Toni Braxton To Play Darlene Love For OWN BiopicPosted by Wilson Morales
April 3, 2014
Source: Variety
Grammy Award-winning artist Toni Braxton will star as singer Darlene Love in Oprah Winfrey‘s OWN’s biopic of the famed pop vocalist.
“My Name is Love: The Darlene Love Story” is slated for a December premiere. The film will center around Love’s long career in the music biz, starting out as the key voice behind Phil Spector’s Wall of Sound hits from the 1960s.
OWN: Oprah Winfrey Network’s first scripted telepic is shepherded by the docu filmmaker Morgan Neville, who was behind last year’s “Twenty Feet from Stardom” feature about Love and other well-known backup singers.
Darlene Love is also attached to executive produce, is best known as one of the featured backup singer featured in the Oscar winning hit documentary Twenty Feet From Stardom.
“The fantastic life journey of music great Darlene Love is the perfect choice for our first original scripted movie,” OWN president Sheri Salata. “There are a handful of stories brought to the screen of daring American women who walked through fire and back to make their dreams come true and Darlene is one of the heroes on that list. From her first hit song to her darkest days cleaning houses in Beverly Hills to make ends meet, to the triumphant comeback that made rock and roll history, Darlene is a true living legend who worked with many of the greatest talents in music from Elvis Presley and Tom Jones to Frank Sinatra, Aretha Franklin and Bruce Springsteen.”
Braxton, along with Kenny “Babyface” Edmonds, recently starred in Broadway’s After Midnight. The six-time Grammy-winner was last seen in Lifetime’s Twist of Faith and appeared on the big screen in ‘The Oogieloves in the BIG Balloon Adventure.’
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