Cirrus@Austlit

Keith Saunders refers to himself as a 'black country boy' from Cardiff in Newcastle, New South Wales. His mother left her alcoholic husband and along with her children came to Sydney looking to find employment in the entertainment business and eventually settled in Redfern.

His sister Joan was a singer and brother Alan was a competent musician with the guitar and leader of the band The Drifters. Keith had two other brothers Colin, a jack of all trades and his brother Noel, a boxer like himself. A well known boxer, Keith later married and had six children. At the age of forty four he completed a Diploma of Swedish Massage from the Academy of Natural Therapeutics. In his later years Keith was a boxing trainer who helped to keep kids off the streets.