Colin Keenan Music

The official channel for Colin Keenan.

Dubbed “The Minister of Sinister” by bassist Bryan Beller (The Aristocrats) for his dark-hued lyrics and cynical outlook, Colin Keenan started his music career in Connecticut where he played in various forgettable and rightly forgotten bands. After a series of clearly foreseeable failures, Keenan entered Berklee College of Music in Boston as a bass player and composer where he impressed absolutely no one with his skills. Fortunately, Berklee did provide a fertile ground for his latent songwriting skills, and he was soon writing and performing with Brad Fernquist (GooGoo Dolls), Wes Wehmiller (Duran Duran), and film/TV composer Shawn Pierce among others.
  
Relying on his classical composition background combined with Berklee’s jazz-infused palette, and with an abiding love for the simplicity and lyricism of the American singer-songwriter tradition, Keenan soon turned to creating his own complex yet accessible music.