Keith Caputo

News Updates - 20 February 2024

Yes, it is true, Mina is de-transitioning and will go back to being Keith.

Keith's been very vocal on how he feels about "gender-affirming care" for minors, and will always stand for their and women's rights.

He is speaking about his personal journey, and not overlooking anyone else's.

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Bio

One of the biggest voices (and smallest bodies) in rock music belongs to Brooklyn's own Keith Caputo. After garnering a massive following as the vocalist for the world-renowned rock-alt/metal outfit Life of Agony, Caputo’s honed a reputation for touching listeners to the very depths of their souls with his poetry; his heartrending live performances is well-earned: Within a single show, he is capable of inciting arena-sized mosh pits in addition to breathless silence.

Throughout the last twenty years, Caputo recorded sixteen+ diversely influential albums—not including demos, live records or EPs—with an impressive who’s who of industry veterans, including bassist and trumpet player Flea (Red Hot Chili Peppers), guitarist Craig Ross (Lenny Kravitz, Eric Clapton, Sheryl Crow), pianist Zac Rae (Fiona Apple, Miley Cyrus, Annie Lennox), producer Martyn Lenoble (Jane’s Addiction, Scott Weiland, Porno for Pyros, Mark Lanegan, The Cult), mixer Greg Fidelman (Rage Against The Machine, Marilyn Manson, Johnny Cash), mixer Mike Shipley (The Cars, Queen, Aerosmith, Joni Mitchell), and most recently, producers Sylvia Massey (Tool, Life of Agony, System of a Down) and Joey Z. for Life of Agony’s 2019 release, “The Sound of Scars.” On the festival circuit, he has shared stages with multitudes of varying genre titans, among them Coldplay, Nine Inch Nails, Björk, David Bowie, Pixies, Velvet Revolver, Bush, Slipknot, Red Hot Chili Peppers, Modest Mouse, Aphex Twin, Foo Fighters, and more. With distinctive influences ranging from Led Zeppelin and The Doors to Arthur Rimbaud and William S. Burroughs, Keith is unafraid to mine new musical territory, as evidenced by his most recent releases: “A Fondness for Hometown Scars,” “As Much Truth as One Can Bear," and ”Love Hard.”

Keith also has frequently co-collaborated with Grammy-nominated multi-instrumentalist producer Andy Kravitz (Cypress Hill, Billy Joel, Imogen Heap, Julianna Hatfield), whom he met during the Life of Agony "Soul Searching Sun" recording sessions in the late 1990s. Kravitz co-produced and was heavily present on his last two albums, "Love Hard" and "As much Truth as One Can Bear," as well as on his ambient geek-rock duo side project with Ryan Oldcastle as The Neptune Darlings with their two releases, "Chestnuts and Fireflies" and "Principium Sequentia."

Obsessed with hard truths, Caputo remains an intrepid conquistador of his own pain. Orphaned by heroin-addicted parents, Keith was forced to grow up in a dark world of poverty, violence and crime. And while themes of abuse and abandonment may seem familiar to those who follow his work, Caputo innovatively sheds new light on these subjects with every song he creates. As unorthodox as his lyrical content can sometimes be, the most surprising aspect about Caputo is his undying romanticism—his unwavering insistence on seeing the silver lining in every cloud. As Keith himself says, "From my own feelings of displacement, dissatisfaction and yearning, comes a vast sea of compassion."