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Tamar Estine Braxton (born March 17, 1977) is an American singer, songwriter, actress and television personality. Braxton began her career in 1990 as a founding member of The Braxtons, an R&B singing group formed with her sisters. The Braxtons released their debut album, ''
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'', as a trio in 1996, and disbanded shortly afterward. In 2000, Braxton released her debut self-titled album through
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. Following a thirteen-year break, Braxton released her second studio album, '' Love and War'' (2013), through
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, which reached the number two position on the ''Billboard'' 200 chart. She later released her fourth and fifth albums, '' Calling All Lovers'' (2015) and '' Bluebird of Happiness'' (2017), respectively. Braxton has won a
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and three
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throughout her career. She has also been nominated for four
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. From 2011 to 2020, Braxton starred in the We TV reality-television series ''
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'' alongside her mother and sisters. She also served as a co-host on the
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syndicated daytime talk show ''
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'' from 2013 until 2016, for which she received two
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nominations. In 2019, she won the second season of ''
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''.


Early life

Tamar Estine Braxton was born on March 17, 1977, to Michael and Evelyn Braxton, in
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. As the youngest of the Braxtons' six children, she began singing as a toddler. The Braxton children would eventually join the choir at church, where their father, Michael Braxton, was a pastor.


Career


1989-1998: Career beginnings and The Braxtons

Tamar and her sisters
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, Traci, Towanda, and Trina, signed their first record deal with
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in 1989. In 1990, they released their first single, " Good Life" with little success. In 1991, during a showcase with
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and
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, who were in the process of forming
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, Toni Braxton, minus her four sisters, was chosen and signed as the label's first female solo artist. At the time, the remaining members were told that LaFace was not looking for another girl group since it had just signed
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. After Toni's departure from the group, the remaining Braxtons members became
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singers for Toni's first tour, and featured in her
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including the single, " Seven Whole Days". In 1993, LaFace Records A&R Vice President, Bryant Reid, signed The Braxtons to LaFace. However, the group never released an album or single for the label. When Reid moved on to work for
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, he convinced executives at
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to allow him to take the group to Atlantic also.Reynolds, J.R. "'So Many' Braxtons on Atlantic Label Downplays Link To Famous Sister." ''Billboard''. July 6, 1996: 18–19. Print. It was reported in
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magazine that in 1995, Traci Braxton had left the group to pursue a career as a youth counselor. However, it was not confirmed until a 2011 promotional appearance on ''
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'', that Traci was not allowed to sign with
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because of her pregnancy at the time. In 1996, Tamar, Trina, and Towanda returned with a new album, ''
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'', which peaked at No. 26 on the ''Billboard'' R&B/Hip-Hop Albums chart. At the time of its release, Reid told ''
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'' magazine, "I had a vision for them then that was about young sophistication with sex appeal." The trio also performed a remixed version of "So Many Ways" with rapper
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on September 9, 1996, at the Soul Train Lady of Soul Awards. "So Many Ways" peaked at No. 83 on the ''Billboard'' Hot 100 chart and number 32 on the UK Singles Chart. The group then served as the opening act for Toni Braxton on the European Leg of her Secrets Tour in 1997. The Braxtons decided to part ways as a group after Tamar left to pursue a solo career with
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in 1998.


