Kelly Keeling

Kelly then became singer, songwriter, producer, guitarist, and keyboardist for Carmine Appice’s Guitar Zeus first three albums: Guitar Zeus, ... (Japan), and Guitar Zeus 2 Channel Mind Radio.

Kelly was featured as vocalist on Erik Norlander’s album Music Machine and European tour in June where they also performed songs from Kelly's solo album, which was in the mixing stage at that time. This three-piece band featuring Erik Norlander and Vinnie Appice, performed shows as Kelly Keeling during a three-day festival. In the fall of summer 2004 he toured again as singer and bassist with Lana Lane and Erik Norlander in the USA, Europe, and Russia. He also released live album Stars Rain Down.

Giving Sight to the Eye is Kelly’s first solo album featuring Kerry Livgren, Roger Daltrey, Don Dokken, Denny Laine, Tony Franklin, Carmine Appice & Vinnie Appice (Black Sabbath, Dio) among other friends he has met along the way.

In 2015 Keeling signed on as the Lead Singer with FOUNDRY, an American Rock Bank from Las Vegas featuring Kelly on vocals, Marc Brattin, drums and James Fucci, guitar. The debut FOUNDRY record, released January 15, 2015, is 10 Hard Rock/Pop song engineered by Matt Breunig (The Killers) and mixed by 7x Grammy Award Producer Steve Thompson (Guns N' Roses, KISS, Metallica, Korn and Soundgarden). Keeling, Brattin and Fucci are now composing original works for a second album to be released January 2017.

In 2012, Kelly formed the band Balance with guitarist/co- writer Kim Roy, formerly of the band Kingdom, and reunited Baton Rouge for a new recording to appear on Frontier Records, which was cancelled in 2013.

Keeling recorded and toured with the bands O'2L, featuring all members of the west coast branch of the Trans-Siberian Orchestra, and recorded eight songs intended for another solo album which eventually appeared in the first studio album of the project Paris Keeling with executive producer Marty Paris. He started his solo recording career with the album Giving Sight to the Eye in 2005. In those years, he toured with Erik Norlander, Trans-Siberian Orchestra (he received gold and platinum album awards from TSO) and Wayne Morrisson's Rock4Xmas, featuring Badfinger member Joey Molland. On this tour he performed backing vocals for Eddie Money and did his solo career retrospective set The Kelly Keeling Show, with band mates Ethan Brosh, Alex Pierce and Dave Vandiggitty.

Kelly was recruited by Don Dokken to step in as assistant songwriter, background vocalist and producer for 7 songs on Dokken's CD Long Way Home. 2004 - Kelly again writes and produces with Dokken for the album Hell to Pay. Then he was also featured on album Furious George and toured with George Lynch.

In 2001 he sang on Heaven & Earth's Windows to the World, King Kobra's Hollywood Trash and played keyboards and sang harmony on ...'s Doin' Business As...

In 2000 Kelly appears on the Grand Funk Railroad tribute A Tribute to Grand Funk Railroad ... an American Band.

Kelly Keeling (born June 25, 1966) is an American musician and songwriter. Keeling started playing at the age of 14 and first appeared on the music scene as the lead singer of the American heavy metal band Baton Rouge. In his career, he worked with many major hard rock acts, wrote movie soundtracks and played also with Christian rock bands.

He became the Michael Schenker Group vocalist for the albums The Unforgiven & The Unforgiven World Tour. He also appeared on the 25th anniversary CD Tales of Rock 'n' Roll featuring all MSG singers. Kelly wrote three songs for this album, two for previous MSG vocalists Graham Bonnet and Gary Barden and one for himself ("Big Deal") which opens the album.