What's Happening in Auburn, WA…

An artist with 13 Grammys to his credit is coming to Auburn.

Babyface (Kenneth Brian Edmonds) is a native of Indianapolis, Indiana, and is a songwriter and singer, and a prize-winning record producer. He is the composer and producer of 26 R&B hits that made it to number one, and was placed at No. 20 on NME’s 50 of The Greatest Producers Ever list.

He began his career as a child, when he wrote songs to express his emotions after his father passed when he was Kenneth was in eighth grade. He was with the band Manchild, whose 1977 song “Especially for You” was a hit, and also played guitar and keyboards with the Deele, an R&B group, where he met Antonio “L.A.” Reid, who became a producing and writing partner.

In 1983, he wrote “Slow Jam” for the R&B outfit Midnight Star. The song was one of his first hits as a songwriter, and appeared on “No Parking on the Dance Floor,” a 1983 album by Midnight Star that went double platinum. In his fifty-year career, Babyface released three consecutive albums that all went multi-platinum: 1989’s “Tender Lover”; “For the Cool in You” (1993); and 1996’s “The Day.”

Babyface will be at the Muckleshoot Events Center on April 18. The center is located at 2402 Auburn Way South in Auburn. Performances like this benefit from the support they receive when organizers work with poster printing to create advertisements.