Keith Longbotham is a native of Plainview, Texas where he grew up playing guitar and singing for churches and civic organizations. He is a graduate of Wayland Baptist University with a BA degree in Music. While at Wayland Keith sang with the international choir and played bass guitar in the university orchestra. He was also a charter member of a touring group for the university called Spirit of America. After graduation from Wayland Keith was the minister of music at the First Baptist Church in Crosbyton, Texas for five years. He then went into full time music evangelism singing at churches all across west Texas and New Mexico.

Keith moved to Nashville, Tennessee in 1982 to join a bluegrass group at Opryland USA, a musical theme park. For the next eight years he not only entertained fans but he also attracted the attention of country music legends, Roy Acuff and Porter Wagoner. Soon he was invited to perform at the Opry as a guest of Acuff and Wagoner. He went on to perform for many other Opry shows and also appeared numerous times on the Nashville Network.

In 1984 Keith met Tim Clearly, a single adult consultant at Lifeway Christian Resources. Tim invited Keith to sing and perform at a national single adult convention at Ridgecrest, North Carolina. This led to Keith singing at churches all across the United States and Canada. It was also in 1984 that Keith was given his own show at the Nashville KOA music theatre. Today Keith still travels the country singing and performing for all types of groups. He also still perform every Thursday night at the KOA music theatre from April thru October.