Biography
Kenny Lattimore built a three-decade career around understated, romantic R&B ballads. His self-titled 1996 debut for Columbia reached gold status behind the Top 20 R&B/hip-hop singles “Never Too Busy” and “For You,” the latter earning a Grammy nomination. Subsequent releases that reached the upper tier of the R&B/hip-hop album chart include the 2003 duet project Things That Lovers Do with Chanté Moore, Timeless in 2008, and Anatomy of a Love Song in 2015, while later independent efforts brought Vulnerable in 2017 and Here to Stay in 2021.
Born and raised in Washington, D.C., Lattimore came from a musical household. He captured talent-show prizes at junior high before high school, where he performed everything from classical pieces to R&B material. Although he entered nearby Howard University to study architecture and city planning, he continued singing and joined the vocal group Maniquin as a freshman. That ensemble landed a deal with Epic in 1987 and issued an album two years later that featured production by Charlie Wilson and Ronnie Wilson of the Gap Band along with Charlie Singleton of Cameo. After touring with Maniquin for a year, Lattimore departed to write songs for Glenn Jones and Jon Lucien; he also contributed vocals to a Dem Twinzz demo that drew major-label attention, yet he chose to pursue a solo path and soon secured a Columbia contract on the strength of his own demo.
The 1996 debut, shaped by producers Kenneth and Keith Crouch, Kipper Jones, and Dave Hall among others, contained six tracks co-written by Lattimore. Bolstered by the number 19 R&B/hip-hop single “Never Too Busy” and the Grammy-nominated number six R&B/hip-hop single “For You,” the album sold steadily and eventually earned RIAA gold certification. On the 1998 follow-up From the Soul of Man he supplied additional originals plus several covers, among them a sensual reading of “While My Guitar Gently Weeps.” Moving to Arista, he issued Weekend in 2001 and then joined his then-wife Chanté Moore for the 2003 Top Five R&B/hip-hop album Things That Lovers Do, a collection of covers and two originals released jointly on LaFace and Verity. The 2006 double album Uncovered/Covered, issued on those same imprints, again mixed interpretations with new songs while shifting between secular love themes and contemporary gospel.
Lattimore resumed solo work on Verve with the all-covers album Timeless in 2008, drawing material from Stevie Wonder, the Beatles, Jeff Buckley, and Eddie Floyd. Following a five-year recording hiatus that included his divorce from Moore, he resurfaced in 2013 with the originals-focused Back 2 Cool. The project received limited initial exposure before being expanded into the more widely distributed 2015 set Anatomy of a Love Song, which retained all ten tracks and added four new ones. After completing the Motown Gospel seasonal release A Kenny Lattimore Christmas, he moved to independent status for Vulnerable in 2017. He later aligned with the SoNo label and delivered Here to Stay in 2021.
Born and raised in Washington, D.C., Lattimore came from a musical household. He captured talent-show prizes at junior high before high school, where he performed everything from classical pieces to R&B material. Although he entered nearby Howard University to study architecture and city planning, he continued singing and joined the vocal group Maniquin as a freshman. That ensemble landed a deal with Epic in 1987 and issued an album two years later that featured production by Charlie Wilson and Ronnie Wilson of the Gap Band along with Charlie Singleton of Cameo. After touring with Maniquin for a year, Lattimore departed to write songs for Glenn Jones and Jon Lucien; he also contributed vocals to a Dem Twinzz demo that drew major-label attention, yet he chose to pursue a solo path and soon secured a Columbia contract on the strength of his own demo.
The 1996 debut, shaped by producers Kenneth and Keith Crouch, Kipper Jones, and Dave Hall among others, contained six tracks co-written by Lattimore. Bolstered by the number 19 R&B/hip-hop single “Never Too Busy” and the Grammy-nominated number six R&B/hip-hop single “For You,” the album sold steadily and eventually earned RIAA gold certification. On the 1998 follow-up From the Soul of Man he supplied additional originals plus several covers, among them a sensual reading of “While My Guitar Gently Weeps.” Moving to Arista, he issued Weekend in 2001 and then joined his then-wife Chanté Moore for the 2003 Top Five R&B/hip-hop album Things That Lovers Do, a collection of covers and two originals released jointly on LaFace and Verity. The 2006 double album Uncovered/Covered, issued on those same imprints, again mixed interpretations with new songs while shifting between secular love themes and contemporary gospel.
Lattimore resumed solo work on Verve with the all-covers album Timeless in 2008, drawing material from Stevie Wonder, the Beatles, Jeff Buckley, and Eddie Floyd. Following a five-year recording hiatus that included his divorce from Moore, he resurfaced in 2013 with the originals-focused Back 2 Cool. The project received limited initial exposure before being expanded into the more widely distributed 2015 set Anatomy of a Love Song, which retained all ten tracks and added four new ones. After completing the Motown Gospel seasonal release A Kenny Lattimore Christmas, he moved to independent status for Vulnerable in 2017. He later aligned with the SoNo label and delivered Here to Stay in 2021.
Albums
Vulnerable
2017
A Kenny Lattimore Christmas
2016
Anatomy Of A Love Song
2015
Timeless
2008
Figure It Out
2006
Uncovered/Covered
2006
Days Like This: The Best Of Kenny Lattimore
2004
Things That Lovers Do
2002
Weekend
2001
From The Soul Of Man
1998
Kenny Lattimore
1996
Singles
