KENNETH CROUCH
Genres: Post Bop, Pop, Art Song, Folk, Jazz Related Improv, Composition • United States

Keyboardist and musical director Kenneth Crouch has worked with such artists as Lenny Kravitz, Eric Clapton, Destiny's Child, Lauryn Hill, Brandy, and Marc Anthony. Blessed with talent and born into a musical family (his uncle is gospel legend Andrae Crouch), it seems Crouch was destined for a career in music. But it almost didn't happen that way. "When I was a kid, my mother asked if I wanted piano lessons," Kenneth recalls. "She told me years later that I took lessons for about a year, and the piano teacher told her I wasn't catching on! But I kept at it, and somehow I did catch on in the next few months." For the young Kenneth, his uncle Andrae was a big influence. "Growing up in a church household, we weren't able to listen to secular music," he says. "So hearing my uncle was like hearing Michael Jackson or Sly Stone or Earth read more...