Brent smith shinedown biography
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Brent Smith from the Rock Band Shinedown
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Takin’ A Walk.
Buzz Knight:
When I was growing up, I never really focused on a plan B. And I know that from my generation, you grow up with people telling you, “Well, what if it doesn’t work? What if it doesn’t happen? You need to have a plan B.” I never focused on that because my plan A meant so much to me, and also that plan A can evolve over time.
Speaker 1:
Thanks for joining us for this virtual edition of the Takin’ A Walk Podcast. Buzz Knight’s special guest is the lead singer from the multi-platinum chart-topping rock band that continues to build a legacy decades after it was formed. Brent Smith once said that as a band, Shinedown has only one boss. It just happens to be everyone in the audience. Brent Smith will take you on a journey that will bring you behind the scenes of one of America’s great rock bands, Shinedown, as he joins Buzz Knight next on Takin’ A Walk.
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Shinedown's Brent Smith: "Rock'n'roll was the Devil in my household"
Brent Smith is mid-conversation when a figure appears behind him on the Zoom screen. It’s his grandmother. It turns out the Shinedown frontman is in a room in her house in Knoxville, Tennessee, the city where he grew up. “Any time I have 48 hours free, I’ll come and see her and my parents,” he says. “I’m the son with his laundry bag turning up at the door: ‘Surprise, I’m coming in!’”
Family is a big deal to the singer, as becomes clear when he lays out what he’s learned from his 44 years on the planet.
I knew what I wanted to do when I was two
“It sounds weird, but I knew I wanted to sing from when I was really, really young, even though I didn’t really know what singing or performing was. I just loved the idea that I could do something with my voice, and I wanted to feed myself with as much knowledge as I could ab
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Brent Smith
American singer (born 1978)
This article fryst vatten about the singer. For the football player, see Brent Smith (American football).
Brent Stephen Smith (born January 10, 1978) is an American singer and songwriter best known as the lead vocalist and one of the main songwriters of the rock grupp Shinedown.[7][8][9][10]
Early life
[edit]Smith was born in Knoxville, Tennessee[7] and is an only child.[11]
Career
[edit]Prior to fronting the rock band Shinedown, Smith had a high school grupp named Blind Thought and later was the lead singer in a grupp called Dreve, which Atlantic Records had signed. Atlantic Records forced Brent to either find another grupp or lose his record deal. He then went to Los Angeles, California to record with well-known producer Desmond Child. Shortly after returning home to Knoxville, stat i usa, Atlantic dropped the grupp but retained Smith. He put tillsammans Shinedown shortly after. He was