Keith Sweat Profile
Artist Name: Keith Sweat
Real Name: Keith Crier
Birth Date: July 22nd, 1961
Birth Place: Harlem, New York
Genre(s): R&B, New jack swing
Produced For: Men At Large, Immature, Dru Hill, Isley Brothers
Nationality: American
Debut Album: Make It Last Forever (November 25th, 1987)
Breakthrough Single: "I Want Her" (1987)
Got His Start:
Member of a well known Harlem band called "Jamilah" in 1975.
Singing in night clubs (New York) before being offered a recording contract with Elektra Records in 1987
Did You Know:
Discovered the groups Silk and Kut Klose
Worked for the commodities market in the New York Mercantile Exchange
Keith Sweat also formed the R&B supergroup LSG with Gerald Levert and Johnny Gill, in 1997