David J. Keyes

David J. Keyes (died July 9, 2019) was an American bassist. He worked with the likes of Renaissance and Willy DeVille.

Biography Keyes was born in Peoria, Illinois to a family of eight siblings; six brothers and two sisters. After a jam session with DeVille and the band, he was brought on as their new bassist, and returned in 2009. He left in 2015 when his health worsened.

Keyes was diagnosed with Leiomyosarcoma in 2007. He succumb to this illness twelve years later on July 9, 2019. He was 64. He died in Sarasota, Florida, where he and his wife had moved too a year before. His funeral was in his home city of Peoria on August 10, 2019.

Discography Willy DeVille

Big Easy Fantasy (1995) Loup Garou (1995) Horse of a Different Color (1999) Crow Jane Alley (2004)

Renaissance

In the Land of the Rising Sun: Live in Japan 2001 (2002) The Mystic and the Muse (2010) Grandine il vento (2013)