Patricia Anne Keenan (28 September 1968 – 14 January 2011) was an English musician and singer. She was the lead vocalist and founding member of the electronic band Broadcast, which she formed in 1995. The band released a total of five studio albums, including The Noise Made by People (2000), Haha Sound (2003) and Tender Buttons (2005), and earned a cult following.

Keenan died unexpectedly in January 2011 of pneumonia, shortly after she had contracted swine flu while completing a tour of Australia with Broadcast.

Patricia Anne Keenan was born in Winson Green, a multicultural inner-city area in west Birmingham, England. She had two brothers, Malcolm and John, and two sisters, Maxine and Barbara. She was raised by her mother Zena, who was a sex worker: "I have got no problem with people knowing me or any personal details about myself," Keenan commented. "I have had a crazy life: I was brought up by a prostitute."

Keenan attended Archbishop Grimshaw Roman Catholic school, presently known as John Henry Newman Catholic school. She worked a range of catering jobs after school until at the age of 21 when she moved to Moseley, a bohemian enclave. She studied Creative Writing at Birmingham University while working on her music career.

Soon after moving to Moseley, Keenan formed a band called KOB in 1992 with local Solihull musicians Jude Owens and Adrian Baker. Some time in 1993, the group became a duo named Hayward Winters after Baker left. Keenan subsequently met James Cargill at a 1960s psychedelic revival club who then played bass for Hayward Winters. Soon after, the two of them formed a relationship over their shared interest and formed an improv band, Pan Am Flight Bag. The band was short-lived, only performing two gigs before they reformed in 1996 as Broadcast, which included guitarist Tim Felton, drummer Steve Perkins, and keyboardist Roj Stevens.

With Broadcast, Keenan released a total of five studio albums, including The Noise Made by People (2000), Haha Sound (2003) and Tender Buttons (2005); Keenan wrote the latter while her father was dying of cancer. In 2009 the group released a collaborative album Broadcast and The Focus Group Investigate Witch Cults of the Radio Age, with The Focus Group, the music project of graphic designer Julian House (who also designed all of Broadcast's album sleeves).

Keenan lived in and near Birmingham throughout her life, and her music career was based there. In an interview with Billboard, she said: "There's really a down tone in Birmingham. People here definitely underplay themselves. There's definitely a lack of confidence, and almost a resignation and defeatism among musicians here."

Keenan possessed an alto vocal range. Music critics noted Keenan's vocals as "childlike" and "alluringly aloof", often "woven within squishy analog synths, pastoral melodies and mod-style rhythms." In a review published in Spin in 2001, Keenan's vocals and instrumentation alongside bandmate James Cargill were likened to being "stuck in a time warp—the sound of '70s wife-swapping parties with beanbags and unhappy children serving sausages on sticks". Keenan often explored cut-up lyric techniques, inspired partly by her interest in the occult.