1999–2009: ''Tamar'' and label troubles

In 1999, Braxton met Christopher "Tricky" Stewart. She recorded her solo debut album, ''Ridiculous'', so-named for the many different musical styles on the album. The album spawned two buzz singles ("Let Him Go" and "Just Cuz") in hopes of garnering attention from the public eye; however, when the songs failed to gain impact on urban radio outlets, the album was pushed back and canceled. That same year, Braxton was featured on Sole's, "4 The Love of You." Instead of shelving the album,
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abandoned 3 old tracks, added new ones, and renamed it '' Tamar''. The lead single "Get None" was produced by Jermaine "J.D." Dupri and also featured rap verses from him as well as former Jay-Z protégée Amil. The song also included uncredited background vocals and songwriting by R&B singer
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. As soon as the song began to pick up airplay, Braxton announced the album would be released in early 2000, alongside a second single, "If You Don't Wanna Love Me". The album featured production from
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, Tim & Bob, and Tricky Stewart, and peaked at number 127 on the ''Billboard'' 200. When the album's second single failed to gain significant radio airplay, her label dropped her from their roster. In 2001, Braxton's previously unreleased song "Try Me" appeared on the soundtrack album for the film '' Kingdom Come''. She also began to work alongside her sister Toni Braxton in a number of songs and music video cameos, including the video for "
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". She performed, co-wrote and sang background vocals on songs for Toni's albums, '' The Heat'' (2000), ''
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'' (2001), '' More than a Woman'' (2002), ''
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'' (2005) and ''
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'' (2010). When her sister launched her
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revue ''Toni Braxton: Revealed'', Tamar again sang backup until she was replaced by singer Sparkle. By 2004, Braxton was signed to
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's reactivated
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and had begun work on her second album. A "
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"-influenced single, "I'm Leaving", was released with a guest appearance from Bump J. alongside promotional remixes featuring
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, Styles P. and Ali Vegas.


2010–2013: Television debut and ''Love and War''

In 2010, Braxton signed to
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, where she released a single "The Heart In Me" in July of that year. The song was included on the ''Adidas 2: The Music'' compilation. Her momentum with Universal would not rise to a satisfactory level to launch a second album. In January 2010, We TV confirmed that it had signed Braxton and her mother and sisters for a
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series titled ''
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''. The show premiered on April 12, 2011. On December 15, 2011, it was confirmed that Braxton and her husband Vincent would star in their own reality series centered on her solo career and their married life. In November 2011, Braxton performed " Love Overboard" at the 2011 Soul Train Awards for Lifetime Achievement recipient
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. In September 2012, news broke that Braxton had inked a fresh recording contract with Streamline Records, an imprint of
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founded by Vincent. Later that month, her reality television show '' Tamar & Vince'' premiered on We TV. Braxton was the featured model for the "Front Row Couture" collection during the "ELLE/Style360" NYC Fashion Week event. Braxton was a co-host of
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's late night talk show, ''Tiny Tonight'', on
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. '' Basketball Wives'' star Tami Roman became a co-host after Braxton. Later, she hosted ''The Culturelist'', a show on
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's sister channel Centric. In March 2013, it was revealed that Braxton had signed to
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ahead of the release of her second album, '' Love and War''. The album's lead single, the
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, was released on December 6, 2012. The song was a commercial success, spending 9 weeks at #1 on the Adult R&B Songs chart. Although the single reached number one on the US
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chart, it peaked at number 57 on the ''Billboard'' Hot 100 and number 13 on the
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chart. Braxton released " The One" as the second single from ''Love and War'' on May 7, 2013; it peaked at number 34 on the Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs chart. The third single, " All the Way Home", was released August 21, 2013; it peaked at number 96 on the ''Billboard'' Hot 100 and number 37 on the Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs chart. The song was followed by the release of ''Love and War'' on September 3, 2013. The album was a commercial success in the United States, selling 114,000 copies in its opening week; it debuted at number two on the ''Billboard'' 200, falling short of the top spot behind
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's '' Yours Truly'', and was number one on the
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chart. Outside the US, it debuted at number 34 on the UK R&B Albums Chart. In 2013, Braxton began working alongside Adrienne Bailon, Loni Love, Jeannie Mai, and
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, when she became a co-host of the syndicated daytime talk show ''
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'', which premiered that year on July 15. Braxton's special ''Listen Up: Tamar Braxton'' premiered on Centric in September 2013. The second season of ''Tamar & Vince'' premiered on September 5, 2013, and is centered on the preparation and birth of the couple's baby, and her launch of ''Love and War''. On November 11, 2013, Braxton's first
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, '' Winter Loversland'', was released and debuted at number 43 on the ''Billboard'' 200 with 8,000 copies sold in its first week. In December 2013, Braxton received three nominations for the
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: Best Urban Contemporary Album for ''Love and War'', and
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and Best R&B Performance for its title track.


