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Kamau Kenyatta is an American musician, record producer, arranger, film composer, and jazz educator. He was born in Detroit, Michigan in 1955. He is best known for his work with jazz greats such as Herbie Hancock, Wayne Shorter, and McCoy Tyner. Kenyatta began his musical career as a pianist and composer in the Detroit area. He attended the University of Michigan, where he studied jazz and classical music. After graduating, he moved to Los Angeles and began working as a session musician and arranger. Kenyatta has released several albums as a leader, including "The Source" (1995), "The Journey" (1998), and "The Dream" (2001). He has also composed music for films, including "The Color Purple" (1985) and "The Preacher's Wife" (1996). Kenyatta has been a professor of jazz studies at the University of California, Los Angeles since 2000. He has also served as a visiting professor at the University of Michigan, the University of Southern California, and the University of North Texas. As of 2021, Kamau Kenyatta's net worth is estimated to be roughly $1 million.

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Birthplace Detroit, Michigan, U.S.
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2013

Kenyatta was born in Detroit, Michigan. In 2013, he served as associate producer and arranger for Gregory Porter's Blue Note Records debut album, Liquid Spirit. In February 2014, the recording won a Grammy in the Best Jazz Vocal Album category. As a long-time collaborator with Gregory Porter, he also produced the album Water, which was nominated for a Best Jazz Vocal Album Grammy. In 2016, further releases of his productions included Gregory Porter’s Take Me to the Alley, Ed Motta's Perpetual Gateways, and Steph Johnson's Music Is Art. In February 2017, Kenyatta won a Grammy for his co-production of Take Me to the Alley in the Best Jazz Vocal Album category.

2004

As a film composer, Kenyatta worked with Hubert Laws creating the score for Small Steps, Big Strides, a Fox network documentary detailing the history of African-American film. Kenyatta also composed the soundtrack for The Dawn at My Back, an interactive memoir that won the Online Film Festival Jury Award for Short Filmmaking New Forms at the 2004 Sundance Film Festival. In 2015, Kenyatta scored the film Spirits of Rebellion, by director Zeinabu irene Davis. After the international success of Liquid Spirit in 2016, he scored the Gregory Porter biopic, Don't Forget Your Music. The film was released in the UK in the fall of 2016.

1999

As an educator, Kamau has worked from 1999 to the present at UCSD.

1955

Kamau Kenyatta (born June 27, 1955) is an American musician, record producer, arranger, film composer and jazz educator. He is a lecturer of music at the University of California, San Diego. He was given the Barbara J. and Paul D. Saltman Distinguished Teaching Award at UCSD in May 2009.