Message to GOP: Get Your Boy - Keyes Starts Singing on TV

Day four for Republican Alan Keyes' on the campaign trail brings more surprises! First, the senate candidate stopped to sing for CBS 2 News. Then, welcome to Mister Keyes' neighborhood. The out-of-towner will live temporarily in a suburban two-flat in the heart of Democratic territory. And he seems to revel in delivering it. Keyes is the latest in a long line of politicians to burst into song. And he didn't even wait for an ethnic holiday the way most of them do. Whether it was an Illinois governor and state senate president or a mayor, Chicago's singing politicians have mostly been rank Amateurs, with only one genuine million-selling professional recording star. Cook County Commissioner. Jerry "The Iceman" Butler may have a rival. “I've been singing all my life. The first time I went on the state to sing I was six years old in the first grade. Music is a way of releasing, I guess, tensions and also good and bad feelings,” Keyes said. Republican U.S. Senate nominee Keyes said he studied music at the New England Conservatory and even considered a career in Opera. He said music has shaped his distinctive public speaking style. “A lot of it has to do with whether you're aware of the music that underlies all conversation. I mean every language, It is musical,” Keyes said. Alan Keyes promised a different sort of campaign, his critics are finding some of the rhetoric he's been using to be much less than musical.  [more ]

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