List of keytarists

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The following is a list of keytarists. A keytarist is a musician that plays the keytar, a keyboard or synthesizer worn around the neck and shoulders, similar to a guitar. Only notable musicians who are widely noted for their use of the keytar as reported in reliable sources are included.

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• Pablo Lescano of Damas Gratis{{Cite web |date=2018-04-18 |title=Argentine Singer Pablo Lescano of Damas Gratis: ‘I’d Like to Do a Luna Park’ |url=https://www.billboard.com/music/latin/argentina-pablo-lescano-damas-gratis-interview-8347884/amp/ |access-date=2024-12-17 |website=Billboard}}
• Herbie Hancock"[https://archive.today/20081006115957/http://entertainment.timesonline.co.uk/tol/arts_and_entertainment/music/article2258703.ece Why the keytar's the star again]: Long dismissed as hopelessly naff, the keytar is enjoying a comeback," by Marcus O’Dair, Times Online, August 18, 2007 (Accessed 24 March 2008)
• Damon Albarn of Blur and Gorillaz
• Thomas Anders{{Citation|last=ModernTalkingVEVO|title=Modern Talking - You're My Heart, You're My Soul|date=2009-10-24|url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4kHl4FoK1Ys |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/varchive/youtube/20211221/4kHl4FoK1Ys |archive-date=2021-12-21 |url-status=live|accessdate=2017-07-10}}{{cbignore}}
• Daisuke Asakura
• Victoria Asher (Cobra Starship)"Hey, did you hear about that collaboration between Ashlee Simpson, Fall Out Boy's Patrick Stump and Cobra Starship keytar player Victoria Asher?" Fall Out Boy Frontman Stumped Over Supposed Involvement In Ashlee Simpson Collabo, by James Montgomery, MTV News (online), 30 August 2007 (Retrieved 24 March 2008)[https://web.archive.org/web/20080920125516/http://www.vh1.com/news/articles/1550855/20070125/cobra_starship.jhtml Cobra Starship's Gabe Saporta Speaks Out After Keytar Kerfuffle], by James Montgomery, as reprinted by VH1.com from MTV News, 26 January 2007 (Retrieved 24 March 2008)
• Joe Atlan
• Matthew Bellamy of Muse
• Christopher Bowes of Alestorm
• Bob Casale of DEVO{{Cite AV media|url=https://www.photofeatures.com/devo/images/prevs/devo-006b.jpg|title=Devo 1980 Bob Casale|website=Photofeatures|access-date=13 March 2025}}
• Régine Chassagne of Arcade Fire{{Cite magazine|last=Reed|first=Ryan|date=2018-04-12|title=Watch Arcade Fire, Chrissie Hynde Cover the Pretenders|url=https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-news/watch-arcade-fire-chrissie-hynde-cover-the-pretenders-627910/|access-date=2022-01-19|magazine=Rolling Stone|language=en-US}}
• Neil Cicierega
• Chick Corea (Chick Corea Elektric Band){{Cite web|url=http://chickcorea.com/bio/1986-1999/#.WfgveFuCzDc|title = Going Elektric: 1986-1999 | Chick Corea}}{{cite web|url=http://equipboard.com/pros/chick-corea|title=Chick Corea Equipboard|website=Equipboard|access-date=27 April 2019}}
• Stephen Devassy
• Thomas Dolby{{Cite web|url=http://www.sfgate.com/entertainment/article/Who-takes-credit-for-the-keytar-or-key-tar-3206737.php|title = Who takes credit for the 'keytar' or 'key-tar'?|date = 11 December 2009}}
• Brett Domino[http://www.synthtopia.com/content/2009/04/27/brett-domino-trio-on-britains-got-talent/ Brett Domino Trio on Britain's Got Talent]
• Geoff Downes of Asia and Yes
• George Duke
• Daniel Estrin{{Cite web|url=https://www.sydney.edu.au/news-opinion/news/2023/05/18/eurovision-why-we-keep-falling-for-the-keytar.html|title =Eurovision: Why we keep falling for the keytar|date = 18 May 2023}}
• Madonna Wayne Gacy
• David Garcia
• Lachlan Gillespie of The Wiggles
• Gregg Giuffria
• Magne Furuholmen of A-HA
• Jan Hammer
• Paul Hardcastle
• Imogen Heap{{Cite web|last=Username|first=Isra|date=June 30, 2013|title=Imogen Heap - Tidal- Live Royal Albert Hall HD|url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pXUi1JRA2eM&ab_channel=Isra|access-date=September 20, 2020|website=YouTube}}
• Tonči Huljić
• Randy Jackson
• J-Break
• Jean Michel Jarre
• Howard Jones
• John Paul Jones of Led Zeppelin
• Tyler Joseph of Twenty One Pilots
• Keytar Bear
• Henrik Klingenberg of Sonata Arctica
• Holly Knight
• Tetsuya Komuro of TM Network.
• Simon Kvamm of the Dan Nephew{{Cite web |url=http://ucl.booktype.pro/danish-review-2013/essay-on-nephew-sara-c/ |title=/Chapter: Essay-On-Nephew-Sara-C / Danish Review 2013 |access-date=2014-01-01 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140102192115/http://ucl.booktype.pro/danish-review-2013/essay-on-nephew-sara-c/ |archive-date=2014-01-02 |url-status=dead }}
• Lady Gaga
• James Lascelles of Steve Harley and Cockney Rebel (though only on the riff of "Mr. Raffles (Man, It Was Mean)")
• Robert Lamm of Chicago
• John Lawry of Petra
• Indra Lesmana
• Lights[http://www.synthtopia.com/content/2009/03/11/lights-i-owe-you-one/ Goddess of The Keytar 5: Valerie Poxleitner] (Lights) - (Accessed 11 October 2011)
• Barış Manço
• Manfred Mann of Manfred Mann's Earth Band{{cite web |title=Mal schräg, meist überragend - Bad Dürkheim |url=https://www.rheinpfalz.de/lokal/bad-duerkheim_artikel,-mal-schräg-meist-überragend-_arid,958439.html |website=www.rheinpfalz.de |access-date=16 May 2021 |language=de}}
• Sandy Marton
• Page McConnell of Phish
• Paul Meany of Mutemath
• Bridgit Mendler{{cite web |url=http://www.buffalonews.com/gusto/concert-reviews/bridgit-mendlers-simple-presentation-showcases-talent-at-erie-county-fair-20140809|title=Bridgit Mendler's simple presentation showcases talent at Erie County Fair|date=May 2013 |publisher=Buffalo News|accessdate=1 June 2013}}
• Prince
• Vadim Pruzhanov of DragonForce
• Jordan Rudess of Dream Theater
• Tom Schuman of Spyro Gyra
• Dave Stewart
• Watch Out For Snakes
• Oliver Tree
• Eric Troyer of ELO Part II and The Orchestra{{Cite AV media |url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XOMiufjH43I&pp=ygUWSG9uZXN0IE1lbiBFTE8gUGFydCBJSQ== |title=ELO Part 2 - Honest Men (Original UK Promo Video 1991) |date=2013-05-23 |last=elojim01 |access-date=2024-10-10 |via=YouTube}}
• will.i.am
• "Weird Al" Yankovic
• Yenny of Wonder Girls
• Edgar Winter{{cite web|work=Grantland|title=Frankenstein's Monster|first=Chuck|last=Klosterman|date=August 8, 2011|url=http://grantland.com/features/frankenstein-monster/}}
• Dongmyeong of Onewe