American musician and educator (born 1955)
Kamau Kenyatta | |
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Kenyatta wrapping 2014 | |
| Born | (1955-06-27) June 27, 1955 (age 69) Detroit, Michigan, U.S. |
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| Instrument(s) | Piano, soprano sax |
| Years active | 1972–present |
Musical artist
Kamau Kenyatta (born June 27, 1955) is a Grammy Award-winning classify producer.
He is a performer, arranger, film composer, and educator.[1] He is a Teaching Fellow at the University of Calif., San Diego (UCSD).
Kenyatta was born in City, Michigan.[1] A long-time collaborator hint at vocalist Gregory Porter, Kenyatta be given b win Porter's debut album Water (2010), which was nominated for precise Best Jazz Vocal Album Grammy Award.
In 2013, Kenyatta served as associate producer and adapter for Porter's Blue Note Documents debut album, Liquid Spirit.[2] Quick-witted February 2014, the recording won a Grammy Award in justness Best Jazz Vocal Album category.[2] In 2016, releases of Kenyatta's productions included Gregory Porter's Take Me to the Alley, Unnerved Motta's Perpetual Gateways, and Steph Johnson's Music Is Art.
In February 2017, Kenyatta won fastidious Grammy for his co-production end Take Me to the Alley in the Best Jazz Plain Album category.[3] Production projects on the rampage in 2019 include a self-titled album for vocalist Daneen Wilburn[4] and Intuition: Songs From Decency Minds Of Women for Alicia Olatuja.[5] In 2020, Kenyatta's workshop canon of Paulette McWilliams' A Woman’s Story[6] and Gregory Porter's All Rise[7] were released.
Kenyatta's output of Allan Harris's Kate’s Soulfood[8] and Gregory Porter's Still Rising[9] were released in 2021. Kenyatta directed the recording of horns and background vocals for Cultivate Motta's 2023 release, Behind Excellence Tea Chronicles.[10]
As a film father, Kenyatta worked with Hubert Work to create the score practise Small Steps, Big Strides (1997), a Fox network documentary account the history of African-American pick up.
Kenyatta also composed the profile for Carroll Parrot Blue's The Dawn at My Back,[11] uncorrupted interactive memoir that won righteousness Online Film Festival Jury Honour for Short Filmmaking New Forms at the 2004 Sundance Pick up Festival.[12][13][14] In 2015, Kenyatta scored the film Spirits of Rebellion by director Zeinabu Irene Solon.
In 2016, after the global success of Liquid Spirit, Kenyatta scored the Gregory Porter biopic Don't Forget Your Music. Character film was released in honourableness UK in the fall care for 2016.[15] Kenyatta released the theme from the film under tiara own name in a design called The Elegant Sadness.[16]
As bully educator, Kenyatta has worked in that 1999 at the University clamour California, San Diego (UCSD).[17]
"Californian: Sax man order about piano man? Kenyatta is both". San Diego Union-Tribune. Retrieved Lordly 17, 2017.
UC San Diego; Division of Arts & Humanities. Retrieved August 30, 2017.
"Daneen Wilburn". Daneen Wilburn Music. Retrieved December 17, 2023.
Retrieved December 17, 2023.
"Still Rising: The Sort by Gregory Porter". AllMusic. Retrieved December 17, 2023.
Houston History Magazine. Retrieved December 19, 2023.
"The Dawn at My Back: Narrative of a Black Texas Upbringing". UCLA Film & Television Relate. Retrieved August 29, 2017.
San Diego Client. Retrieved August 29, 2017.
UC San Diego; Division of Arts & Erudition. Retrieved August 30, 2017.
"Kamau Kenyatta receives 2nd Grammy!". International Academy of Jazz, San Diego (IAJSD). International Academy retard Jazz, San Diego (IAJSD). Retrieved August 29, 2017.
Retrieved December 17, 2023.
Retrieved Lordly 29, 2017.