| Kelly Keeling | |
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| Birth name | Kelly Keeling |
| Born | 25 June 1968 |
| Origin | Lafayette, Louisiana, United States |
| Genres | Hard rock, blues-rock, heavy metal, progressive |
| Occupations | Musician, singer, songwriter, record producer |
| Instruments | Vocals, guitar, bass, piano,multi instrumentalist |
| Years active | 1980-present |
| Labels | Mascot Records |
| Associated acts | Baton Rouge, Blue Murder, John Norum, Carmine Appice's Guitar Zeus, Michael Schenker Group, Heaven and Earth, Erik Norlander, Lynch Mob, Trans-Siberian Orchestra, O'2L, |
Kelly Keeling (born June 25, 1968) is an American musician and songwriter. Keeling started playing at the age of 14 and first appeared on the music scene as the lead singer of the American heavy metal band Baton Rouge.[1] In his career, he worked with many major hard rock acts, wrote movie soundtracks and played also with Christian rock bands.[2]
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Keeling was at first the guitarist and then the lead singer of the band Baton Rouge, which had three Top 40 AOR hits entitled "Walks Like a Woman," "Doctor," and "The Storm." in 1990. His association with producer Jack Ponti led him to provide songs for the German hard rock band Bonfire and music and backing vocals for Alice Cooper’s album Hey Stoopid.[3]
In 1991, he left Baton Rouge to join John Sykes' band Blue Murder. Keeling recorded tracks on the album Nothin' but Trouble with Carmine Appice and Tony Franklin, which he worked again with on many projects in later years. Sykes decided to re-record his voice over Keeling’s, so that the latter appears only for backing vocals and lead vocals on only one track of the album.[3] Blue Murder broke up in 1994.
Kelly Keeling then joined the solo project of former Europe guitarist John Norum. He worked on Norum’s albums Another Destination (1995) and Worlds Away (1996), but left the guitarist in 1997.[3]
Keeling continued to collaborate with renowned hard rock musicians, and joined with Michael Schenker for MSG album The Unforgiven in 1999[3] and with the project Guitar Zeus founded by famous drummer Carmine Appice (Vanilla Fudge, King Kobra).[3]
He wrote songs with Don Dokken for the Dokken albums Long Way Home and Hell to Pay and in 2004 he sang on former Dokken guitarist George Lynch album Furious George.
In the 2000s, Keeling toured with the bands O'2L and Paris Keeling and started a solo recording career with the album Giving Sight to the Eye in 2005. In those years, he toured also with Erik Norlander, Trans-Siberian Orchestra, Rock4Xmas, featuring Badfinger member Joey Molland, and The Kelly Keeling Show.
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