John Ogetti Kpiaye (born 1948) is a reggae session and live guitarist.
48 UK hit with "Swan Lake",[4] and Matumbi,[3][dubious – discuss] who had a No.
[5] Born in the East End of London to an English mother and a Nigerian father, Kpiaye began a career as a welder on leaving school at the age of fifteen.
[1][2] In 1966, he took up guitar after being given one by his mother and formed The Hustlin' Kind in 1967, who later changed their name to The Cats.
[1] After The Cats split up in 1971, Kpiaye joined the In Brackets, a backing band that worked with artists such as Dandy Livingstone, Owen Gray and Winston Groovy, and from 1973 worked as a producer in the emerging London lovers rock scene.