Kenneth Kamal Scott

Kenneth Kamal Scott (3 March 1940 – 1 February 2015) was an American singer, dancer and actor, whose sixty-five-year career had included numerous achievements in a diverse array of genres and settings, including Broadway, jazz, pop, opera, ballet and modern dance.^[1]

Scott began his performance career as a singer at age seven, and by the age of eleven began performing at the

Scott was diagnosed with liver cancer in July 2014 and died on February 1, 2015.[8]

Family

Scott comes from a musical family.^[9] His uncle, Irving Ashby, was a jazz guitarist who performed with the Nat King Cole Trio. His mother, Phyllis Ashby, performed as a big band vocalist, and his father, Leslie Scott, was a successful baritone who played Porgy in the national and international production of Porgy and Bess in 1953 and later played Jake in the 1959 film version.^[10] Scott has two sons by his first wife, Myrna White: Kenneth and Jonathan, who was a noted hip-hop artist under the name Dred Scott,^[11] and who was married to jazz singer Adriana Evans.

Broadway and theater credits

Scott had performed in numerous