Maynard James Keenan

Maynard James Keenan fascinates me as one of rock's true polymaths. The Ohio-born frontman of Tool, A Perfect Circle, and Puscifer doesn't just sing, he constructs entire worlds where intelligence and menace coexist on a knife's edge. His unusual path, enlisting in the Army before pursuing art school, seems to feed the uncompromising vision in his music. He refuses to repeat himself, and these days he pours that same obsessive craft into winemaking. For me, Keenan represents the most intellectually serious and genuinely strange corner of modern rock, and I respect it deeply.

Name (English)

Maynard James Keenan

Name (Japanese)

メイナード・ジェームス・キーナン

Reading

めいなーど・じぇーむす・きーなん

Born

April 17, 1964 (age 62)

Zodiac / Chinese zodiac

Aries / Dragon

Origin

Ravenna, Ohio, United States

Occupation

singer / record producer / composer / musician

University

Kendall College of Art and Design

• Official sitehttps://www.puscifer.com
• Instagramhttps://www.instagram.com/puscifer/
• Xhttps://x.com/mjkeenan
• Wikipedia (English)https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maynard%20James%20Keenan
• Wikipedia (Japanese)https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%83%A1%E3%82%A4%E3%83%8A%E3%83%BC%E3%83%89%E3%83%BB%E3%82%B8%E3%82%A7%E3%83%BC%E3%83%A0%E3%82%B9%E3%83%BB%E3%82%AD%E3%83%BC%E3%83%8A%E3%83%B3
• Wikidatahttps://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q311621

Tags

• Ohio
• singer
• record producer
• composer

Last updated

2026-06-11

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