Keane are a compelling piano-driven pop/rock trio, and with over 8 million record sales since 2004, have quickly become one of the UK's favourite bands. Captivating, soaring vocals, life-affirming choruses and thrilling multifaceted music using filters, delay and distortion effects - Keane’s thrilling pop songs have been rewarded with success around the world.
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Keane's uplifting, piano-driven pop/rock is created by vocalist Tom Chaplin drummer Richard Hughes and pianist Tim Rice-Oxley, three childhood friends from East Sussex, England who formed in 1997 and began performing original material in 1998. Propelled by Chaplin's enunciated croon and Rice-Oxley's inventive keyboard parts, the group debuted in 2000 with the self-released single Call Me What You Like

Their big break ultimately arrived in December 2002, when Fierce Panda Records representative Simon Williams (who had helped discover Coldplay) was impressed with Keane's live performances and offered to issue the band's next single, Everybody's Changing . Keane then signed with Island Records in 2003 and released their debut album Hopes and Fears i> (2004), hitting the top of the U.K. album charts during its first week of release. The single Somewhere Only We Know< i> became a huge hit on both sides of the Atlantic, and Keane were awarded two Brit Awards (Best Breakthrough Act and Best Album 2005) and also a Grammy nomination for Best New Artist. The album became the U.K.’s second highest-selling record of the year. Keane went back to the studio and fashioned a darker, more thought-provoking record. Under the Iron Sea (2006) reached number four on the Billboard Top 200 and topping the U.K. charts whilst featuring the band's most commercially successful single to date, Is It Any Wonder? .

Keane returned with a slightly reworked sound for their third album Perfect Symmetry(2008), including the reemergence of electric guitar, saxophone, musical saw, and synthesizer. Where the best moments of Hopes and Fears<./i> were the powerful, piano ballads, and Under the Iron Sea brought in electronic rock and distorted piano sounds, Perfect Symmetry has more of a pop feel, with heavy use of synthesizers and electric guitar for the first time since they were signed. Keane make thrillingly bold music that crosses easy listening to emotive rock and dance, propelled by Tom Chaplin's pure and soaring voice coupled with Rice-Oxley's creative keyboard parts.
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