

In addition, Traci Braxton hosted a radio show on the internet station BLIS.FM and acted in such films as 2018’s “Sinners Wanted” and the upcoming “Chaaw. In March of 2022, Traci passed away following a battle with cancer. Reid and Kenneth “Babyface” Edmonds’ LaFace Records signed Toni as a solo artist - launching a long hit-making career.Īfter the reality show took off, Traci Braxton launched a solo music career with her 2014 solo album “Crash & Burn” whose single, “Last Call,” reached No. MARRIED for over two decades, Kevin Surratt and Traci Braxton share one child together. 'Someone lied and said 'it gets easier.'. Saturday marked Traci's first birthday after she died at the age of 50 on March 12 due to cancer. But the song failed to become a hit, and in 1991, L.A. Tamar Braxton is celebrating her late sister Traci. The show became one of the network’s biggest hits, averaging 1.5 million viewers for the fourth season.Īll five sisters had been signed to Arista Records in 1989 and released a single, “Good Life,” as a fivesome the following year. Braxton's maternal grandfather was also a pastor. Her father, Michael Conrad Braxton Sr., was a Methodist clergyman and power company worker, and her mother, Evelyn Jackson, a native of South Carolina, was a former opera singer and cosmetologist, as well as a pastor. The younger sister of R&B superstar Toni Braxton, Traci Braxton co-starred with Toni and her other sisters - Towanda, Trina and Tamar - on “Braxton Family Values,” a reality series exploring their lives which ran for seven seasons on WE tv from 2011-2020. Braxton was born in Severn, Maryland as the third child of her parents.
