Nicholas James Keaton

Beverly Hills High, Attended 2000 - 2003, Class of 2003

singer, songwriter, model.

Neofunk

Singing, play a guitar, perform on the stage.

Choke, Uncle John's Bathroom Reader, Bloodmoon, Rich Dad Poor Dad, Idiot's Guide: To Getting Dumbe"Angels &; Demons" "On The Road" "Alice In Wonderland" "Deception Point", "20, 000 Leagues Under The Sea" "A Challenge For The Actor" "The Hardy Boys" Peter Biskind Books: "Easy Rider, Raging Bull" "Miramax, Sundance &; The Rise of Independent Film", "Wonderland Avenue", "Atlas Shrugged", "Brave New World"r.

Ace Ventura, American Beauty, American History X, Back to the Future, The Big Lebowski, Boondock Saints, Dogma, Donnie Darko, Fight Club, Happy Gilmore, Indiana Jones, Kingpin, A Life Less Ordinary, Love &; Sex, Natural Born Killers, Office Space, Old School, PCU, The Professional, Requiem for a Dream, The Rock, The Salton Sea, Seven, Sin City, Spaceballs, Super Troopers, Swingers, The House of Sand and Fog, Trainspotting, True Romance, U-Turn, What About Bob?, White Men Can't Jump. Pretty much anything that Quentin Tarantino has touched. Kevin Smith and Ridley Scott films. Sean Penn, Christopher Walken, Ed Norton, Uma Thurman, Ethan Hawke, Denzel Washington, Ryan Gosling, Mike Lawson, Tom Cruise, Val Kilmer, Chris Farley, Nicholas Cage, all actors I respect. Way too many favorites to list!! But defintitely first and foremost Stanley Kubrick's "A Clockwork Orange", "The Graduate" "Rainman" "Top Gun" :Pulp Fiction" Mulholand Drive" "Fear & Loathing In Las Vegas" "25th Hour" "Dazed & Con

Break Beats, Freq Nasty, The Sub Swara, DJ Loren, Patricio, Pinback, Citizen Cope, Alice Smith, Blues, 80's, Rock &; Roll (Bon Jovi, Stones, Van Halen, Boston, Rush, AC/DC, Poison, Motley Crue, Steve Miller Band, Ozzie Osbourne, Black Sabbath, Alice In Chains, The Ringers -;Joe Hursley Rocks!! (list goes on), Country (Tim McGraw, Garth Brooks, Toby Keith, Shania Twain, Brooks &; Dunn, Dixie Chicks, Kenny Chesney, Clint Black, Trisha Yearwood), Techno/Trance (DJ Tiesto, DJ A.M., Paul Oakenfold, DJ Scooter, DJ Shadow), Rap (Snoop, Dre, Emenim, 50 Cent, Diddy, Jay-Z, Black Eyed Peas, KRS 1, Too $hort, B-Legit, E-40, Andre Nicotina and many more), Old School Rap and Hip Hop, Classical, Opera, Musical, Celtic Rhythm, World Music, The Faint, Stevie Wonder, Morris Day & The Time, Sly & The Family Stone, Joss Stone, D'Angelo, James Brown, Van Hunt, Anthony Hamilton, Bilal, PrinChromeo, Jamie Lidell, The Time, Justin Timberlake, Prince, Herbert, Flosstradamus, Hot Chip, Jamiroquai, Apparat, ce

Grey's anatomy, fear factor, nip tuck, commander in chief, The OC, Buffy the vampire slayer, Oprah, The Scholar, The apprentices, MTV room raiders.

Capricorn

I grew up being bred to make real music. My father raised me on a balanced diet of turn-table 70's rock, soul, disco, and jazz. My grandfather taught me piano at 7, but I can't remember any of those lessons to save my ass. I started picking up instruments again at around 17 and retaught myself to play keys, guitar, bass, and a little drums. I love funk/hip-hop/r&b music (stuff with soul), and I write music that reflects spirituality and politics.

I recorded and released an independently distributed album Transit in 2003-2004. The album received good reviews from Vibe and Apple iTunes picked it up and let me sell songs in their $.99 store. I'm working on a new album that marries our funk-driven live sound with the electronic/hip-hop feel of Transit.

My music isn't conventional. I'm torn finding an audience somewhere between the neosoul, 70's funk/jazz I'm obsessed with and the vintage sound of synth/electronica that's currently permeating the ebb and flow 80's music comeback.
I've always listened to music. I'll always listen to music. After 17 years of digesting it, I started putting my own spin on funk electronica, cutting records, and calling it "neofunk". Everything from the solo shows to the 7 piece funk band extravaganza - I've done it. It's somewhere in the middle of it all, the happy medium, that I'm enjoying this.

This is the music I like. I hear something that's missing from the mainstream top 40 radio and the indie/social music revolutions. So I'm vowing to make records to plug that hole - records you and I can enjoy.
Thanks for giving my music a whirl.