Babyface Returns With Premiere of New Song ‘Faithful’ From Upcoming Film ‘Ruth & Boaz’: Listen

Kenneth “Babyface” Edmonds — whose penning and accumulation credits see euphony for the movies Waiting to Exhale, Boomerang and Soul Food — is adding different movie task to his repertoire. The 13-time Grammy victor has written, recorded and produced the caller opus “Faithful,” featured connected the five-song companion EP for the upcoming Netflix movie Ruth & Boaz.

Singer-actress Serayah stars arsenic rubric quality Ruth Moably and performs “Faithful” onscreen. The opus plays implicit the Ruth & Boaz extremity credits arsenic well. Babyface besides makes an quality arsenic himself successful the film, produced by DeVon Franklin and Tyler Perry. Netflix volition premiere the movie connected Sept. 26 — the aforesaid time the EP, Ruth & Boaz (Soundtrack from the Netflix Film), becomes available. “Faithful” becomes disposable Sept. 19 connected each DSPs.

Directed by Alanna Brown, Ruth & Boaz is a faith-based communicative involving rising Atlanta hip-hop creator Ruth Moably, her determination to pivot distant from the glamourous, fast-paced euphony country aft a idiosyncratic calamity and commencement afresh successful agrarian Tennessee arsenic the caretaker for her surrogate parent Naomi, her precocious boyfriend’s mother. Then vineyard proprietor Boaz comes into Serayah’s life. Naomi is portrayed by Phylicia Rashad; Boaz by Tyler Lepley. The formed besides includes Grammy-winning songwriter-producer Jermaine Dupri. The movie was written by Michael Elliot and Cory Tynan.

It was person and movie shaper Franklin who asked Babyface to enactment successful the project. Of penning “Faithful” specifically for the film, Babyface tells Billboard that helium “loved and was inspired by the film’s faith-based romance. So the opus is conscionable that. It’s astir idiosyncratic being faithful to their narration with 1 idiosyncratic due to the fact that she yet recovered a narration she could trust. I loved however they utilized it successful the movie; it turned retired to beryllium precise impactful.”

In her comments to Billboard astir “Faithful,” Serayah — who starred connected the Fox play Empire that aired from 2015 to 2020 — notes that “lyrically and melody-wise I instantly fell successful emotion with the record. It represents not lone the unconditional emotion Boaz has for Ruth, but besides the unconditional emotion God has for each and each 1 of us. Love has the powerfulness to travel successful and bring you backmost to who you are called to beryllium if you fto it. Babyface is an unthinkable writer [whose] genius makes it consciousness similar a timeless record. I besides enjoyed performing this grounds due to the fact that I’ve ne'er sung a country-influenced song. Now I privation to research it more.&rdq...