L.B. 'Kyle' Keilman
| L.B. 'Kyle' Keilman | |
|---|---|
| Birth name | L. B. Keilman III |
| Also known as | Kyle Mann (radio and recording) |
| Born |
August 25, 1951 Chicago, Illinois |
| Genres | Rock, blues, alternative, others |
| Occupation(s) | Recording artist, radio broadcaster, film crew worker and executive producer |
| Years active | 1969–present |
| Associated acts | Beefy Red, Sons of Champlin, Ed Mann |
L. B. 'Kyle' Keilman (born August 25, 1951) is a recording and performing musician, a radio personality, a former mayoral candidate and community activist who was politically active in California in the last decade, and a credited movie film crew member.
Keilman moved with his family to Marin County, California in 1959. A decade later he graduated from Redwood High School in Larkspur, California.
Keilman was a member of the San Francisco Bay Area music group Beefy Red as a harmonica player, performing from 1969–1972. In 1975, he recorded with the Sons of Champlin on the album of the same name (as 'Larry Keilman', re-released in 2007 as 'The Ariola Years') and was favorably reviewed at the time in Rolling Stone Magazine Keilman also appeared as a guest on Ed Mann's Perfect World CD (as 'Kyle Mann') on harmonica, vocals, and a co-writer on the track 'Pattern Mod (Your Karmic Monitor Speaking)', and on Mann's 1996 CD Have No Fear (again as 'Kyle Mann'.) He additionally recorded with former Sons of Champlin bandmember and solo recording artist .
In 1980–81 Keilman produced radio commercials on the now-defunct Marin County rock station KTIM-FM. After attending Santa Monica College in the early 1980s as a broadcasting student where he was a newscaster on Santa Monica's KCRW, Keilman joined Fred Wallin as a co-host on the Los Angeles afternoon drive KFOX Sports Forum, work which included intensive coverage of the then Los Angeles Raiders football team. He also covered the 1985 Super Bowl for KFOX.
As a newscaster he reported on the 1984 eruption of Mauna Loa volcano nationwide for Associated Press as well as statewide in Hawaii, and wrote and voiced news reports regarding eruptions of Kilauea Volcano for several years. In 1987 he was a newscaster on Maui's KMVI and in the later 1980s was a Maui morning drive deejay on KLHI's Island Mischief show which was the top-rated show in its time slot. He later worked in radio as a Program Director in central California at KOTR, and as Production Director in Acapulco, Mexico for Stereorey in the 1990s.
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