We’re excited to introduce you to the always interesting and insightful Keith Sanders. We hope you’ll enjoy our conversation with Keith below.

Keith, appreciate you joining us today. We’d love to hear about a project that you’ve worked on that’s meant a lot to you.

Up to date our most meaningful project is our first recorded EP. We are a covid band and kinda got together piece by piece with guitar player Chris Pena being the first piece. Then we added our friends and talented musicians, Angelo Dulang, Jacob Rapp, Justin Malone to fill out the sound. Later we would add keys player John Cherry to complete the band. But like I said we’re a covid band and it was pretty hard for us to play out and put this EP together, so it meant a lot to us to be able to put together an albeit short list songs we had written to show people what we’d been working on.

Awesome – so before we get into the rest of our questions, can you briefly introduce yourself to our readers.

Well I’ve always been around music since the day I was born because my father studied music so there was always instruments lying around the house. At around age 3 I picked up the trumpet and made my first sound, so of course my father took an interest in guiding me along my musical journey. I played horns all the way through high school and then joined a show choir in college where I learned to mold my voice to be my new instrument. Around about 20 is when i found my new love…the guitar! From there I taught myself how to play so I could have some background noise for my voice. Played around a good bit after that and learned how to work a stage which came in handy later. I started seriously playing music around the age of 23 where I joined different groups and starting solo projects of my own. I played in and out bands until about age 29 when I started concentrating more on myself and more on my own music then others. I started writing more songs and playing solo gigs to help promote them before I recorded. At age 32 I moved to Austin where I branched my brand out even further when we started a band named Brother Thunder! Since then we’ve released music, done tours, and had all around pretty cool shows at some killer venues. All in all I’m in a pretty happy and productive place in my life right now.

What do you find most rewarding about being a creative?

For me the most rewarding thing about being an artist is being heard. There’s nothing better than someone listening to your music and then later on at shows watching them in the crowd singing them back you! There no better feeling on earth for me.

Are there any resources you wish you knew about earlier in your creative journey?

I wish had more guidance and knew more about the business side music. Like contract work, LLC branding, copyright protection law, etc.

Contact Info:

• Website: BrotherThunder.com
• Instagram: @brotherthundermusic
• Facebook: BrotherThunderMusic
• Youtube: Brother Thunder