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Daniel Kieve

About Me

I've been playing the piano since I was ten years old. Music was a great hobby for someone who couldn't do much sport due to a dodgy back! I didn't really take music seriously as a career possiblility until I left school and having failed to get 'normal' day jobs during a year out before uni, got work playing piano in a hotel restaurant 6 days a week.My songwriting started when I was about 15, and has always been inspired by my life experience. My songs are on the subject of love, loss and changes with time.I've generally been working on my own as a musician, whether as a piano bar entertainer on a cruise ship, or playing and singing at weddings, so now I'm excited about the present recording project where I'm finally working with other musicians and hope to keep that going. I've also recently started working with my brother Paul, an illusionist, providing live incidental music for his shows. My song Hocus Pocus was written for a joke surprise performance at the book launch event in October 2007. Hope you enjoy my music! ------------------------------------------------------------ ---------------------------------------------------------- Get your own free cool template @ MySpace Layouts

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Music:

Member Since: 03/08/2006
Band Website: danielkieve.com
Band Members: Me- Vocals, Piano, some guitar, and programming of synth, drums etc. Vihtori Kajander -Electric and acoustic Guitar. Helen Goateley - Viola (on 'Timebomb'. ) Jerome Davies - double bass Helen Boyea - double bass on (This Time I'm Moving On'). Scott Brooker - Saxophone on ('Being On My Own') Harbans Srih - Drums - ('Being On My Own' & Time Is Not A Measure')
Influences: I've loved listening to so many different styles, genres and artists that I don't know where to start, but here's some examples of musicians/composers and singers that have moved me in some way:Pop/Rock/R&B/Soul: Carole King, George Michael, Billie Joel, Elton John, Richard Marx, Sade, Dusty Springfield, Marvin Gaye, Lionel Richie, Michael Jackson, Film Music - Danny Elfman, John Williams, Michael Nyman, Pino Donnagio, Jazz pianists: Bill Evans, Erroll Garner, Chick Corea, Nat King Cole. Jazz singers: Sarah Vaughan, Diana Krall, Frank Sinatra, Michael Buble. Latin, Afro Cuban, South American music: Salsa - eg. Yuri Buenaventura, Tito Puente, Samba & Bossa - Carlos Jobim, Nouveau Tango - Astor Piazzolla. Show Music: Rogers & Hart, Stephen Sondheim, , Michel Legrand, Jerome Kern, George Gershwin, Jerry Bock, Andrew Lloyd Weber - (the words on the sleeve of the LP 'Jesus Christ Superstar' helped me learn to read!) Classical: I love Debussy, Beethoven, Tchaikovsky, Chopin, Rachmaninov, and some Steve Reich and other minimalist music.
Sounds Like: Please have a listen and make up your own mind - comments welcome - constructive criticism welcome too!
Record Label: Aduki Music
Type of Label: Indie

My Blog

Green Party - County Council & Euro elections

UK Green Party websiteI've just been out leafleting with the Green Party candidate in Chigwell. It was interesting to talk to people I bumped into - in their front drives - the anger towards the three...
Posted by on Sun, 31 May 2009 15:10:00 GMT

Clean Green Energy

I've just been out canvassing for the Green Party. We're standing in the upcoming local and European Parliament elections in the UK, on June 4, as a positive alternative to the mainstream parties and ...
Posted by on Wed, 27 May 2009 06:04:00 GMT

Orangutans and Mars Bars

I was shocked by a news headline today, not to do with pig flu, but on the link between eating a simple bar of chocolate and the genocide of orangutans. I was shocked by the huge list of products that...
Posted by on Fri, 01 May 2009 17:41:00 GMT