Shane Keister grew up in Portsmouth, Ohio. He learned piano at an early age and developed an interest in other keyboards after doing so. He soon mastered the synthesizer, Moog synthesizer, Fairlight and Fender-Rhodes. Shane was a fellow music student with the now famous world class Africa/American lyric soprano singer Kathleen Battle. As a talented pianist he soon became known in the music industry as a result of his keyboard work and writing for Amy Grant, a contemporary Christian singer. However, in his final years in education, he started to change his musical tastes and began to dabble with 'garage' rock & roll bands. This was the kick start to his musical career.
In 1976, he began working for Elvis. Shane replaced Glen D, who had left to play for Emmylou Harris. He stayed to do the first small tour of 1976 before leaving to do his own thing. Today, Shane is a successful sessions player, engineer, producer, composer, arranger, and conductor. He is an extremely versatile studio musician and has produced and played on countless albums and worked with some of the finest performers including Elvis Presley, Roberta Flack, Diane Schuur, Paul McCartney, Dolly Parton, Kenny Rogers, Lionel Ritchie, Celine Dion, Billy Joel, Olivia Newton John, Tom Jones and many more.
Shane has over 1,000 compositions in various music libraries for TV shows. He has been involved with as well as composing TV jingles (AT&T, SAAB, HBO, JVC, Panasonic etc). He also has several motion picture soundtracks under his belt including the Disney production Ernest Goes To Camp. A Grammy nominee, he has received three Dove awards, two Cleo awards and an Emmy. Over the last few years he has spent time working and writing with international singing star and song writer Melissa Marquass. Melissa's singing career progressed rapidly after she appeared on Queen Latifah's show. Both Shane and Melissa became engaged to be married. Despite his demanding schedule in the music industry, Shane still tours from time to time with different artists and is currently keyboard player with The Chuck Keiper Band.
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