Johnny Kemp
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Music · MusicBrainz
- Type
- Person
- Gender
- Male
- Origin
- Bahamas
- Active from
- 1959-08-02
- Active to
- 2015-04-16
Discography
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- 36,425
- Total plays
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Johnny Kemp was an R&B and dance music singer and dancer born in Nassau, Bahamas. According to the Just Got Paid Songfacts, he moved to New York as a teenager in 1979 to front a group called Kinky Fox. In the '80s, he became part of the club singer scene, where he met Teddy Riley. He hit #10 on the Hot 100 in 1988 with the Riley-produced "Just Got Paid." The song also went to #1 on the Hot Dance Music/Club Play chart. His only other Hot 100 entry was its follow-up, "Birthday Suit," which climbe
Recent publications · Crossref
5 total works indexed
- Global, regional, and national incidence, prevalence, and years lived with disability for 354 diseases and injuries for 195 countries and territories, 1990–2017: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2017
· 2018 · cited 10,995x
- Global, regional, and national age-sex-specific mortality for 282 causes of death in 195 countries and territories, 1980–2017: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2017
· 2018 · cited 6,186x
- Global, regional, and national incidence, prevalence, and years lived with disability for 310 diseases and injuries, 1990–2015: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2015
· 2016 · cited 5,699x
- Global, regional, and national life expectancy, all-cause mortality, and cause-specific mortality for 249 causes of death, 1980–2015: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2015
· 2016 · cited 5,082x
- Global, regional, and national incidence, prevalence, and years lived with disability for 301 acute and chronic diseases and injuries in 188 countries, 1990–2013: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2013
· 2015 · cited 4,997x
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Given name
- Johnny
- Family name
- Kemp
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- The Bahamas
- Place of birth
- Nassau
- Place of death
- Montego Bay
- Occupation
- record producer
- Educated at
- Lee Strasberg Theatre and Film Institute
- Genre
- contemporary R&B
- Record label
- Columbia Records
- Official website
- myspace.com/johnnykempmusic
- Number of children
- 2
- Voice type
- tenor
Show 4 more facts
- date of birth
- 1959-08-02
- date of death
- 2015-04-16
- manner of death
- accidental death
- start of work period
- 1979-00-00
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