Name: KEITH WASHINGTON
Start: 2022-01-26T20:00:00-08:00
Location: Yoshi's Oakland

KEITH WASHINGTON

Yoshi's Oakland

Yoshi's Oakland Presents Keith Washington

Keith Douglas Washington (born November 15, 1960) is an American R&amp;B vocalist from Detroit who recorded the hit single &quot;Kissing You&quot; in 1991. The song was also used as background music for the ABC television soap opera General Hospital. &quot;Kissing You&quot; was nominated for a Grammy Award for Best R&amp;B Vocal Performance Male and won a 1992 Soul Train Music Award for Best R&amp;B/Soul Single – Male. The song also topped the Billboard Hot R&amp;B/Hip-Hop Songs chart for one week. Washington is best known for his debut album Make Time for Love.Washington recorded a duet with Kylie Minogue, their co-composition &quot;If You Were with Me Now&quot; in 1991 (on PWL Records) which reached number 4 in the UK Singles Chart and number 23 in Minogue&#x27;s native Australia.Washington branched out in a few acting roles. He starred as himself on the series Martin in an episode called &quot;A Woman with a Past&quot; singing a duet with Tisha Campbell-Martin entitled &quot;The Closer I Get to You&quot; a classic ballad performed and made famous in 1978 by Roberta Flack and Donny Hathaway. In addition, Keith had a brief role in the TV soap opera General Hospital as Keith Jasper. He also had a brief role in John Singleton&#x27;s Poetic Justice, starring Janet Jackson, as a hairdresser named Dexter.Washington&#x27;s first marriage to Marsha Jenkins ended in divorce and resulted in her writing a tell-all book titled The Other Side of Through, which is a fictional account based on Jenkins&#x27; marriage to Washington and her experiences with the singer&#x27;s marital infidelities. In June 2009, Washington married his longtime girlfriend, Stephanie Grimes, who is general sales manager for WGPR-FM 107.5 in Detroit. He also revealed his plans to release a new album. Washington has since branched out into radio himself, as he now hosts the nighttime &quot;Slow Jams&quot; show &quot;Kisses After Dark&quot; on Detroit radio station WDMK-FM 105.9 (Kiss-FM).Presented by Mark T. Elliott &amp; The A-List Musiq Circle Your Bay Area&#x27;s Who&#x27;s Who Entertainment Network.

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