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Keith Sweat Information
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'Keith Sweat' (born July 22, 1961 in Harlem, New York), is an African American R&B and soul singer. Sweat once worked an ordinary 9-to-5 job for the commodities market in the New York Mercantile Exchange. He sang at nightclubs until he was discovered in 1987. On November 25, 1987, Sweat released his debut album Make It Last Forever, which sold three million copies. The biggest hit from this album was "I Want Her" (#1 R&B/#5 Pop), and the title track from the album was hit #2 on the R&B charts.
Sweat continued to chart fairly well; his sophomore album I'll Give All My Love To You hit #6 on the Billboard 200 chart, and Keep It Comin debuted in the Top 20 of the album chart.
In 1992, Sweat discovered the group Silk, and helped craft their debut album, Lose Control, which hit #7 on the Billboard 200 album chart. The album's single "Freak Me" hit #1 on the Billboard Hot 100 on May 1, 1993.
A little over a year later, Sweat released his fourth album, Get Up On It, in the summer of 1994. He followed with Keith Sweat, his self-titled fifth album, in 1996, which hit #5 on the Billboard 200. The single "Twisted" hit #2 on the Billboard Hot 100, and "Nobody" hit #3. The song "Just A Touch" was also on the album and although it didn't take off and become a well known top 3 hit like the 2 aforementioned songs. "Just A Touch" was a remake of the song "Just a Touch of Love" from the Slave album from 1979 called Just a Touch of Love. So that would mean the people 30 or older at the time may have not cared that much for a remake although a very well done one. But the key demo for this song was likely people under that age. Following that release, he formed the R&B super-group LSG with Gerald Levert and Johnny Gill, and released their self-titled debut in 1997. That album featured the hit "My Body", which became a huge hit single.
His success on the charts started to diminish in 2000, when he released the album Didn't See Me Coming. None of the singles managed to make it to the Top 40. On August 13, 2002, Keith Sweat released his ninth album, Rebirth. Only one single, "One on One", charted on the Billboard Hot 100 (#75) and the R&B charts (#44).
Discography
*Make It Last Forever (1987)
*I'll Give All My Love To You (1990)
*Keep It Comin' (1991)
*Get Up On It (1994)
*Keith Sweat (1996)
*Still In The Game (1998)
*Didn't See Me Coming (2000)
*Rebirth (2002)
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