Jim Keller

Born and raised on the East Coast, Jim Keller found fame after moving to San Francisco, where he launched Tommy Tutone in the late 1970s. Despite their meteoric rise, the band was short-lived, and Keller soon found himself in the proverbial wilderness, struggling to make ends meet until he talked his way into a job with famed composer Philip Glass. For the next 25 years, Keller would go on to run Glass’s publishing company, eventually managing his career outright in addition to working with luminaries like Tom Waits, Ravi Shankar, and Rufus Wainwright. In 2009, Keller returned to performing and recording with Sunshine In My Pocket, the first in a series of seven critically acclaimed solo records that have garnered profiles everywhere from NPR to The New Yorker.