Keenan Back

Keenan Back is a mercurial British artist who started in the world of music at an early age. Thanks to his brother <a href="spotify:artist:6QF9jZk7NKic4H0A01lGWw" data-name="Liam Back">Liam Back</a> making beats at home and a passionate music teacher at school, it was quite easy for him to access songwriting and understand beat production.

In an internship at a music store, he met his actual best friend <a href="spotify:artist:1vqshyaC3e9mXXpR2CzCfs" data-name="Bennykaay">Bennykaay</a>, which led to the beginning of the band Contrast (2013-2015). It was the first time he performed in front of an unknown audience. Through these experiences, he expanded his genres into pop-punk and rock.
As time went by, band members realised how their individual music taste was diverging from the band roots.
Keenan envisioned himself creating a funky album, named <a href="spotify:album:7kcLzoyPU5yaSSa7WL0cOL" data-name="Clarity">Clarity</a>, which was available on several platforms. This clearly implied a sign of adapting to the new era of consuming music.

Due to sharing a common interest on funky bands such as <a href="spotify:artist:37ZvFp654tY74Z1D2TLOGR" data-name="Trombone Shorty">Trombone Shorty</a> and <a href="spotify:artist:0JCxGVxsISZzJHJPUOtceB" data-name="Tower Of Power">Tower Of Power</a>, Keenan’s colleague friend Merlin offered him to collaborate on a project which they named <a href="spotify:album:2SPkYjN8OFWAmhygKh3cH7" data-name="The Funky Fizzles (Mini Ep)">The Funky Fizzles (Mini Ep)</a> (2017). From the beginning of 2018, Keenan decided to go solo again. His song <a href="spotify:track:2GUwWbzP48evUAtZdnvp2i" data-name="Aspen">Aspen</a> meant the real transition from the band guy to the independent artist.

A new chapter in Keenan’s music career was open after the release of his first music-video <a href="spotify:track:72WajFoTKSqQm8KmdzsNYK" data-name="Wisdom">Wisdom</a> (2019). Being his first song created after moving to Hamburg, the song implied a change into a more mature, happy and consistent artist, a fact that is reflected in his first 2020’s song <a href="spotify:track:4URar5GKj4x7qwswUfk5lv" data-name="Focus">Focus</a>.