Jack de Keyzer is a two-time Juno Award

Juno Award

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 winner and a seven-time Maple Blues

Maple Blues Awards

The Maple Blues Awards are Canada’s blues awards, "honouring the finest in Canadian blues". They are the only comprehensive national best in blues awards program. The program's goal is to promote blues music across Canada, and to recognize outstanding achievement...

 award winning artist, blues guitarist, singer, song writer and producer. Jack has received numerous awards including Maple Blues Awards for Best Blues Album, and the 2001 Lifetime Achievement Award. Real Blues magazine crowned him Live Act Of The Year in 2001, and has twice named him guitarist of the year.

In 2003 and 2010 Jack de Keyzer was awarded Canada

Canada

Canada is a North American country consisting of ten provinces and three territories. Located in the northern part of the continent, it extends from the Atlantic Ocean in the east to the Pacific Ocean in the west, and northward into the Arctic Ocean...

's highest musical honour; the Juno award for Blues Album of the Year, for "6 String Lover" (2003) and for "The Corktown Sessions" (2010).
Jack de Keyzer also won the 2007 International Songwriting Competition

International Songwriting Competition

The International Songwriting Competition is an annual song contest based in Nashville, TN, whose mission is to provide the opportunity for both aspiring and established songwriters to have their songs heard in a professional, international arena. ISC is designed to nurture the musical talent of...

's first place prize for the song "That's the Only Time".*

The British born, Canadian's career has spanned over three decades. Jack is a former member of Hamilton

Hamilton, Ontario

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 band The Bopcats - a rockabilly

Rockabilly

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 group who released two albums in the 1980s on Attic Records

Attic Records (Canada)

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. After leaving The Bopcats, Jack became one of The Rock Angels releasing an independent EP in 1983. His solo work began in 1989.

Jack de Keyzer has released seven CD's and one DVD as a solo artist and appeared as a session guitarist

Session musician

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 on hundreds of recordings.

As a session guitarist he worked with Etta James

Etta James

Etta James is an American blues, soul, rhythm and blues , rock and roll, gospel and jazz singer. In the 1950s and 1960s, she had her biggest success as a blues and R&B singer...

, Otis Rush

Otis Rush

Otis Rush is a blues musician, singer and guitarist. His distinctive guitar style features a slow burning sound and long bent notes...

, John Hammond, Jr., Ronnie Hawkins

Ronnie Hawkins

Ronald "Ronnie" Hawkins is a Juno Award-winning rockabilly musician whose career has spanned more than half a century. Though his career began in Arkansas, USA, where he'd been born and raised, it was in Ontario, Canada where he found success and settled for most of his life...

, Duke Robillard

Duke Robillard

Michael John "Duke" Robillard is an American blues musician.After playing in various bands and working for the Guild Guitar Company, he co-founded the band Roomful of Blues with pianist Al Copley in 1967. He has also been a member of The Fabulous Thunderbirds which included Kim Wilson, replacing...

, Robert Gordon

Robert Gordon (musician)

Robert Gordon is an American rockabilly musician. Gordon rose to fame performing in several genres including alternative rock, punk rock, and rock and roll.- Early days:...

, Willy Big Eyes Smith, Bo Diddley

Bo Diddley

Ellas Otha Bates , known by his stage name Bo Diddley, was an American rhythm and blues vocalist, guitarist, songwriter , and inventor...

 & Blue Rodeo

Blue Rodeo

Blue Rodeo is a Canadian pop and country rock band, which was formed in 1984 in Toronto, Ontario. They have been signed with Warner Music Group since their debut album Outskirts in March 1987...

. Jack de Keyzer’s songs have also appeared in video; rock & blues radio charts; other artists CD's (Prairie Oyster

Prairie Oyster

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's Platinum CD Everyone Knows); TV soundtracks as well as Motion Pictures (The Michelle Apartments

The Michelle Apartments

The Michelle Apartments is a Canadian black comedy film, released in 1995, by John Pozer.The film stars Henry Czerny as Alex Hartwell, a government auditor sent to the small town of Walton to review the books of a chemical company...

, My Father's Shoes

My Father's Shoes

"My Father's Shoes" is a song released in 1992 by the band Level 42 with the label RCA. The song is released as single in 1992, is the only single released in this year. It was released in only two countries: United Kingdom and Spain....

) and on TV (Traders

Traders (TV series)

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, PSI Factor

Psi Factor: Chronicles of the Paranormal

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).

Jack's first release 'Hard Working Man' was produced by Stacey Heydon. The album made a name for de Keyzer in the Canadian blues industry through the successful singles "Blue Train", "That's The Way" and "Nothing In The World". The single "That's The Way" made it all the way to #13 on Rock Radio

Rock Radio

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.

Jack received accolades from two very Canadian institutions in 2009. First, Prime Minister Steven Harper

Steven Harper

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's son, Ben, received a guitar lesson from Jack by request from first lady Laureen Harper

Laureen Harper

Laureen Ann Harper is the wife of Canada's 22nd Prime Minister Stephen Harper.-Life and career:The eldest of three, Teskey was born in Turner Valley, a rural town south-west of Calgary, Alberta. Her parents were ranchers and owned an electrical contracting company; the Teskeys divorced in 1991,...

 at the Prime Minister's residence. Later that year Jack was also named Great Canadian Blues Artist of the year by CBC

Canadian Broadcasting Corporation

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radio listeners.