Babyface

Released: December 4, 2015

Featuring: El DeBarge

Songwriter: Babyface Daryl Simmons

Producer: Babyface

[Verse 1: Babyface]
One in a billion
That's what you are
Girl I'm in love with the feeling
The way you touch my heart
You are the good in my good times
You are the sun in my sunshine
You know you know you know you mean the world to me
You are my everything

[Chorus Babyface/El DeBarge]
When I'm with you I'm walking on air
When I'm with you I don't have a care
Nothing better than holding hands together walking in the sunlight
Spending time forever with you
When I'm with you nothing compares
When I'm with you girl...can't help but swear
When we're together wander in the moonlight
Spending time forever with you

[Verse 2: El DeBarge]
When I'm with you baby
That's what you do
One in a zillion
My shining star
You know I'm ready and willing to go wherever you are
You are the love in my love life
You are the star in my star light
You know you know you know you mean the world to me
And you are my everything

[Chorus Babyface/El DeBarge]

[Verse 3: Babyface]
When I'm with you
Never felt this kind of feeling before
I never knew that I could feel this much in love with you
So in love with you

[Chorus Babyface/El DeBarge] x2

Kenneth “Babyface” Edmonds (born April 10, 1959 in Indianapolis, Indiana) is a Grammy Award-winning producer, singer, and songwriter responsible for a string of hits in the 1980s and 1990s. He has written and produced more than 20 number-one hits and won 11 Grammys—including three for Producer of the Year—for his work with Boyz II Men, Whitney Houston, Eric Clapton, Alicia Keys, and Toni Braxton, as well as his own work as an artist.

Babyface got his nickname from funk legend Bootsy Collins after joining his backing band in the 1970s. He joined the group Manchild in the late ‘70s—a group that also included his frequent collaborator Daryl Simmons—before moving out West and working with the group The Deele in the early 1980s, forming a bond with his bandmate and future production partner L.A. Reid. After producing the hit “Two Occasions” for The Deele, L.A. & Babyface broke off and became one of the biggest superproducer duos in R&B, rivaling the hits of fellow superproducer duo Jimmy Jam & Terry Lewis.

L.A. & ‘Face had their hands in a string of #1 R&B hits in the late '80s and early '90s from artists such as Pebbles (“Girlfriend”), Karyn White (“Superwoman”), The Whispers (“Rock Steady”), Johnny Gill (“My, My, My”) and many more. They were also instrumental in the success of post-New Edition era Bobby Brown as they produced his #1 hits “Don’t Be Cruel,” “Every Little Step,” “On Our Own,” and “Humpin' Around.” They made history with Boyz II Men in 1992 as they wrote and produced “End of the Road,” which spent a record-breaking 14 consecutive weeks atop the pop chart.

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