As an entirely self-taught musician from a musical family, Keith Beauvais has enjoyed a long and successful career in the music business, having started out playing guitar for various bands and studio projects in and around London. In 1987 Keith became a member of critically acclaimed band Ordinary Man (EMI Records). He played on all the bands’ releases, including an album recorded at the legendary Abbey Road Studios.
Since the late ‘80s Keith has been very much in demand as a studio session musician, playing keyboards as well as guitar. He has played on many tracks such as the worldwide hit single Kiss by Tom Jones and the Art of Noise, the Everything Changes album by Take That, three albums by Gary Numan, the million selling single Pure and Simple by Hearsay and on tracks for Sugababes, Liberty X, Kym Marsh and James Morrison.
Keith produced many of the backing tracks for the artists and celebrities on the BBC’s Fame Academy and then went on to work as a musician and producer on the No 1 US album On My Way here by American Idol artist Clay Aiken. Other notable productions include single releases for Sting, Alistair Griffin, Antony Costa (Blue) & UK reggae artist Bitty Mclean.
Over the last 10 years Keith has concentrated on songwriting, production and music for TV. In 1997 he signed a worldwide publishing deal with Sony BMG music and since then has had international success as a songwriter in the UK, USA, Europe, Scandinavia, Japan, South Korea, South Africa, Australia, Russia and Brazil. Some notable co-songwriters have included Taio Cruz, Marc Owen, David Sneddon, Lucie Silvas, Juliet Roberts, Conner Reeves, Betty Boo & Shaun Escoffery.
More recently Keith has been writing music for television including the BBC, Channel 4 and Channel 5, and also helping to develop young artists willing to learn from his skills, knowledge and experience developed over the past 20 years.
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