Kelly Keeling
| Kelly Keeling | |
|---|---|
| Birth name | Kelly Keeling |
| Born | June 25, 1966 |
| Origin | Lafayette, Louisiana, United States |
| Genres | Hard rock, blues-rock, heavy metal, Progressive metal |
| Occupation(s) | Musician, singer, songwriter, record producer |
| Instruments | Vocals, guitar, bass, piano,multi instrumentalist |
| Years active | 1980–present |
| Labels | Mascot Records |
| Associated acts | Baton Rouge, FOUNDRY, 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, 1966) 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. In his career, he worked with many major hard rock acts, wrote movie soundtracks and played also with Christian rock bands.
At the age of 14 Kelly earned a GED and commenced a career in music, which has led him all over the world several times as a recording artist, singer, songwriter, multi instrumentalist, and producer.
Starting with being signed by Ahmet Ertegun of Atlantic Records with the band Baton Rouge put him in the public eye with MTV, AOR radio exposure, and two USA tours.
This was a busy year as Kelly Keeling worked on Alice Cooper's Hey Stoopid album for which he co-wrote the song “Snakebite”, and sang background vocals. He also wrote songs for the movie Rich Girl.
After the release of the third album Baton Rouge, the band split due to Kelly joining Blue Murder where he met Carmine Appice and Tony Franklin.
Kelly and Yngwie Malmsteen recorded "Speed King" for a Deep Purple Tribute - Smoke on the Water.
Kelly became vocalist for the John Norum Band, produced two albums, and toured in Sweden. Kelly appears on the albums Another Destination, Worlds Away & Face It Live '97.
Kelly then became singer, songwriter, producer, guitarist, and keyboardist for Carmine Appice’s Guitar Zeus first three albums: Guitar Zeus, ... (Japan), and Guitar Zeus 2 Channel Mind Radio.
He co-wrote/contributed two songs for the movie “Dish Dogs”. Kelly also appears, along with Denny Laine, Roger Daltrey, and Carmine Appice, on the movie soundtrack "Chasing Destiny" which Kelly wrote, produced and performed songs and scored. Kelly also scored the soundtrack for the movie "Totally Irresponsible".
In 2000 Kelly appears on the Grand Funk Railroad tribute A Tribute to Grand Funk Railroad ... an American Band.
In 2001 he sang on Heaven & Earth's Windows to the World, King Kobra's Hollywood Trash and played keyboards and sang harmony on ...'s Doin' Business As...
He became the Michael Schenker Group vocalist for the albums The Unforgiven & The Unforgiven World Tour. He also appeared on the 25th anniversary CD Tales of Rock 'n' Roll featuring all MSG singers. Kelly wrote three songs for this album, two for previous MSG vocalists Graham Bonnet and Gary Barden and one for himself ("Big Deal") which opens the album.
Kelly was recruited by Don Dokken to step in as assistant songwriter, background vocalist and producer for 7 songs on Dokken's CD Long Way Home. 2004 - Kelly again writes and produces with Dokken for the album Hell to Pay. Then he was also featured on album Furious George and toured with George Lynch.
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