Brian Keane

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Full Name	Brian Keane
Occupation	Author
Date Of Birth	Jan 18, 1953(1953-01-18)
Age	71
Country	United States
Horoscope	Capricorn

Brian Keane Biography

Brian Keane is one of the most popular and richest Author who was born on January 18, 1953 in United States. Brian Keane was born January 18th 1953, in Philadelphia. His mother, Winifred Keane, is an avant-garde composer as is his dad George F. Keane, who was a successful businessman was also a famous Irish Tenor. His brother Geoffrey Keane and his sister Sheila are both musicians too. Brian was born living in Westport, Connecticut and played his first professional gig as a rock and roll musician when he just a sixth-grade student. He took private lessons with famous jazz guitarist along with Juilliard instructor John Mehegan, and then with Czech composer Karel Husa at both Ithaca College, and Cornell where he was a student.

Brian Keane’s studio is in his first residence in Monroe, Connecticut which he purchased in 1985 and later converted into an recording studio later in. Brian resided within Newtown, Connecticut from 1995 until 2010, and commuted from his first home located in Monroe for work. Brian became married Susan St. Louis Keane in 1987, even though they were together from 1983. The couple had their first baby Wylder, born in 1987 and a the second child Dylan Keane in 1988. Additionally, Brian has a step son, Chris Laskowski, born to Susan in the year 1971. They are all musical however they also have other professions. Brian and Susan have divorced peacefully in the year 2010. While Brian performed all over the world in his beginning career as a musician, the bulk of his composition career was performed at his house in the forests of Connecticut close to friends who have known for over sixty years, in some instances. In a time when the majority of production of films and television was based at New York or Los Angeles, Brian was able to establish a substantial career by the fame and the emotional impact in his song.

By the mid 1990s Brian Keane was firmly established as a leading composer in documentary film, and a prominent producer of ethnic and New Age music simultaneously. The later 1990s brought Keane widespread success as a record producer with over three dozen Billboard charting albums for Windham Hill, RCA, Sony, Hearts of Space, and other record labels. Brian produced several successful Windham Hill records including the billboard chart topping CD’s Carols of Christmas, Thanksgiving, and several CD’s in the hugely popular Winter’s Solstice, and Summer Solstice series. Brian also signed Sean Harkness (a former guitar student) to a deal with Windham Hill. Brian also produced several critically acclaimed ethnic records including: Via Jo, and Afrika Wassa for Senegalese artist Vieux Diop, and Este Es Mi Mariachi featuring Linda Ronstadt and Mariachi Cobre. In addition, Brian became well established in producing prominent Irish artists including several RCA records for the female Irish traditional group Cherish The Ladies, Riverdance fiddling sensation Eileen Ivers, and others. In 1998, Brian collaborated with Chieftains founder Paddy Moloney composing and producing the music for the Disney and PBS joint production Long Journey Home: The Irish in America. The RCA soundtrack, featuring the Chieftains, Van Morrison, Elvis Costello, and others, won the Grammy Award for best traditional folk album in 1998.

The early 1990s saw Brian’s composing career rise dramatically in stature with the multiple-award-winning General Motors’ Playwright’s Theatre series for Nederlander television, which ran for four years on A&E, the Emmy- and Columbia Dupont-winning miniseries The Great Depression and The War on Poverty for the prominent film maker Henry Hampton, the highly influential Ric Burns film The Donner Party (documentary) which won a Peabody in 1992, and the Emmy- and Peabody-winning film The Battle of the Bulge, for Oscar-winning director Thomas Lennon. Brian scored many award-winning films for the PBS history series American Experience, working with producer Judy Crichton, directors Carl Charlson, Ben Loeterman, Mark Zwonitzer, and others. Brian also scored several award-winning specials for National Geographic working with director Oren Jacoby, and again with the Simon and Goodman picture company. In addition, Brian was hired by ABC News in the early nineties to be the composer for the first prime time, hour-long, news documentary series Turning Point. Working with producers Rudy Bednar and Betsy West, Turning Point would become the first of several news documentary series Brian scored for ABC News in the 1990s, and the musical approach developed for ABC News has been adopted in many subsequent news documentary series. Because of demand, Brian began hiring orchestrators, many of whom would go on to become successful in their own right like Michael Bacon, Richard Fiocca, Don Grady, Michael Terry, and others.

