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Kenyatta was born in Detroit, Michigan. In 2013, he served as associate producer and arranger for Gregory Porter's Blue Note Records debut album, Liquid Spirit. In February 2014, the recording won a Grammy in the Best Jazz Vocal Album category. As a long-time collaborator with Gregory Porter, he also produced the album Water, which was nominated for a Best Jazz Vocal Album Grammy. In 2016, further releases of his productions included Gregory Porter’s Take Me to the Alley, Ed Motta's Perpetual Gateways, and Steph Johnson's Music Is Art. In February 2017, Kenyatta won a Grammy for his co-production of Take Me to the Alley in the Best Jazz Vocal Album category.

As a film composer, Kenyatta worked with Hubert Laws creating the score for Small Steps, Big Strides, a Fox network documentary detailing the history of African-American film. Kenyatta also composed the soundtrack for The Dawn at My Back, an interactive memoir that won the Online Film Festival Jury Award for Short Filmmaking New Forms at the 2004 Sundance Film Festival. In 2015, Kenyatta scored the film Spirits of Rebellion, by director Zeinabu Irene Davis. After the international success of Liquid Spirit in 2016, he scored the Gregory Porter biopic, Don't Forget Your Music. The film was released in the UK in the fall of 2016.

As an educator, Kamau has worked from 1999 to the present at UCSD.

Kamau Kenyatta (born June 27, 1955) is an American musician, record producer, arranger, film composer and jazz educator. He is a lecturer of music at the University of California, San Diego. He was given the Barbara J. and Paul D. Saltman Distinguished Teaching Award at UCSD in May 2009.