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WHAT PEOPLE ARE SAYING ABOUT ME LATELY:
Interview in New York Press:
http://www.nypress.com/blog-4723-joseph-keckler-on-creatures-trikes-and-vampires.html
"Of particular interest to me is the opera singer spoken-word performance artist Joseph Keckler. He is the real deal and I can't recommend anyone more." -- Steve Lewis, BLACKBOOK MAGAZINE
"I totally loved this show at The New Museum for Contemporary Art... Joseph Keckler--a charismatic, astonishingly gifted performer all around--masters a wealth of faces, voices and sounds as he unspools strange/wacky stories or sings his songs, catching you up in silky, sticky webs of wonder and emotion.... How dangerous a spider is this Keckler? Ask the fan who found an out-of-control wireless mic inadvertently lobbed in her direction. "That's what qualifies this as peformance art," said momentarily unnerved Keckler. "The element of danger!""
--Eva Yaa Asantewaa, INFINITE BODY
"He is mesmerizing on stage and an utter joy to watch. His intriguing performance cannot be reduced to his looks or his charisma – which are considerable – but the skill of his performance. Keckler is a craftsman in the truest sense. He brings a certain delicacy and nuance to his performance that indicates that, far more than being a personality (a dime a dozen on the theater scene), he is an observer of people and a student of life – a far rarer quality that is often overlooked in favor of more flamboyant displays of talent....If you listen closely, you can hear Keckler's words, his voice, his soul, reaching for the sublime." -- NEW YORK COOL
"Keckler commands the stage with erotic bravado, launches into dramatic monologues and embodies so many different personae that you can’t help but wonder whether he’s possessed by spirits or if his body cannot help but channel all the of voices in his head.... Sensual, cathartic, overwrought and deeply philosophical, his psychotic twists and turns can bring his audience either to tears (from laughter) or to a numbed silence." -- NEW YORK PRESS
"Despite the title, Joseph Keckler is much more than a human jukebox. Although this writer and performer can flip styles as though responding to a switch, take on myriad voices, and draw on an extensive musical repertoire, his vocal skills are just one aspect of this gifted storyteller.... Keckler goes far beyond comic surface impressions. As he deals with the news of his mother's aneurysm and the uncertainties and disappointments he and she both face throughout their lives, he is poignantly earnest and disarmingly articulate." -- BACKSTAGE
"Keckler juggles multiple voices with such aplomb that echoes of Khatchaturian reverberate through the aural plate-spinning that occurs.... Keckler is different, rare among authors in that we get a sense of third person fly-on-the-wall reality in the tuned cadences of his most marvelous and personal instrument-the human voice.... His bass-baritone is the type of pleasure to hear that even while you attend closely to the music and the words, the timbre of the voice itself resonates with power and pathos that demand "more!".... The texture of the experience and the way it remains will be with you long after the run is complete. Joseph Keckler is a man to watch." -- Q ON STAGE
"Studly"-- VILLAGE VOICE
"The Divine"-- TIME OUT NEW YORK
"If you’re one of those early adopters who enjoys discovering enormously talented performers moments before their big break and Hollywood has come calling, then I suggest going to see Joseph Keckler..."-- THEATRE SCENE
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