Enid Cumberland
Artist. Ska
- Active
- 1959-1966
- Also known as
- Keith and Enid, Keith & Enid
Enid Cumberland was the woman's voice in Keith and Enid, the duo with Keith Stewart whose ballad "Worried Over You" was one of the biggest records of the years just before ska.
The record, a monster hit, was produced by the shop owner Simeon L. Smith for his Hi-Lite label, with the tenor saxophonist Trenton Spence's six-piece band behind the singers; in Britain it came out on Emil Shallit's Blue Beat label. Through the early 1960s the duo had further hits, among them "Only a Pity" and "What Have I Done," and their 1964 "Lost My Love" was an early example of the new ska beat; many of their singles were issued in Britain for the Jamaican community there. Keith and Enid were among the vocal duos whose country-flavored two-handers established the ska ballad.
By the mid-1960s she was singing with the harmonica player Roy Richards, with whom she recorded "He'll Have to Go" and, for Coxsone Dodd at Studio One, the up-tempo "Rocking Time."
Last updated October 23, 2026
Connections
- Coxsone Dodd (producer)
- Studio One (label)
Notes
- Steve Barrow and Peter Dalton, The Rough Guide to Reggae, 3rd ed. (London: Rough Guides, 2004), 21, 28.
- Barrow and Dalton, Rough Guide to Reggae, 21, which calls it a "monster hit." Lloyd Bradley, This Is Reggae Music: The Story of Jamaica's Music (New York: Grove Press, 2001), 127.
- "Keith and Enid," artist biography, Shazam, accessed October 21, 2026, https://www.shazam.com/artist/-/3178802.
- Bradley, This Is Reggae Music, 95.
- "Keith and Enid."
