Bo Keeney

Bo Keeney

Born in Los Angeles, California in 1988 to a mother who sang in punk and hard rock bands and hung out with “Van Halen” & “Guns ‘N’ Roses”, and with an equally music-mad father, Bo began playing the drums from the age of four. He was an accomplished stick-twirler by the time the family moved across the Atlantic to Winchester, Hampshire at the age of 11, but he found himself keen to do his own thing and began raiding his folks’ record collection for inspiration. A spell in Florence, Italy at the age of 15 pushed Bo deeper into his own musical world and upon returning from Italy after a year without the qualifications to get into sixth form, he enrolled in a music production course at an arts college which was where his songwriting really began to take shape, helped by his borderline-obsessive determination to be a one-man band all the way. “I wanted to do it all like Stevie Wonder did it – I wanted to play bass like Flea and perform like Beck, crossing genres all the time and never being easy to pin down.” The 23-year-old’s debut EP showcases a voice that is beautiful yet understated and a songwriting style that gently fuses soul with tinges of blues, jazz, plus a sprinkling of contemporary musical textures, without ever sounding showy or stylised.
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