1. Keb' Mo' is a singer, guitarist and songwriter, living in Nashville, Tennessee.
30 Facts About Keb' Mo'
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Keb' Mo' started his musical career playing the steel drums in a calypso band.
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Keb' Mo' moved on to play in a variety of blues and backup bands throughout the 1970s and 1980s.
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Keb' Mo' was further immersed in the blues with his long stint in the Whodunit Band, headed by Bobby "Blue" Bland producer Monk Higgins.
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Keb' Mo' has appeared on stage in several versions of the musical Spunk, by George C Wolfe, an adaptation of three short stories by Zora Neale Hurston.
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Keb' Mo' won his first Grammy Award for this album, which featured guest appearances from Jackson Browne and Bonnie Raitt.
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Keb' Mo' joined musicians Laval Belle on drums, Reggie McBride playing bass and Joellen Friedkin on keyboards to perform 14 songs, some from each of his albums.
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In 2003, Martin Scorsese collaborated with many blues musicians including Keb' Mo' to put together a series of films entitled The Blues.
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On October 20,2009, Keb' Mo' released the live album, Live and Mo'.
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At the 2010 Crossroads Guitar Festival, Keb' Mo' performed an acoustic set with Stefan Grossman and an electric set with Vince Gill, Albert Lee, James Burton, Earl Klugh and Sheryl Crow.
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Keb' Mo' joined the finale with most of the day's performers.
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Keb' Mo' performed at a White House event titled "In Performance at the White House: Red, White and Blues" on February 21,2012.
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Keb' Mo' later performed two songs with emcee Dan Aykroyd.
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Keb' Mo' has been supportive of charity Playing For Change since its inception and recently appeared in a video with Keith Richards' singing Bob Marley's "Get Up, Stand Up".
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Keb' Mo' partnered up with Taj Mahal to release a joint album, TajMo, on May 5,2017.
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In June 2019, Keb' Mo' released a studio album, Oklahoma, with guest contributions from Rosanne Cash, Jaci Velasquez, Robert Randolph, and Taj Mahal, with a duet with Robbie Brooks Moore.
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Keb' Mo' played the Glastonbury Festival in June 2019 followed by UK and European dates in July 2019.
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Keb' Mo' performed at the 2019 Musicians Hall of Fame and Museum concert and induction ceremony.
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Keb' Mo' won the Grammy Award for "Best Americana Album" in 2020 for Oklahoma.
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Keb' Mo' was one of the headliners at the 2020 Mahindra Blues Festival in Mumbai, India.
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In 1997, Keb' Mo' portrayed the character Isaac, the Angel of Music, in the episode "Inherit the Wind" and again in 1999 in "Then Sings My Soul" of the television series Touched by an Angel.
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Keb' Mo' performed "Hand It Over" from his 1996 release Just Like You in the 1997 episode and again in the 2002 episode "Remembering Me: Part 2".
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Keb' Mo' appeared as JD Winslow in the 2001 episode "Shallow Water", where he performed his song "God Trying to Get Your Attention" from his album Slow Down.
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Keb' Mo' played the role of the mischievous spirit Possum in the 2007 John Sayles movie Honeydripper.
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Keb' Mo' has co-written the opening music for B Positive with executive producer Chuck Lorre.
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In 2019, Keb' Mo' featured as a guest artist on the PBS concert series Bluegrass Underground.
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Keb' Mo' is part of the No Nukes group which was against the expansion of nuclear power.
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Keb' Mo' uses several types of guitars, including electric guitars, acoustic guitars and resonator guitars.
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Keb' Mo' owns a variety of acoustic and resonator guitars, including a Gibson artist model, a guitar made for him by James Goodall, a National Style N, a National Resorocket, and a Gibson ES-335-shaped resonator guitar with a P-90 pickup that he purchased in a Nashville club and had repaired.
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Keb' Mo' performed two songs with Bonnie Raitt: "No Getting Over You" and "There Ain't Nothin' in Ramblin'".