Keith Martin (musician)
| Keith Martin | |
|---|---|
| Birth name | Keith Eric Martin |
| Born |
September 22, 1966 Washington, D.C., United States |
| Genres | Rhythm and blues |
| Occupation(s) | Singer-songwriter, producer |
| Instruments | Vocals, keyboards, bass guitar, drums, percussion |
| Years active | 1995–present |
| Labels | Sony, Ruffhouse, Orchard, EMI, Galaxy, Rhyme Scene |
Keith Eric Martin (born September 22, 1966, Washington, D.C.) is an American R&B singer-songwriter and record producer, currently living in Indonesia. Martin is best known for writing and singing romantic love songs.
Martin was the second son of three children in Washington, D.C. Growing up, he listened to the Jackson five,music from Prince and the Production of Jimmy Jam and Terry Lewis, and Stevie Wonder. He was also influenced by jazz and gospel music. He started playing piano, Bass guitar and drums and singing when he was 10, and started writing his own music when he was aged nineteen.
Martin was a force among local artists in the late 1980s,growing up with neighborhood close friends Johnny Gill and Stacy Lattisaw and super bassist Oteil Burbridge and Kenny Lattimore. He was a part of the group Masqerade, which included the twins Art and Scott Powell, Sharif Walters and D'Extra Wiley, and Randy Gill, who later became a member of the 1990s new jack R&B group II D Extreme.
Con Funk Shun founder and drummer Louis A. McCall, Sr. saw Martin, and signed him to his Gaithersburg, MD artist management company owned by him and his wife Linda Lou McCall, a music business consultant and songwriter. Linda Lou McCall was hired by MC Hammer in 1990 to help set up his corporate operations and administration in Oakland, California. When she became Vice President of Hammer's artist management company, she and her husband arranged for Martin to come to California, and got him on as part of MC Hammer's Please Hammer, Don't Hurt 'Em and Too Legit to Quit world tours.
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