Joseph David Keery, best known as Joe Keery, was born on April 24 1992, in Newburyport, Massachusetts. He is an American actor and musician.

He began playing music in his teens after co-opting his sister’s guitar, but it was during his college years at DePaul University in Chicago that he formed his first band and began to seriously pursue music.

Established in 2014, that band was (

Post Animal

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Post Animal is a psychedelic rock band from Chicago, Illinois. The band is composed of Dalton Allison, Jake Hirshland, Javi Reyes, Wesley Toledo, and Matt Williams. Joe Keery remains an inactive member of the band, but was 'a vital role in Post Animal and the creation of every musical release ...thus far, including his vocals and guitar work on When I Think of You in a Castle' (via a press release from the band).

), the heavy psych rock outfit that went on to release a self-titled EP and two subsequent albums via Polyvinyl. They also toured with artists like Twin Peaks, Wavves and Cage The Elephant and played a number of US festivals.

Joe, who you may also recognize from the show “Stranger Things,” created by the Duffer brothers Matt and Ross, where he play “Steve Harrington”.

However, he left the group before the release of their first album. In his own words, “It’s important to disassociate Steve from Stranger Things to the band because I think it will eventually hurt the band. Those guys are such talented musicians… I think it’s important that they’re hitting the pavement for a while and making a name for themselves and it’s not necessarily associated with Stranger Things.”

During July of 2019, he released the single “Roddy”, with no announcement or fanfare, Keery’s solo-project Djo was unveiled not with a single, but a lush, self-reflective, layered 12 track full-length album titled Twenty Twenty.