In the latter part of the seventies, while still making a living as a musician, Brian met film directors Jim Burroughs and Suzanne Bauman as he worked at his friend from childhood Gary Scovil’s studio for recording at Norwalk, Connecticut. It was in 1981 that Brian made his film debut for the two directors, Against Wind and Tide: A Cuban Odyssey, which was nominated for an Academy Award for best documentary in 1982. The early success of the film brought about a variety of score opportunities being offered to Brian in the 1980s in a time when only a few documentaries were scored using original music. Keane’s popularity as a composer grew rapidly and the tour continued as guitarist as part of a group band with Larry Coryell, and eventually as a solo performer with an album release of his debut solo album Snowfalls from 1986. In 1987, the score of Keane for the documentary Suleyman the Magnificent became the focus of German producer Eckart Rahn, who saw the film on television and was inspired to release the soundtrack CD of Brian’s music through the Celestial Harmonies label. The release, one of the first to blend the traditional Middle Eastern music, would become the start of a series of long-lasting and significant culturally significant collaborations with the middle eastern artist Omar Faruk Tekbilek, and the success of the album eventually led to Brian becoming a popular music producer for ethnic as well as New Age recordings, both for Celestial Harmonies and for a various prominent record labels.

Brian Keane Net Worth

Brian Keane is one of the richest Author from United States. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Brian Keane 's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)

Brian Keane (born January 18 1953) is a famous American composer musician, music producer, and guitarist. He composed scores for numerous TV and film shows, and has produced more than a hundred album tracks. Keane is regarded as a world-class musician as well as a pioneer in the field of scoring music for documentaries for television as well as a prominent record producer during the 1990s and the 1980s among the top renowned as well as influential music composers from his time.

Brian started his career as a guitar player in clubs as a sideman. He then he was a world-renowned jazz musician playing with a variety of Jazz legends from the 1970s and the 1980s, as well as traveling around the world and recording for many years as a guitarist duo together with Larry Coryell, and eventually becoming a Blue Note recording artist. Brian was a part of countless recordings, commercials, and film scores as a guitarist starting in the 1970s. He has recorded or performed as a guitar player with musicians like disco artist Vicki Sue Robinson and entertainment artist Eartha Kitt, the rock group Wishbone Ash, jazz bassist Eddie Gomez, jazz fusion group Spyro Gyra, flamenco guitarist Paco Delucia, blues musician Taj Mahal, the cajun icon Buckwheat Zydeco, classical clarinetist Richard Stoltzman, jazz saxophonist Marion Meadows, folk legend Pete Seeger, singers Linda Ronstadt, Bobby McFerrin, The Clancy Brothers, John Sebastian and many more.

In 1989, Brian Keane scored the music to Chimps: So Like Us, the HBO Academy Award-nominated and Emmy-winning documentary that helped introduce the public to naturalist Jane Goodall. The film was made by Oscar-winning directors Kirk Simon and Karen Goodman whose New York offices happened to be in the same building, one floor down, from the acclaimed film maker Ric Burns. After producing the classic Civil War mini series with his brother Ken Burns in the late eighties, the highest rated television documentary series in history, Ric went on to work with Brian on the 1990 award-winning documentary Coney Island. Brian has scored every one of Ric Burns’ award-winning films ever since, and their ongoing collaborations span almost three decades. By the end of the 1980s, Brian Keane had already established himself as the leading pioneer in scoring documentary films with the Hollywood Reporter calling him “the John Williams of documentaries”.

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In 1997, Brian started working with Hollywood agent Bruce Teitell, and scored several feature films including The Vernon Johns Story: Road to Freedom with James Earl Jones, Stephen King’s Night Flier for New Line Cinema, and Illtown for director Nick Gomez. Brian’s continued scoring documentaries as well, with the award-winning Burns mini series and Shanachie double CD soundtrack The Way West, Thomas Lennon’s Oscar-nominated and Peabody Award-winning The Battle over Citizen Kane, the award-winning PBS Nova series A Science Odyssey, and more award-winning American Experience documentaries for its new executive producer Margaret Drain. American Experience won Prime Time Emmy awards for Outstanding Non-Fiction Series in both 1998 and 1999. Also in 1999, Brian scored the multiple-Emmy-winning Ric Burns series New York: a documentary film, which after the World Trade Center attack of September 11, 2001, became among the biggest selling documentary series of its time.

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Brian Ranked on the list of most popular Author. Also ranked in the elit list of famous people born in United States. Brian Keane celebrates birthday on January 18 of every year.

Brian enjoyed a nonstop series of successes in the entertainment business for over two decades, but by 2008, the era of reality TV, digital media, and multi channel cable television was coming of age. The high end documentary was falling out of favor due to the expense of making them. A 2007 writer’s strike crippled the film and television industry. Budgets for live musicians were becoming a thing of the past, and the abundance of new cable channels meant smaller budgets and lower standards. Emmy judging was no longer monitored, and although Brian continued to score Emmy nominated films such as Ric Burns’ Into the Deep for American Experience, HBO’s Joe Louis: A Hero Betrayed, and The Running Rebels of UNLV, as well as the 2011 Academy Award nominated documentary The Warrior of Quigang for Ruby Yang and Thomas Lennon, Brian decided not to work as much, even considering retirement, preferring to have a period of time that was more balanced with his private life. That period would only last a few years.