1. Keith Gordon Green was an American pianist, singer, songwriter, and musician.
18 Facts About Keith Green
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Originally from Sheepshead Bay, Brooklyn, New York, Green is known as a pioneer in the Christian contemporary genre.
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Keith Green was born in Sheepshead Bay, a neighborhood in Brooklyn, New York.
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Keith Green played the role of Kurt von Trapp in The Sound of Music starring Janet Blair in the opening production at the Valley Music Theater, a modern 2865-seat theatre in the round in Woodland Hills, Los Angeles when he was 10.
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Keith Green became the youngest person ever to sign with the American Society of Composers, Authors, and Publishers upon publication of this song at age 11.
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Keith Green was a guest on the television game show I've Got a Secret on May 3,1965.
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Keith Green had written 10 more songs by the time that he was 12.
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Keith Green grew up reading the New Testament and called the mixture of being Jewish and learning about Jesus "an odd combination" that left him open-minded but confused and deeply unsatisfied.
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Keith Green became interested in Eastern mysticism and the "free love" culture.
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Keith Green became an ordained minister, seeing his music as a tool of his ministry.
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Keith Green realized he was often too hard on growing believers and believed that all Christians needed to have at least a brief stint on the mission field.
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Keith Green described the changes he went through in his next-to-last article for the Last Days Magazine.
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Keith Green was signed to contemporary Christian music label Sparrow Records in 1976 and worked on the album Firewind with Christian artists 2nd Chapter of Acts, Terry and John Michael Talbot, and Barry McGuire.
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Keith Green's wife Melody was at home with one-year-old Rebekah and six weeks pregnant with their fourth child, Rachel, born in March 1983.
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Keith Gordon Green, Josiah David Green, and Bethany Grace Green are interred in the same coffin at Garden Valley Cemetery behind the Garden Valley Baptist Church, less than a half-mile from the LDM property.
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Melody Keith Green continued to lead Last Days Ministries from Texas until 1996, when she moved to California and launched Last Days Ministries Online where all of Keith Green's writings are free and his music can be found.
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On November 27,2001, Keith Green was inducted into the Gospel Music Hall of Fame.
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In 2011, Melody Keith Green announced that a feature film about Keith Green's life was in development.