WFC Spotlight || Tracey Edmonds x Beauty & Brains Pt.1

Womenforchange.info will start to do 'Spotlight' features, shining the light on inspirational women from all walks of life. Leaving out the drama and focusing on their outstanding achievements. Some will be well known, some not so much but we hope to leave you thinking 'I didn't know she did that' and hope to inspire you into action.

We shine the Women For Change Spotlight on Tracey Edmonds:

Tracey E. Edmonds, a 15-year veteran of the entertainment industry, has established herself as an award-winning producer, savvy business mogul and accomplished studio executive. She has created and produced groundbreaking projects for television, music and film both independently and with major studios.  She currently serves as the CEO of her own production company, Edmonds Entertainment and COO and President of Our Stories Films where she oversees the development and production of projects for urban audiences.

Edmonds executive produced Good Luck Chuck for Lionsgate starring Dane Cook and Jessica Alba, released September 21, 2007.  Her next film, the romantic comedy Chilled in Miami starring Renee Zellweger and Harry Connick Jr.

In her personal life Tracey divorced Kenneth Babyface Edmonds in 2005 and later started to date Eddie Murphy (Married & soon after cancelled which lasted for 14 days)

• New in Town (2009)
• Good Luck Chuck (2007)
• Who's Your Caddy? (2007)
• DMX: Soul Of A Man (2006)
• Keyshia Cole: The Way It Is (2006- Present)
• Robbin Hoodz (2006) (announced) (executive producer)
• Lil Kim: Countdown to Lockdown (2006) TV Series (executive producer)
• College Hill (2004) TV Series (executive producer)
• Maniac Magee (2003) (TV) (executive producer)
• Josie and the Pussycats (2001)
• Soul Food: The Series (2000 - 2004) (executive producer)
• Punks (2000)
• Light It Up (1999)
• Soul Food (1997)
• Hav Plenty (1997) (executive producer)

Edmonds was born Tracey McQuarn in the late 1960s, and grew up in California. A bright youngster, she enrolled at Stanford University at the age of 16. There she designed her own major, psycho-biology, that combined studies in the fields of neurobiology and psychology. After graduating in 1987, Edmonds went into the real estate business after earning her license. During the late 1980s she was a broker and started up her own mortgage company and real estate office in the California city of Newport Beach. In 1990, she moved her offices to Los Angeles.

When Tracey met Kenny

It was in Los Angeles that she met Kenneth "Babyface" Edmonds, a well-known songwriter, record producer, and co-founder of LaFace Records. At the time, he was a hot new recording star, and she tried out for a spot in one of his videos. She was cast, but came down with chicken pox and had to bow out. A few months later, she and her mother were driving down Santa Monica Boulevard, and spotted Edmonds exiting a recording studio. Her mother pulled the car over--despite her daughter's pleas, since she felt less than glamorous that day--to give him her daughter's business card. He called the next day, and they began dating, though the singer made Atlanta his base at the time. On a jaunt to Paris, he proposed to her. "I felt like she was good for me," Edmonds told Ebony's Laura B. Randolph. "She pushed me in ways I needed to be pushed. She encouraged me to try new things, things I'd never done before."

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