Kelton Cooper is an American guitarist, singer, songwriter and producer. He has recorded with artists including Mariah Carey, Jody Watley and Kool & The Gang and has been active in the Garage House music scene since the 1980s. He worked at Ace Beat Records, a US Funky House, Gospel and Garage label, and its sublabel, Ace Beat Studio. A native of Jamaica, he currently resides in Orange, NJ.
BLUES PEOPLE is a NY/NJ blues band featuring...
KELTON COOPER (vocals/guitar), MIKE GRIOT (bass), VICTOR BURKS (vocals/keys) and GENE LAKE (drums). Early comparisons to the Meters, Luther Allison, Keb Mo' and even Earth Wind & Fire are starting to roll in... and the band is currently in the studio recording their much-anticipated 2022 debut album "The Skin I'm In".
Blues People: Inspired by Amiri Baraka's (LeRoi Jones) seminal study of Afro-American music, Blues People musically explores the effects of the blues on modern American culture on many different levels... and the belief that the band's "Neo-Blues" moniker is a modern chronicle of four real-life blues brothers living in THIS time in America... while surviving the NY/NJ-Metro urban landscape.