Derek Keller

I am a 20 year-old singer/songwriter from Punxsutawney, PA.

BIO:

Music became significant for me around 1995 when I started listening to Green Day and Aerosmith. Growing up, my Uncle Brent being a musician was a very major reason I decided to play music. I loved to watch him sing and play. I used to make pretend drumsets out of pot lids, cardboard boxes, sticks, shoeboxes, and duct tape. I was always tapping on things and singing along with tapes or cutting out and drawing cassette tape cover designs or something like that. I started a band with some friends in elementary school, playing drums for them; was fun. As I got older and started listening to Bush and Nirvana and Rage Against the Machine. When I was about 14, I borrowed a guitar that belonged to my Uncle Gus and I started looking up guitar tableture for Nirvana songs. I learned my chords and practiced. Before I knew it I was filling notebooks with strange lyrics and simple bar chord patterns. Eventually, I started writing more mellow, folkish material which I am content with. As of now, I'm not really serious with music; I do it for fun. I like to record stuff and enjoy watching all the parts of the song come together little by little.

I've been in bands here and there. A drummer for this band, guitarist for that band, bass player, singer, etc...As of now I just jam with people and try to write my own stuff.

Not really. I have played infront of people, but I'm currently not very active. I'm in the shadows trying to write and find my sound.

Red House Painters

Elliott Smith

Brent J Dickey

The Doors

Christopher Dale

*For the mp3s you hear on this site*: nothing more than a Yamaha F-310FP acoustic, a keyboard, a Dell Dimension Desktop 4400, and a little 9 dollar desktop microphone. The programs I used were Acoustica MP3 Mixer, and Acid Pro 4.0.