Keane

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Keane are an English piano rock and soft ballads band from Battle, East Sussex. They are recognized worldwide because unlike most rock artists, they do not use a guitar in their music and because of Tom Chaplin's soft voice and falsetto. Despite this "no guitar" stance, they use synthesizers which sound almost exactly like guitars. Keane have a particular style of music (piano rock) that many have compared to Coldplay, members of whom they met wh...