Keith Whiting the founder of Love & Lyrics is an award winning producer and writer. His career has encompassed the roles of musician, recording engineer, record producer, playwright, author, poet, songwriter, record company executive, magazine founder, photographer, sound designer and entrepreneur. As a mixer of musical hybrids, he created the Juno nominated group Kaleefah, which fused African, South American and western music, and backed Celine Dion on a Juno performance. He was also the co-founder of the Gospel Project an eighteen-voice choir and group that appeared on CBC radio and performed with Billy Preston.
Starting out as a drummer at the age of 7, he played his first paying gig at the age of 12. At 15 he joined the band Rare Amber with which he toured England and Germany before recording their critically acclaimed self-titled album.
Leaving the band he moved into engineering at Phillips Studio in London where He engineered albums for ELO, Dusty Springfield, Cleo Laine, The Move, Ben Webster, Scott Walker, Rod McKuen and many others.
After 2 years at Phillips he moved to Decca Records where he refined his production skills. He then spent 2 months in Nigeria teaching engineering, and producing the “Holy Grail of Afro-Funk Music” album, “Blo Step 3”.
Moving to Canada, his productions include the gold awarded album “Black Noise” by the band FM which was recognized by Rolling Stone Magazine as one of the top 50 progressive rock albums of all time. Other albums followed by: Marc Jordan, Ken Tobias, Aaron Davis, Doug Riley, Pat Labarbara, Dianne Heatherington, Danny Weis, Jackie Richardson, Professor Longhair, and many leading jazz Artists. He also produced albums of classical music with Andrew Davis, Julius Baker, Jeanne Baxtresser, The Canadian Brass, The Bowkun Trio, and Valerie Tryon.
As senior music producer for CBC radio he worked with many great international artists including: Ella Fitzgerald, Sarah Vaughan, Oscar Peterson, Jaco Pastorius, Keith Jarrett, Mel Torme, Pat Metheny, John Scofield, Roberta Flack, The Temptations, Donovan, Robert Palmer, and many others.
He is the founder of imaJJine, a contemporary jazz collective, featuring many of Canada’s top musicians and singers. The album “Love Songs & Lullabies” for which Keith wrote or co-wrote all the songs, currently has over 2 million Spotify streams.
Along with Khadija, and Walter Borden he wrote and created the live theatrical spectacular “I Will Rise In Love”
When Keith is not creating he has spent his time running the Toronto Marathon, earning his second-degree black belt in Karate, crewing on a racing yacht, and playing tennis. He is currently learning to scuba dive and teaching himself to play the bagpipes.