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Barry Keenan
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"As my head came throught the hole, another hole came into view"....Barry Keenan from his song "It All Comes Down To You" 1975
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Barry Keenan has been a professional songwriter and recording artist for over 30 years. Keenan landed his first publishing deal in New York at the age of 19. Through the years, his musical compositions have been published by such notable companies as Warner/Chappell, Shada Music, Criterion Music, and Peer/Southern Music.
Barry wrote 4 songs for the hit movie, "Kickboxer," staring Jon Claude Van Damme for which he received a special award from SESAC at a 1989 Nashville ceremoney celebrating this international blockbuster as their biggest movie of the year. He was also awarded “The Arts For Humanity” award in 1983 by the Unity in Diversity Council for his song, ”Knocking On Another Person’s Door.” A striking version of this tune can be heard on his band, Invisible Poet Kings, self-titled first CD release available on East Of Sideways Music, http://www.eastofsidewaysmusic.com .
Keenan has written songs for the television soap “As The World Turns” and his compositions have also been placed in the NBC TV show "Passions."
As a solo writer/artist, or as the leader of Invisible Poet Kings, Barry Keenan and his music have been heard on radio stations from coast to coast such as KROQ in Los Angeles, and WCOZ in Boston. His song “Clean White Shirt” is certified gold on Sirius Satelite Radio’s Starlite channel. This video is soon to have a worldwide release on Ingram Micro's V-7 Nab 740 GPS device slated for release in 100,000 stores in over 100 countries.
You can listen to tracks from Barry's new solo CD release, "My Brain" on his MySpace site: http://www.myspace.com/barrykeenanmusic. Also check out Barry's just released single entitled "Our Comfortable lives" in which Keenan sings about the effects of war as only Keenan can. You can hear this song at www.barrykeenan.com.
Along with his career as a songwriter and artist, Keenan has also spent many years behind the mixing board as a recording engineer and a record producer, working on a wide variety of recorded music from a range of artists as diverse as Warren Zevon, The Cranberries, Sting, Pantera, Meatloaf, Robert Cray, No Doubt, Bush, Jennifer Paige, Beck, Bruce Hornsby, Tears For Fears, The Cure, Smashing Pumpkins, Joan Osborne, Bad Religion, Devo ,White Zombie, and Adam Ant, to name a few. Barry Keenan's producer web site can be found at http://www.barrykeenan.com .
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