Keith Ciancia, better known as Keefus Ciancia or Keefus Green (born November 6, 1972) is an American

United States

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 born musician

Musician

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 (keyboards) and producer.

Life and work

Keefus Ciancia began a relationship with TBone Burnett as a session musician after being heard on a local radio station in Los Angeles

Los Ángeles

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, later co-producer on a few TBone projects such as the Coen Brothers' film The Ladykillers

The Ladykillers

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and Cassandra Wilson

Cassandra Wilson

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's Thunderbird. In 2009, Ciancia performed in Germany with Iggy Pop

Iggy Pop

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, Marc Ribot

Marc Ribot

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, and Tine Kindermann, worked with producer Chris Bruce on Meshell Ndegeocello's 2009 release "Devils Halo" and finished scoring a film for The Brothers Dowdle entitled The Poughkipsee Tapes.
In 2000 he toured with Everlast and subsequently co-wrote songs with him for Everlast's Eat at Whitey's

Eat at Whitey's

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album. That led to producing Everlast's most recent album Love, War and the Ghost of Whitey Ford

Love, War and the Ghost of Whitey Ford

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in 2009.