TERRE HAUTE — Grammy Award-winning R&B; artist Babyface will headline a homecoming concert on Oct. 24 at Indiana State University’s Hulman Center.
The show begins at 7 p.m. with opening act After 7.
The objective not only with this concert but with others in the future is to re-establish a tradition of staging a homecoming show every year, said Jennifer Cook, Hulman Center business manager.
Tickets go on sale at 10 a.m. Friday. Prices for general public tickets are $51, $41, $31 and $21. ISU students with valid IDs can purchase tickets at the Hulman Center box office for $36, $26, $21 and $11. Tickets are on sale at the box office from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. Monday through Friday, and are available through TicketMaster.
“We need to really support the show to prove that Terre Haute can be a viable concert showplace,” Cook said Monday morning.
Indianapolis native Kenneth “Babyface” Edmonds works with many successful performers in contemporary music. “I’m Your Baby Tonight,” produced for Whitney Houston, was his first No. 1 hit in the United States. He also wrote and produced Boyz II Men’s “End of the Road” and “I’ll Make Love To You”; co-wrote, co-produced and provided backing vocals on Madonna’s 1995 hit “Take a Bow”; and shared billing with Eric Clapton on the chart-topping Grammy winner “Change the World” from the Phenomenon soundtrack.
Edmonds has produced and written music for many artists, including Beyoncé, Diana Ross, Sheena Easton, Toni Braxton, Michael Jackson, Paula Abdul, Pebbles, Tevin Campbell, Bobby Brown, Whitney Houston, Brandy, Mary J. Blige, Tamia, Janet Jackson, Céline Dion, Mariah Carey, Vanessa L. Williams, En Vogue, Eric Clapton, Madonna, Aretha Franklin and Phil Collins. He received consecutive Grammy Awards for Producer of the Year in 1995 through 1997.
The group After 7 was co-founded in 1988 by two of Edmonds’ brothers. The group split up in 1995, but reunite occasionally on musical projects and for concerts. They have charted seven Top 10 R&B; hits, including the No. 1 singles “Ready or Not” and “Can’t Stop.”
