Keith Emerson (innate November 2, 1944) is a British keyboard player and composer. Erst the member of The Nice, he went on to begin Emerson Lake and Palmer (ELP), one of the number 1 supergroups, in 1970. Ensuing a breakup of ELP, he reunited The Nice in the mid-'90s to go on tour.

Emerson was innate around Todmorden, England. As a toddler, he learned american classical music, from either which he derived a great deal of inspiration to produce his have style, combining classical music, jazz, and rock themes. As a performing artist on the Hammond organ, Emerson jumped at a chance to collaborate by having Robert Moog, and function sustaining his invention, a Modular Moog, an analogue synthesizer, in 1969. When more creative person like the Beatles and the Rolling Stones had used a Moog, Emerson was a 1st creative person to tour using a single.

He is known for his technical indicator virtuosity & for his survive prank, including utilizing knives to hang on to down organ keys in the period of solos & using the favorite rig to rotate his soft prevent-above-prevent piece he's "playing" it (strictly representation, since acoustical pianos just can't work while turned top side down within this manner). Along by using coeval Richard Wright of Pink Floyd and Rick Wakeman of Yes, Emerson is widely regarded as one of a top keyboard players of the progressive rock era.