The rock band from Battle, East Sussex was first called The Lotus Eaters, but when a friend of the mother of singer/guitarist Tom Chaplin died of cancer in 1997 the formation was named after that friend: it came to be Cherry Keane, later shortened to Keane.
Cherry was not just any friend: she was something like the permanent baby-sitter of Tom Chaplin and his childhood friend (and later the pianist of Keane) Tim Rice-Oxley.
She impressed on the guys that they should always try to achieve their dreams.
After Cherry had died, it turned out she had left money to the Chaplin family; Tom also got some of it.
Chaplin: ‘I used some of the money to see me through the harder times with the music.’
A touching story.

She impressed on the guys that they should always try to achieve their dreams.
After Cherry had died, it turned out she had left money to the Chaplin family; Tom also got some of it.
Chaplin: ‘I used some of the money to see me through the harder times with the music.’
A touching story.
Active: 1997-present, GBR
Site: http://www.keanemusic.com/
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