Joining keytar goddesses Juliette Commagare and Imogen Heap is Lauren Rocket, of punk girl group Rocket.  
Rocket describes itself as “a volatile combination that leaves one wondering what the results would be if the Shangri-Las crashed the stage during an early Motley Crue gig.”

Sorry if this ruins your week: Everyone’s favorite George Michael Christmas tune as “sung” by Sheila Saputo.

Komega has introduced a bizarre DIY MIDI controller - the Kromatron.
On first glance, it looks like a Keytar. Look closer, though, and there aren’t any keys!
The Kromatron is built specifically to interface with modern audio performance software such as Ableton Live. It has 4 knobs, 2 faders, a two-axis joystick, and 8 buttons.
The device [...]

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red, yellow, blue makes white, originally uploaded by Bombardier.
Anna Oxygen at Bumbershoot 2005.
Love the strange hat…..

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Mose Giganticus, originally uploaded by Nathan Backous.
Great shot in a basement in North Portland. That’s some good keytar.

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CIMG3480.JPG, originally uploaded by worldfamousinsf.
Anybody know who this keytarist is?
 

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Our Cinderella has been found, originally uploaded by &y.
In Keytarded’s capable hands, beautiful music flowed out of the keytar.

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Champain Jammm loves us, originally uploaded by &y.

The keytar may be the holy grail of instruments, but it still has its haters.
 

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Sucking keytar, originally uploaded by &y.
Not sure how that keytar works…

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__//Liz Cowboy Style\\__, originally uploaded by R??S.
Elisabeth King of the The Jason Forrest Band.

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Keytar, originally uploaded by Potatojunkie.
I found a bunch of interesting keytar shots that I hadn’t done anything with - so today is officially Bizarre Keytar Day.
This is the lovely Nekoi of Psydoll - [...]

Imogen Heap, above, is a Grammy-nominated English singer-songwriter from Essex, best known for her work as part of Frou Frou and for her 2005 solo record Speak for Yourself.
She’s also known to show off some keytar & vocoder chops:

Keytars have been the subject of ridicule for years because of their association with 80’s hair bands.
Fortunately, today’s keytarists aren’t like the keytarists of the 80’s. If there’s any doubt in your mind about that, you’re probably not familiar with Juliette Commagere, above, the keytarist & vocalist of Hello Stranger.
Hello Stranger is an indie alt-rock [...]

 

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Croatian keytar player Belinda Bedekovic has been playing music since she was three and a half years old. She is now known as “the fastest finger on the remote keyboard”.
But while she was a keyboard wunderkind, and has been making music since then, she’s best known in the US for her appearances accompanying Sacha Baron [...]