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Keith Douglas Sweat (born July 22, 1961) is an American R&B and soul, singer-songwriter, record producer, actor, radio personality, and an innovator of new jack swing.
Early life
Keith Sweat was born in Harlem, New York to Juanita Thompson, a hairdresser, and Charles Sweat (died 1973), a factory worker. Juanita raised their five children alone after Charles Sweat's death. He worked as a night stock boy at Macy's and then a mailroom clerk at Paine Webber. In just four years he worked his way up to a lucrative brokerage assistant job on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange. Sweat worked as a supervisor for the New York Mercantile Exchange.
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