Keith Sterling
title: "Keith Sterling" type: doc version: 1 created: 2026-02-28 author: "Wikipedia contributors" status: active scope: public tags: ["1952-births", "living-people", "musicians-from-kingston,-jamaica", "jamaican-session-musicians", "21st-century-jamaican-male-musicians", "jamaican-reggae-musicians", "jamaican-pianists", "the-wailers-members", "the-upsetters-members", "the-aggrovators-members"] topic_path: "arts" source: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Keith_Sterling" license: "CC BY-SA 4.0" wikipedia_page_id: 0 wikipedia_revision_id: 0
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| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| name | Keith Sterling |
| image | KeithSterling1979.png |
| birth_name | Keith Sterling-McLeod |
| alias | Keith Sterling |
| birth_date | January 1952 |
| origin | Kingston, Jamaica |
| instrument | Keyboard, synthesizer, piano, organ |
| genre | Reggae |
| occupation | Musician |
| years_active | 1970s–present |
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| name = Keith Sterling | image = KeithSterling1979.png | caption = | birth_name = Keith Sterling-McLeod | alias = Keith Sterling | birth_place = | birth_date = January 1952 | death_date = | origin = Kingston, Jamaica | instrument = Keyboard, synthesizer, piano, organ | genre = Reggae | occupation = Musician | years_active = 1970s–present | label = | website = Keith Sterling (born Keith Sterling-McLeod, January 1952, Kingston, Jamaica) is a piano and keyboard player.
Biography
Keith Sterling is a well-respected Jamaican session musician, having played in various session/backing bands including The Upsetters, The Aggrovators, Soul Syndicate, The Boris Gardiner Happening, Word, Sound and Power, Lloyd Parks' We The People Band, and Sly and Robbie's Taxi Gang. He is currently a member of The Wailers Band.
His older brothers Lester and Roy are also musicians, Lester having played saxophone with The Skatalites and Roy trumpet with Lynn Taitt and the Jets.
References
References
- Larkin, Colin (2006) ''The Encyclopedia of Popular Music'', 4th edn., OUP USA, {{ISBN. 978-0-19-531373-4, p. 743
- Moskowitz, David V. (2006) ''Caribbean Popular Music: an Encyclopedia of Reggae, Mento, Ska, Rock Steady, and Dancehall'', Greenwood Press, {{ISBN. 978-0-313-33158-9, p. 58, 320
- Katz, David (2006) ''People Funny Boy'', Omnibus, {{ISBN. 978-1-84609-443-9, p. 194, 241–2
- Boehm, Mike (1988) "Brown's Disarming Reggae: Gentle Voice for Have-Nots", ''[[Los Angeles Times]]'', 5 October 1988, p. 8
- "[http://www.vaildaily.com/article/20070615/AE/70615013 The Wailers kick off this year’s Hot Summer Nights]", ''Vail Daily'', 15 June 2007, retrieved 2012-02-26
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