Performance · Other credits

KEIKO

KEIKO is credited on 21 releases across 31 albums tracked on Gatefold, active 1983–2025 — the collector-built map of who actually made the music.

View as artist →

Photo of KEIKO

21

Pressings credited

31

Albums

5

Decades active

In collections

Biography

Keiko (c. 1976 – 12 December 2003) was a male orca captured in the Atlantic Ocean near Iceland in 1979, and widely known for his portrayal of Willy in the 1993 film Free Willy. In 1996, Warner Bros. and the International Marine Mammal Project collaborated to return Keiko to the wild. After years of being prepared for reintegration, Keiko was flown to Iceland in 1998 and in 2002, became the first captive orca to be fully released back into the ocean. On 12 December 2003, he died of pneumonia in a bay in Norway at the age of 27.

Bio from Wikipedia

Credited work

21 releases · 31 albums · active 1983–2025

  • Performance · 32
  • Other credits · 2

Studios: Redwing Studios · Studio Fontana, Milano

Frequent collaborators

  • Globe
  • TK Presents
  • Archive
  • Milly Carlucci

Around the web

See who really made the music.

Gatefold maps every producer, engineer, and player across your shelf — the credits no one else surfaces.

Start your shelf →

Free forever. Works with 10 records or 10,000.