Tom Keane
Bio
Tom Keane has known music all his life and was born into a family of musical pioneers. Tom wrote his first song at age 5, played drums in early grade school, and eventually mastered the piano by the age of 11. In 1974, he and his brother John began their careers as The Keane Brothers. This led to their first album, produced by David Foster. Motown Great, Lamont Dozier produced the second album. In 1976, Tom and John were the stars of their own variety show on CBS called “The Keane Brothers Show”.
After the Keane Brothers, during the formative years of his young adult life, Tom collaborated as a writer and musician with many producers and artists, such as David Foster, Burt Bacharach, Peter Allen, George Benson, Kenny Rogers, Patti La Belle, Chicago, Al Jarreau, Patti Austin, Jermaine Jackson, Whitney Houston, Richard Marx, Chaka Khan, Barbara Streisand, and Celine Dion to name a few.
Tom Keane has been awarded a Grammy nomination for “Though the Fire”, for which he co-wrote with David Foster and Cynthia Weil (You’ve Lost That Loving Feeling) and a Golden Globe nomination for the title song of Michael J. Fox’s movie “Secret of My Success”.
Tom is still very active in writing songs for artists, film, and television. Never strayed too far from his roots as a musician, producer, and songwriter.
Currently, Tom serves as a musician and mixer for Mack Keane - a gifted songwriter, producer, and artist. Tom mixed Mack’s work on Joyce Wrice’s debut album, released in 2021, “Overgrown”, where Mack wrote and produced the title track. Tom also mixed Mack Keane and ESTA’s 2022 EP release “Intersections” through the renowned R&B community/label Soulection. The EP has over 10+ million streams on all streaming platforms and has received stunning reviews from multiple media outlets.
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Pluralis
I really love how Pluralis works for creating great ambient textures for my verbs and even on a straight signal! It is definitely one of my favourite plugins for delay effects and ambient vibeage.