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Barry Keenan Bio

Barry Keenan has a lifetime career as a singer/songwriter. He started recording professionally at the age of 13. By the time he turned age 19, he already had his first major publishing deal in New York and has been a published writer by such notable companies as Warner/Chappell, Universal, All Nations Music, Criterion Music and Peer/Southern Music.

As a recording engineer, Keenan has owned and operated two commercial recording studios in the Los Angeles area during the 1970's and 80's. He has worked on the recorded music of such notable recording artists as Beck, Warren Zevon, Sting, Devo, Pantera, No Doubt, The Goo Goo Dolls and The Cranberries to name only a few.

As a producer, he received his first major break when Miles Copeland (The Police, IRS Records) asked him to produce Adam Ant in 1984. He is the recipient of The Arts For Humanities Award issued by The New World Festival in December of 1983.

He was honored by SESAC in Nashville for his songs in the #1 box office hit motion picture, Kickboxer starring Jean Claude Van Damne which featured his song, "Fight For Love". As a recording artist, he has received commercial radio play coast to coast from stations like KROQ and KLOS in Los Angeles to WCOZ in Boston. His band, Invisible Poet Kings was certified gold on Sirius Satellite's Starlight channel. In December of 2009, after spending a year on the Songs Of the Times Music Chart hosted by Neil Young on Neil Young's "Living With War Today" website, Keenan reached the #1 position with his anti-war song entitled, "Our Comfortable Lives" and remained at the #1 position for an astonishing 62 weeks.

The quality of the song, "Our Comfortable Lives," convinced Anne McLeod, author of the textbook, La Chanson en Classe d' Anglais, (a book written to help French speaking students learn English) to give Keenan his own chapter. Other notable songwriters included in the book are Woody Guthrie, Bob Dylan, Pete Seeger, John Lennon, Eminem, Bruce Springsteen, Freddie Mercury & Ray Davis.

Keenan's duo, Not A Bus received a review of "Perfect" from Stanford radio station KZSU receiving 8 stars out of a possible 4 star rating. Keenan is currently recording with Producer/Engineer, Matt Forger (Michael Jackson, George Lucas, Francis Ford Coppella). The first song, Under The Sun" was released in the fall of 2014. In January of 2015, "Under The Sun' reached the #2 position on Jango/Radio Airplay international radio.

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