Keith Christopher

An exceedingly talented vocalist with a variety and a personable, embraceable quality, Keith Christopher produced music that was melodic and endearing. His tunes reflected the feelings and problems of his amount of time in a method that was solid and susceptible, passionate and obvious. Originally from your Pacific Northwest, Christopher performed in Broadway trips in the united states, Off-Broadway, and in lots of of New York’s leading night clubs and cabarets. As an HIV-positive performer and an environmentalist, he constructed special materials for the US Environmental Program aswell as the Brands Project. He previously the distinction to be the initial openly homosexual, HIV-positive guy to portray an openly homosexual, HIV-positive personality on national tv (as Bruce on NBC’s Another Globe), and may also be observed in the long-running CBS daytime dilemma The Guiding Light as the openly homosexual and HIV-positive personality Wyatt (the type was an HIV counselor who backed a string regular through her examining and medical diagnosis). Christopher also made an appearance on an bout of Fox’s Television Nation as you of several performers serenading Senator Jesse Helms using the melody “The actual World Needs NOW COULD BE Like.” He was profiled on PBS’ In the life span and highlighted on Entertainment Tonight, CBS Information at Noon, The Charles Perez Display, numerous radio chat displays, and in magazines in the united states, including Out newspaper. Christopher passed away at age 40 in NEW YORK on Feb 23, 1998. His Compact disc Naked Truth premiered posthumously by SPOUSE Records afterwards that year.