Jamie Kent

A singer and songwriter whose music is a lively, passionate mixture of root base rock, modern folk, and mature pop, Jamie Kent is a local of Northampton, Massachusetts. Blessed in 1988, Kent was raised in children where he was subjected to an eclectic selection of music, which range from Frank Sinatra, Ella Fitzgerald, and Cab Calloway towards the Beatles and Sly & the Family members Stone. Kent’s interest for singing came into being when he auditioned for his high school’s creation of Pippin hoping of impressing a woman and discovered just how much he liked executing for an viewers. (He also constructed a mariachi music group for a college talent present that finished up getting the audience’s preferred.) After graduating from senior high school, Kent enrolled at Babson University, while also learning tone of voice at Boston’s New Britain Conservatory of Music. Kent graduated from Babson in ’09 2009, and was shortly pursuing a profession being a musician. After building himself on the neighborhood music picture, Kent self-released his initial record, Neoteny, in March 2010. Kent also constructed a backing music group, your options, which began being a trio along with his electric guitar and vocals followed by bassist Rhees Williams and multi-instrumentalist Tim Boucher. As Kent constructed his profession and his brand, he got the unusual stage of fabricating what he known as “The Collective.” While also the name of his label and posting organization, “The Collective” described several fans and followers who, in trade for contributing cash to invest in Kent’s projects, receive access to brand-new and unreleased music, goes by to his displays, official products, and the chance to provide insight on certain innovative and business decisions. Using the support from the Collective, Kent could concentrate on his musical profession full-time, and within a couple of years he was playing up to 200 displays a season. On early recordings such as for example Neoteny, Kent’s acoustic groove design recommended a stripped-down edition from the Dave Matthews Music group, but as time passes, his songwriting became even more refined and literate, and his melodies began showing the affects of modern folk and root base rock and roll. Kent’s second record, Navigation, made an appearance in 2012, and 2015 noticed the release of the five-song EP, Embers and Ashes. By this time around, Kent got relocated to Nashville, Tennessee, so that as his music got evolved, so got the Options, today offering Kent, Williams, Ryan Hommel on guitar and pedal metal, and Dan Holmes on drums. In 2016, Kent finished his third full-length record, All American Mutt. Made by Dave Brainard, the record was Kent’s initial for Road Pet Records.