Toni Braxton declares first solo album in eight years, releases contemporary single

Toni Braxton is prepared to un-ruin her followers’ hearts!

The R&B singer is celebrating the 25th anniversary of her self-titled debut album by releasing her first solo album in eight years. On Monday, Braxton launched plans for Sex and Cigarettes, alongside with her ninth studio album space for a March 23 open by Def Jam.

Braxton’s be conscious-up to her and Babyface’s Grammy Award-winning collaboration album Love, Marriage & Divorce will embody the beforehand launched “Deadwood,” a duet with Colbie Caillat, and the newly launched single “Long As I Stay,” which you would also hear to below. No be conscious if “Heart Away,” Braxton’s contemporary tune with rumored boyfriend Birdman shall be on the contemporary album.

This spring, the singer is additionally heading out for a North American tour despite her ongoing fight with lupus. “I be pleased so blessed for the reason that doctors told me I would never be ready to manufacture, I would never be ready to plug back and forth or the leisure, but, , total varied thought for me,” she goal now not too long within the past told PEOPLE.