2014–2019: ''Calling All Lovers'', ''Dancing with the Stars'' and ''Bluebird of Happiness''

On February 25, 2014, the remix of
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's single " For the Rest of My Life" which features Braxton, was released as a digital single. Season 3 of ''Tamar & Vince'' premiered in October 2014, and it consisted of 10 episodes just like the previous seasons. On October 6, Braxton's new single " Let Me Know" featuring rapper
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peaked at #2 on the ''
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'' Trending 140 chart, less than an hour after its premiere on Braxton's official
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account and eventually reached #1 by 12:00 am October 7. Billboard.com gave the song 4 out of 5 stars in its review of "The Best and Worst Singles of the Week" for the second week of October. On May 27, 2015, the single " If I Don't Have You" was released. The song peaked at number 6 on the US
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chart. On October 2, 2015, Braxton's new album, '' Calling All Lovers'', was released, peaking at number two on the US
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. On September 2, 2015, she was revealed as one of the celebrities who would be competing on the 21st season of ''
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''. She was paired with reigning champion,
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. On November 11, Braxton revealed that she would have to withdraw from the competition due to health problems. Braxton and Chmerkovskiy finished in fifth place overall. In October 2015, the group The Braxtons, including all five Braxton sisters, released a holiday album titled '' Braxton Family Christmas''. On November 21, ''Braxton Family Christmas'' debuted at number 27 on the US ''Billboard'' R&B/Hip-Hop Albums, number 10 on the US R&B Chart and number 12 on US Top Holiday Albums on November 21, 2015. The album charted at number 4 on the US
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on December 12. On December 7, 2015, Braxton received one Grammy nomination for " If I Don't Have You" at the 58th Annual Grammy Awards: Best R&B Performance from her latest album titled '' Calling All Lovers''. In May 2016, Braxton departed from ''The Real''. The following month, it was announced on ''
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'' that
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had signed Braxton to produce her own talk show and television series with East 112th Street Productions. In April 2017, it was announced that Braxton left Epic Records to sign with
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for a $1 million deal with the label. On April 27, Braxton released " My Man" from her fifth album, '' Bluebird of Happiness''. The song peaked at number three on the US
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. ''Bluebird of Happiness'' was released on September 29, 2017, through Logan Land Records and
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, with " Blind" released as its second single. The album reached the top of the ''
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'' independent chart. On March 23, 2018, Braxton and sister, Towanda, guest-starred in their sister Toni's music video " Long as I Live". In the same year, Braxton appeared on ''
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''. On March 28, 2018, Braxton was featured on
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's song "National Anthem", from his album '' Forbidden''. That same year, Braxton co-starred in the stage play ''Redemption of a Dogg'' opposite
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. In Parallel, she was featured on the song "Lions And Tigers And Bears", from the Todrick Hall musical ''
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''. In 2019, Braxton appeared as a contestant in the second season of the American
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series ''
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''. The show premiered on
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on January 21, 2019, and concluded on February 13, 2019. Braxton won the competition, becoming the first African-American person to win a season of '' Big Brother'' in the
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. In ''Big Brother'' tradition, she appeared on the American television soap opera ''
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'', portraying a character named Chef Chambre. Braxton taped her episode on February 20, 2019 and it aired on March 29, 2019.


