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Bahamas R&B singer Johnny Kemp of Just Got Paid fame dies

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KINGSTON, Jamaica (AP) – Bahamian R&B singer Johnny Kemp, who is best known for the hit song Just Got Paid, has died in Jamaica. He was 55.

Jamaica police said Friday that Kemp was found floating at a beach in Montego Bay on Thursday morning. It had not yet been determined how he died.

Police said Kemp arrived in Jamaica on a cruise ship but added that they did not have further details.

Reach Media Inc. said Kemp had been scheduled to be on a Caribbean cruise this week, but the US-based parent company of the Tom Joyner Morning Show said it did not have further details.

Kemp was nominated in 1989 for a Grammy Award for Just Got Paid in a category that included Bobby Brown and Luther Vandross. The song was a No. 1 hit on the US Billboard R&B chart.

Kemp appeared on a 2007 Keith Sweat DVD called Sweat Hotel Live and had been performing at musical events across the US in recent years.

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