Grammy Award–nominated artist Kem shares his life in this “breathtaking” (Michael Eric Dyson, New York Times bestselling author) and revealing music memoir tracing his transformative journey from homelessness to gold-selling artist.
Known for his smooth, affecting crooning and dapper style, Kem’s journey to the stage is nothing short of inspiring. In Share My Life, Kem goes back to the very beginning before his time to introduce his grandmother, who worked as a sharecropper in the South and had thirteen children. As Kem’s family rises from the sharecropping and ultimately lands in Detroit, there is an unspoken mantra of “hard things are better left unsaid,” which has devastating consequences down the line. And so, Kem grows up in the midst of an impenetrable silence. His mother is never without a beer in her hand, and his relationship with his father is oddly tense. Emotionally starved, Kem internalizes harmful feelings, eventually spiraling to drug use in his search for relief.
At nineteen, Kem is homeless, roaming the cold Detroit streets. In the overly bright Alcoholics Anonymous halls, Kem comes across men like himself verbalizing their feelings. The meetings helped him discover his own voice, using music as an outlet that has since touched millions.
In Share My Life, Kem chronicles his “revelatory, moving, and inspirational” (Lisa Cortés, Academy Award–nominated and Emmy Award–winning producer and director) journey of self-discovery, addiction recovery, faith, and redemption. The young boy who struggled with feelings of worthlessness becomes a man willing to put everything on the line for his dream.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Title Page
- Dedication
- Foreword
- Chapter 1: Nineteen
- Chapter 2: The Voice of Silence
- Chapter 3: East of Eden
- Chapter 4: Emasculation
- Chapter 5: Birth of Shame
- Chapter 6: Mother and Mom
- Chapter 7: Our Father
- Chapter 8: The Naughty and Nasty
- Chapter 9: Maze of Confusion
- Chapter 10: Sensitive People
- Chapter 11: Summertime Blues
- Chapter 12: The Long Way Home
- Chapter 13: Bourgeois et Noir
- Chapter 14: Soft and Wet
- Chapter 15: Up in Smoke
- Chapter 16: What’s in a Name?
- Chapter 17: Lady Luck
- Chapter 18: The Sophomore Chronicles
- Chapter 19: Musical Seeds
- Chapter 20: We Are the World
- Chapter 21: This Conversation Never Happened
- Chapter 22: “Out!”
- Chapter 23: Curse of the Downward Spiral
- Chapter 24: Hitting Bottom
- Chapter 25: A Beginning
- Chapter 26: Fearless and Moral
- Chapter 27: Born Again
- Chapter 28: Letting Go
- Chapter 29: Grinding It Out
- Chapter 30: Tempted
- Chapter 31: Mixed Emotions
- Chapter 32: The Masks of a Man
- Chapter 33: The Gospel Truth
- Chapter 34: Like Blood Through My Veins
- Chapter 35: Matter of Time
- Chapter 36: The Detroit Hustle
- Chapter 37: Aligning of the Stars
- Chapter 38: Dreaming on Broadway
- Chapter 39: Breakdown
- Chapter 40: Breakthrough
- Chapter 41: The Takeoff
- Chapter 42: Double Dealing
- Chapter 43: Success and Solitude
- Chapter 44: Find Your Way
- Chapter 45: The Hat
- Chapter 46: Easy Breezy
- Chapter 47: “The Child Is Father of the Man”
- Chapter 48: Intimacy and the Fourth of July
- Chapter 49: Light Seeker
- Chapter 50: Holding On
- Chapter 51: Promise to Love
- Chapter 52: Let’s Get Personal
- Chapter 53: A Reason to Rejoice
- Chapter 54: “So Beautiful”
- Chapter 55: Joy and Pain
- Chapter 56: The Strength of Spirit
- Chapter 57: Possibility
- Chapter 58: The Boundaries of Love
- Chapter 59: Prophecy and Fulfillment
- Photographs
- Acknowledgments
- About the Authors
- Copyright
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