Dan Keeton - A Victor of the Cross
At age 4, Dan Keeton would face his dad's alcoholism, the divorce of his parents, child abuse from a step-mother and a foster home.
at age 11, he moved to Kentucky where he found his Grandmother's box of gospel cassettes. On that first tape he heard Sister Vestal Goodman say that he could be one of God's children and be saved.
So when the tent was set up across the street from Grandma's house and they began playing some of this same music, Dan was compelled to go see. Not only did he see, but he found that Vestal was right, Dan gave his life to Christ that day.
Dan's Dad re-dedicated his own life and then traveled to Missouri returning with Dan's real mother and they were re-married again 3 days later! They then started a family singing group called "The Kings Kids".
At age 16, Dan joined The Veterans Quartet from Leitchfield, KY Later he was awarded the opportunity to perform for two weeks with The Speer Family and The Singing Americans before moving to Branson, Missouri. There he Joined the Blackwood Quartet and won First place in the Campbell's Ozark Country Jubilee Talent Competition. with a voice The Branson Country Review Magazine discribed as a "Rich and Pure Tenor Voice".
Being in great demand, Dan moved to Louisville, KY where he performed with The Impacts for 2 years and then to Sisseton, SD to perform as lead singer for Lowell Lundstrom Ministries Impact America Crusades.
During this time he was awarded as the Grand Prize Winner in the National Singers Contest conducted from Washington, DC.
Dan then returned to Branson, Missouri appearing at the Positive Country Theater for a season and his own show at The Settle Inn Resort Hotel before returning to Ashland, Kentucky to form The Keeton Ministry. That is where he was asked to fill in for Gold City.
In July of 2004, Dan moved to Kinston, North Carolina, joined the Dixie Melody Boys and was nominated as one of the top ten horizon Individuals of 2005.
Now in 2007, you'll find Dan Keeton on a journey, that is taking him around the world to tell a story of how a terrorized little boy became an American Tenor.
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