Kip Carmen is a Native American R&B artist from Long Island with ancestry from the Shinnecock Indian Nation. Kip started his career as a musician and songwriter in the mid 1960s, beginning a thirty-plus year career with highlights including recording at Royal Studios in Memphis for Hi Records in the 1970s, collaborating frequently with the great Cornell Dupree (guitarist for King Curtis, Aretha Franklin, Donny Hathaway, Stuff) and James Allen Smith (keyboardist for King Curtis, Robert Palmer, Candi Staton), opening for Albert King, B.B. King, Jerry Lee Lewis, James Cotton, and more.
Watch the story of the recording and release of Kip’s sought-after single “This Island Is Our Home,” his collaborations with Cornell Dupree and James Allen Smith, and why the planned full-length album “Clear the Way” was never released.
Watch the story behind Kip’s first single, his group “The New Frontier,” and the recording of his “That’s Enough For Me” / “Loving in the Morning” single that went on to become a collector’s item.
Check out Kip Carmen’s Musical Journey by Dionisis Dimos (aka “SoulDennis”), an extensive musical biography published on the SoulDennis blog, which took an extraordinary amount of care and effort by Dionisis and is must-reading for anyone looking for more details about Kip’s recordings and path as a musician and band leader
