lil keel | ja

"Keeley Valentino was born and raised in the beautiful Bay Area of northern California, with the exception of four years spent in the central valley of Bakersfield. While Marin County is where she calls home, it was in Bakersfield that Keeley’s love of music really began to take shape. Though always loving to sing and having a propensity for performance at a young age, in Bakersfield she discovered country music and a romance with story telling through song. Returning to Novato, California at the age of 12, she sang her way through high school in various choirs and ensembles and...

Kyle “Keelay” Pierce (born December 5, 1980) and Tim “Zaire” Lewis (born March 1, 1980), better known as Keelay & Zaire, are hip hop producers from the San Francisco, California and Newport News, Virginia areas respectively. Keelay, originally from the city of Salt Lake City, Utah, now resides in San Francisco, California, and is in charge of the duo’s West Coast production headquarters, The Torta Oven. Keelay is a talented producer who got his start in hip hop by working with the likes of Cali Agents, Fortilive, and Saafir, prominent emcees within the hip hop genre. Zaire, originating from Dayton,...

Greg Keelor is a Canadian songwriter and musician. He is best known as a member of the band Blue Rodeo, where he shares songwriting and vocal duties with Jim Cuddy. Keelor has also released three solo albums, his first titled "Gone", which was released in 1997 to rave reviews from fans and critics. In 1995 Keelor released his second album, "Seven Songs For Jim", which was dedicated to his father who had recently deceased. "No Man's Land" is the first single off Greg's latest solo album, "Aphrodite Rose", which was released in 2006 and supported by a fall tour. Keelor...

Larry Keel and Natural Bridge Connecting traditional songs of yesterday with their own original and inventive sounds of today, Larry Keel & Natural Bridge create astonishingly powerful acoustic music rich in heritage, heart and hot licks! With a style that evokes both atomic rock energy and dynamic tonal purity, Keel and his ensemble are intent upon taking their instruments and their voices to their fullest potential for emotion and amazement. While paying respect to the legacy left by the forefathers of bluegrass, Keel bridges the gap between traditional and contemporary American Mountain Music. Larry Keel & Natural Bridge includes flatpicking...

James Keelaghan is a Juno award-winning Canadian folk singer-songwriter born in Calgary, Alberta, now based in Winnipeg, Manitoba. Many of his songs, such as "Kiri's Piano", about the interment of Japanese Canadians, "October 70", about the FLQ crisis, are inspired by events and figures in Canadian history. Known for his lilting baritone voice, his driving rhythm guitar, and a keen sense of scene and narrative, Keelaghan’s music bridges traditional folk music with Canadiana. His song "Cold Missouri Waters", about the Mann Gulch fire of 1949, was covered by the band Cry Cry Cry in 1998. His songs have also been...