Jack de Keyzer

Jack de Keyzer is a 2 X Juno (Canada's Grammy) and 7X Maple Blues award winning artist, blues guitarist, singer, song writer and producer and one of the finest blues guitarists on the scene today. The British born, Canadian resident’s career has spanned over three decades. De Keyzer has released 7 CD's and 1 DVD as a leader and appeared as a session guitarist on hundreds of recordings. As a session guitarist he has appeared with many artists including Etta James, Otis Rush, John Hammond Jr., Ronnie Hawkins, Duke Robillard, Robert Gordon, Willy Big Eyes Smith, Bo Diddley & Blue Rodeo. Jack de Keyzer’s songs have also appeared in video; rock & blues radio charts; other artists CD's (Prairie Oyster's Platinum CD Everyone Knows); TV soundtracks and in Motion Pictures. In 2010 and 2003 de Keyzer was awarded Canada's highest musical honour the Juno award for Blues Album of the Year, for "The Corktown Sessions" (2010) and "6 String Lover" (2003). In addition to the Juno, de Keyzer has won 7 Maple Blues Awards and in 2007 won the International Songwriting Competition's first place prize for the song "That's the Only Time". Jack's most recent accolades came from two very Canadian institutions. First, Prime Minister Steven Harper's son Ben received a guitar lesson from Jack at the request of Canada's first lady Laureen Harper (a fan) at the Prime Minister's residence in January of 2009 . Jack was also awarded Great Canadian Blues Artist of the year from a poll of CBC radio listeners in 2009. Jack is currently touring and in the midst of writing songs for an all new original CD slated for a late 2010 release. He performs across Canada and internationally (US, Mexico, France, Portugal, Greece) over 160 shows per year. Juno Award winning artist Jack de Keyzer is a masterful, electric blues guitarist, soulful singer and song writer of the first order. His new live CD "The Corktown Sessions" is out now on the blue star imprint. For more information and music clips: Jack de Keyzer For interview scheduling please contact bluestarrecords@rogers.com Electronic Press Kit "The finest blues guitarist in Canada" Jeff Healey "If Jack de Keyzer was from Chicago, New York or LA, he'd be famous" Bob Dylan AWARDS Juno Win: 6 The Corktown Sessions/ Blues Album of the Year 2010 Win: 6 String Lover/ Blues Album of the Year 2003 Nomination: Blues Thing/Blues Album of the Year 2007 Nomination: Down in the Groove/Blues Album of the Year 2001 Maple Blues Award Guitarist of the Year 2007 Guitarist of the Year 2005 Guitarist of the Year 2004 Entertainer of the Year 2004 Electric Act of the Year 2004 Down in the Groove/ Blues Album of the Year 2000 Blues With A Feeling Award (Lifetime Achievement) 2001 International Songwriting Competition Honourable Mention "The Way That I Love You" 2010 1st place Win " That's The Only Time" 2007 Great Canadian Blues Award Winner CBC listeners vote 2009 Jazz Report Award: Down in the Groove/Blues Album of the Year 2000 Real Blues Magazine Award Live Act of the Year 2001 Guitarist of the Year 1999 -2004 (tie with Mel Brown) Durham Region Music Award Silver Blues/ Blues Recording of the Year 2005 Website: Jack de Keyzer A selected Discography 2009 The Corktown Sessions 2007 Blues Thing 2006 Silver Blues DVD 2005 Silver Blues 2003 6 String Lover 1999 Down in the Groove 1994 Wild at Heart 1991 Hard Working Man With others: King Biscuit Boy: Richard Newell AKA King Biscuit Boy, Mouth of Steel Bop Cats: Bop Cats ,Wild Jungle Rock Rock Angels: Rock Angels Rita Chiarelli: Just Getting Started Art Bergman: Sexual Roulette Chris Houston: The Field Recordings,Evil Twang Willie "Big Eyes" Smith: Nothin' But The Blues Y'All, Blues From The Heart Juke Joint Rockers/ Bluesin' It Big Daddy G: Topless John Mars: Whasup? (Producer) David Rotundo: Blues Ignited Blues Approved: Shane Scott/Pete Schmidt Mark Bird Stafford: HarpSpace Sam Myers: Coming from the Old School Kevin Mark: Rolling the Dice (Producer) Chris Murphy: I’m a Happy Guy Jimmy Bowskill: Old Soul Bob Walsh: A Canadian Blues Rendez-Vous Harmonica Shah: Listen at me Good 2006 (co-producer and guitarist) Tracy K and the Right Hand Band 2006 Cheryl Lescom: High Heeled Blues 2006 The Shaftmen: Mining the Blues 2006 The Shaftmen Read more on Last.fm. User-contributed text is available under the Creative Commons By-SA License; additional terms may apply.