2020–present: Television ventures, films and return to music

Braxton starred alongside
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and
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in the film '' True To The Game 2'', which premiered on April 10, 2020. In support of the film, she debuted a new song, "Crazy Kind of Love", which was produced by
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and officially released on March 20, 2020. In April 2020, it was announced that Braxton would be hosting a reality television series for
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, titled ''To Catch A Beautician''; the series premiered in June 2020. In July 2020, Braxton and We TV parted ways, with the network stating that it "will work with her representatives to honor her request to end all future work for the network." Braxton's podcast, ''Under Construction w/ Tamar Braxton'', premiered on streaming services in November 2020, and was nominated at the 53rd NAACP Image Awards for Outstanding Lifestyle/Self-Help Podcast. The We TV docu-series ''Tamar Braxton: Get Ya Life!'', in which she starred, premiered in September 2020. In early 2021, Braxton announced that she had begun recording music again (after announcing retirement in 2017) and would be releasing two albums back-to-back, with the first album's release slated for early 2022. She has since been featured on several songs for other artists, such as Mr.P and Elijah Blake. On November 30, 2022, Braxton starred in the
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-produced Christmas TV movie ''Hip Hop Family Christmas Wedding'', alongside
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,
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,
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,
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, Redman, and
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. On March 17, 2023, Braxton released the single " Changed", which samples SWV's "
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". "Changed" was one of the top 10 R&B songs of that year and debuted at No. 15 on the Billboard R&B Digital Song Sales chart. The song peaked at No. 9 on the Billboard R&B Digital Song Sales chart. It also peaked at No. 2 on the Billboard Adult R&B Airplay chart. On July 23, 2023, she starred in the TV movie ''A Mother’s Intuition''. On September 21, 2023, she voiced the character Star in the acclaimed animated series '' Young Love'' for seven episodes. On November 9, 2023, she acted in the
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Christmas TV movie ''Christmas Angel''. On March 15, 2024, Tamar released "Notice Me". Upon release, the song peaked at No. 2 on the Billboard R&B Digital Song Sales chart and No. 10 on R&B/Hip Hop Digital Song Sales chart.


Artistry

Braxton possesses a four-octave
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. She is also able to sing in a
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."BET Awards 2017 , Behind the Lights of Tamar Braxton"
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She lists
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,
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,
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,
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, and her eldest sister,
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, as some of her musical influences.


Personal life

On an episode of ''The Real'', in 2012, Braxton revealed that she suffers from
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. In November 2015, Braxton discovered that she had several
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in her lungs, which forced her to withdraw from her work on ''
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''. During an interview in October 2020, Braxton stated that she had been diagnosed with
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and depression. In 2001, Braxton married her first husband, Darrell "Delite" Allamby, a songwriter and producer who worked with his frequent songwriting partner Lincoln "Link" Browder, as well as
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,
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and
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. The couple met while Allamby worked on Braxton's 2000 debut album's tracks "Money Can't Buy Me Love" and "Once Again". They divorced in 2003 after two years of marriage. In 2003, she began dating Vincent Herbert, a record executive whom she met through her sister, Toni. Braxton and Herbert married on November 27, 2008. On June 6, 2013, she gave birth to their son, Logan Vincent. In October 2017, Braxton filed for divorce from Herbert, citing "irreconcilable differences" and seeking joint custody of their son. Their divorce was finalized in July 2019. Braxton dated financial adviser David Adefeso from 2018 to 2020. On July 16, 2020, Braxton was hospitalized following a suicide attempt. In September 2020, Adefeso filed a
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against Braxton for
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.


Discography

;Studio albums * '' Tamar'' (2000) * '' Love and War'' (2013) * '' Winter Loversland'' (2013) * '' Calling All Lovers'' (2015) * '' Bluebird of Happiness'' (2017)


Filmography


Film


Television


Stageplay


Tours

As a headliner * Love and War Tour (2014) *Bluebird of Happiness Tour (2018) *Love and War: 10th Anniversary Tour (2023) As a co-headliner *The October Nights: Calling All Lovers Tour (2025) As an opening act *Love in the Future Tour (2013) *Black Panties Tour (2014) * The London Sessions Tour (2015) *Promise to Love Tour (2015) *The Great Xscape Tour (2017-2018) *Welcome to the Dungeon Tour (2019) *R&B Music Experience (2022)


Awards and nominations


References


External links

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