Kele LeRoc

Kele was born to Jamaican parents in London’s East End in 1978.

She started singing when she was only 3 and had a huge underground hit in 1995 with ‘Let Me Know’, and then signed to First Avenue Management. Her album, ‘Everybody’s Somebody’ was released in the UK in March 1999 and she has worked with producers such as Rhett Lawrence (Mariah Carey, Monica, Eternal), Harvey Mason (Brandy and Chante Moore) and Vibetribe (DAS EFX and N’Dea Davenport). Kele co-wrote the album.

Released when she was 21, Forest Gate-born Kele Le Roc’s debut album is a mature and stylistically varied release, the first single from which, the extremely hummable “Little Bit Of Lovin’”, went straight into the UK Top Ten and lingered in the charts for some time. Although she’s London-based, the album was recorded in California with several high-profile producers including Rhett Lawrence (Mariah Carey) and Harvey Mason (Brandy), while Coolio crops up with a humorous intervention on the disco-tinged “Just Think About You”.

Although “Everybody’s Somebody” bears much of the polish of American R&B, there’s an excitement, energy and sassiness to it, coupled with a most confident vocal performance.

We’ve got fond memories of Kele Le Roc. We provided her with her first cover piece when we covered UK R&B for DJ in the summer of 1996. Then a 20 year old, she had been creating a buzz with her first single, the independently released, Best Kept Secret produced, ‘Let Me Know’.