Keith Emerson

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Keith Emerson Biography

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Keith Noel Emerson (born 2 November 1944, Todmorden, in the West Riding of Yorkshire), is an English keyboard player and composer. Formerly a member of the Keith Emerson Trio, John Brown's Bodies, The T-Bones, The V.I.P.'s, P.P. Arnold's backing band, and The Nice (which evolved from P.P. Arnold's band), he was a founder of Emerson, Lake & Palmer (ELP), one of the early supergroups, in 1970. Following the break-up of ELP, ''circa'' 1979, Emerson had modest success with Emerson, Lake & Powell in the 1980s as well as with 3, with the album ''To the Power of Three.'' ELP reunited during the early 1990s, releasing the album ''Black Moon''. Emerson also reunited The Nice in 2002 for a tour. His latest album, ''Keith Emerson Band featuring Marc Bonilla'', was released in 2008. Along with contemporaries Richard Wright of Pink Floyd, Tony Banks of Genesis, Billy Ritchie of Clouds, Rick Wakeman of Yes, and Jon Lord of Deep Purple, Emerson is widely regarded as one of the top keyboard players of the progressive rock era. Allmusic refers to Emerson as "perhaps the greatest, most technically accomplished keyboardist in rock history".

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