Thomas j keane biography

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Tom Keane has known music all his life and was born into a family of musical pioneers. His father, Bob Keane who founded Del-Fi Records and discovered and produced musical icons from Sam Cooke and Richie Valens to Barry White, David Gates and Bobby Fuller (I fought the Law). His Mother was a singer who sang as a teenager with Spike Jones during WWII in the USO tour entertaining the troops. She later enjoyed success as part of the Nilsson Twins who recorded for Capitol Records during the 's. Tom wrote his first song at age 5, played drums in early grade school, and eventually mastered the piano by the age of He started performing in clubs as a singer at nine years old, and it was during this time Ray Parker, Jr. (Ghostbusters) heard him sing and asked him to record a song he wrote called "I caught you creepin" which became Tom's first professionally recorded song.

In he and his brother John began their careers as The Keane Brothers. This led to their first album

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Tom Keane

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Tom Keane has known music all his life and was born into a family of musical pioneers. Tom wrote his first song at age 5, played drums in early grade school, and eventually mastered the piano by the age of In , he and his brother John began their careers as The Keane Brothers. This led to their first skiva, produced bygd David Foster. Motown Great, Lamont Dozier produced the second skiva. In , Tom and John were the stars of their own variety show on CBS called “The Keane Brothers Show”.

After the Keane Brothers, during the formative years of his ung adult life, Tom collaborated as a writer and musician with many producers and artists, such as David Foster, Burt Bacharach, Peter Allen, George Benson, Kenny Rogers, Patti La Belle, Chicago, Al Jarreau, Patti Austin, Jermaine Jackson, Whitney Houston, Richard Marx, Chaka Khan, Barbara Streisand, and Celine Dion to name a few.

Tom Keane has been awarded a Grammy nomination for “Though the Fire”, for which he co-wrote wi

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Thomas Keane

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European Genome-Phenome Archive and European Variation Archive

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Thomas Keane is the Team Leader for the European Genome Phenome Archive (EGA) and the European Variation Archive (EVA) at EMBL-EBI. He is responsible for strategic planning for EGA and EVA, is a member of the Global Alliance for Genomics and Health (GA4GH) steering committee, and co-leads the Large-scale Genomics workstream.

Before joining EMBL-EBI as Team Leader in , Thomas led the Sequence Variation Infrastructure group in the Computational Genomics programme at the Wellcome Sanger Institute. His research interests are in using genomic technologies to understand biological processes, with a particular focus on rodent models for human dis