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Finding beauty in the dissonance.

Maynard James Keenan

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Maynard James Keenan
Age: 60
Born: 1964
Born: April 17
Composer
Guitarist
Musician
Record Producer
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Ravenna
Ohio
James Herbert Keenan
Beauty
Dissonance
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