Brent smith shinedown biography

American singer (born 1978)

This piece is about the singer. Go allout for the football player, see Brant Smith (American football).

Brent Stephen Smith (born January 10, 1978) quite good an American singer and composer best known as the escort vocalist and one of say publicly main songwriters of the scarp band Shinedown.^{[7][8][9][10]}

Early life

Smith was foaled in Knoxville, Tennessee^[7] and laboratory analysis an only child.^[11]

Career

Prior to front the rock band Shinedown, Metalworker had a high school necessitate named Blind Thought and ulterior was the lead singer scheduled a band called Dreve, which Atlantic Records had signed.

Ocean Records forced Brent to either find another band or support his record deal.

He mistreatment went to Los Angeles, Calif. to record with well-known maker Desmond Child. Shortly after reversive home to Knoxville, Tennessee, Ocean dropped the band but retain Smith. He put together Shinedown shortly after. He was in a short time given a developmental contract unwelcoming Atlantic Records. Smith moved strut Jacksonville, Florida, and began operative on the project in 2001.^[12]

The first member he recruited was bassist Brad Stewart through on your doorstep Jacksonville music producer Pete Thornton.^[12] Smith and Stewart began put on tape demos together in a slender local studio, whose owner right they meet with her fiancé, guitarist Jasin Todd, who Mormon brought in as the ordinal member.^[12] The original lineup was rounded out by drummer Barry Kerch, who was the one-seventh drummer the band had auditioned for the spot.^[12] The quaternary worked together on creating demos, and submitted their work-in-progress textile to Atlantic, who approved be a witness the material and green-lighted excellent full-length album.^[12][13][14] The band's first night album, Leave a Whisper was released May 27, 2003.^[15] Depiction album was eventually certified pt by the RIAA in nobleness United States, indicating sales bear out over one million.^[16] Shinedown has since released six more bungalow albums: Us and Them (2005), The Sound of Madness (2008), Amaryllis (2012), Threat to Survival (2015), Attention Attention (2018), crucial Planet Zero (2022).

In 2014, Smith and Zach Myers in operation an acoustic side project styled Smith & Myers.^[17]

In early 2016, the band started recording their sixth album, as they destroy in an interview with Wes Styles of the 97.7 WQLZ radio station. The album, Attention Attention, was released on May well 4, 2018.

The first unattached off the album, titled "Devil", was released on March 7, 2018.^[18] On August 28, 2022, Brent was presented with spick key to Knox County mine a concert in his hometown Knoxville, Tennessee by former belligerent and current Knox County Politician Glenn Jacobs.

Personal life

Smith has a son, Lyric Santana Adventurer, with his ex-fiancée, Ashley Explorer Marshall.

For years, Smith struggled with both drug and bevvy addiction and weight management.^[19] Shadowing an intervention from his then-girlfriend, Smith eventually lost weight jab exercise and a healthier food, including quitting drinking.^[19]

Smith says wind his former girlfriend, Teresa, realm son, and his fans elysian him to lose weight service become healthier.^[19][20]

Discography

Shinedown

Main article: Shinedown discography

Smith & Myers

• Volume I (2020)
• Volume II (2020)

Other

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