Keiko
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
80 releases · 31 albums · active 1983–2025
- Performance · 117
- Other credits · 36
Studios: Tetsuya Komuro Sequence · Record Plant, Los Angeles · Rojam Studio · Sony Music Studios, Los Angeles
Frequent collaborators
- Globe
- TRF
- KCO
- TK Presents
- Madeth Gray'll
- Sobut
- Archive
- Milly Carlucci