Kem: From the bottom of the social heap to the top of the Billboard music charts. You don’t know whether to write a book about him, make a movie on his life or just simply listen to bob to his ballads with your boo. It has to be an indescribable feeling for a kid raised in Motown to be signed by the very hometown label that changed the faced of music forever. So Kem’s life is both a cautionary tale and an inspiring rags-to-riches story of how he took his God-inspired talents to peel himself off the sidewalk of life, bandage up his gaping emotional wounds, dust himself off and ride the soaring musical notes into the penthouse suites of America.
Can’t be anything but God when you are sleeping outside one night, waiting tables in Detroit another night, and you independently release Kemistry, which sold 10,000 copies on the rugged, judgmental terrain of Southeast Michigan. Kem was the pre-determined vessel to get the message of love out and he has done so with heart-wrenching, tear-inducing fashion via “Love Calls” and “I Can’t Stop Loving You” after the spirit of the Motown greats steered Universal Motown’s lighthouse towards the savant with the killer piano game. Those who’ve heard Kem have gotten the message, but more people need to hear it and ingest it into their spirit.
