The track features

Chris Botti Christopher Stephen Botti ( ; born October 12, 1962) is an American trumpeter and composer. In 2013, Botti won the Grammy Award in the Grammy Award for Best Pop Instrumental Album, Best Pop Instrumental Album category, for the album Impressions ...

on the

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, and was originally planned to appear on his 2005 album '' To Love Again: The Duets''. Marx recorded this song as a duet with Braxton for his 2008 studio release '' Sundown'' and would later release it as a solo track on '' Now And Forever: The Ballads'' (2014) and yet as a different version on ''

Beautiful Goodbye "Beautiful Goodbye" is a song co-written and recorded by American country music artist Jennifer Hanson. It was released in July 2002 as the first single from her debut album ''Jennifer Hanson''. The song was written by Hanson and Kim Patton-Joh ...

'' (2014).

Track listing

All tracks written and produced by

Personnel

Credits adapted from liner notes of ''Libra''.Braxton, Toni (2006). ''

'' (liner notes). Toni Braxton.

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Performers and musicians *Toni Braxton –

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–

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, keyboards,

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backing vocals A backing vocalist is a singer who provides vocal harmony with the lead vocalist or other backing vocalists. A backing vocalist may also sing alone as a lead-in to the main vocalist's entry or to sing a counter-melody. Backing vocalists are us ...

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*Bruce Gaitsch –

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Technical *Richard Marx – producer,

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*David Cole –

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*Mat Prock – engineer *Chip Matthews – engineer, mixing *Al Schmidt – engineer *Brian Gill – assistant engineer

Charts

References

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