Babyface chases $8 million for custom Bel-Air mansion

Kenneth Edmonds, the Grammy-winning producer higher often known as Babyface, is asking $8 million for his Bel-Air residence of almost twenty years.

That’s almost double the $4.1 million he paid for the property in 2004, data present. The home has modified dramatically over time, as Edmonds added customized skylights and a handful of facilities together with a fitness center, music studio, movie show and brick wine cellar.

It sits on half an acre in Bel-Air Crest, a guard-gated enclave with roughly 200 properties. Edmonds’ place covers greater than 7,500 sq. ft and opens by way of a pair of vintage carved wood doorways.

Inside, a grand two-story entry wrapped in wrought iron and columns units a dramatic tone. It branches off to a proper eating room, chef’s kitchen, household room and black-and-white lounge with a moist bar.

An elevator navigates the three-story ground plan, ascending to a major suite with a lounge and spa tub. The highest stage additionally holds a wraparound terrace, which overlooks a leafy again patio with an outside kitchen and waterfall-fed swimming pool.

Noting the neighborhood’s exclusivity and the home’s scale, itemizing agent Tomer Fridman of Compass referred to as it an “extraordinarily elite product for the market.”

Babyface has launched eight studio albums because the Nineteen Eighties, most not too long ago 2015’s “Return of the Tender Lover.” As a producer, the 63-year-old has racked up 12 Grammy Awards and collaborated with scores of R&B artists together with Bobby Brown, Whitney Houston, Toni Braxton, TLC and Usher.