Brent Smith
Brent Smith was born in Knoxville, Tennessee, United States on January 10th, 1978 and is the Rock Singer. At the age of 46, Brent Smith biography, profession, age, height, weight, eye color, hair color, build, measurements, education, career, dating/affair, family, news updates, songs, and networth are available.
At 46 years old, Brent Smith has this physical status:
Brent Stephen Smith (born January 10, 1978) is an American singer, songwriter, and musician best known as the band's lead vocalist.
Early life
Smith was born in Knoxville, Tennessee, and is the sole child.
Personal life
Smith has a son, Lyric Santana Smith, with his ex-fiancé, Ashley Smith Marshall. Smith struggled with heroin use and weight management for years. Smith eventually shed weight through exercise and a healthier diet, which included quitting drinking.
Smith claims that Teresa, his son's ex-girlfriend, and his followers inspired him to lose weight and become healthier.
Career
Smith had a high school band called Blind Thought and later was the lead singer in a band called Dreve, which Atlantic Records had signed. Brent Brent was compelled by Atlantic Records to find another band or lose his license. Desmond Child, a well-known producer, then moved to Los Angeles, California, to record with him. Atlantic dropped the band shortly after returning home to Knoxville, Tennessee, but retained Smith. Shinedown came shortly after. Atlantic Records gave him a developmental deal right away. In 2001, Smith moved to Jacksonville, Florida, and started working on the project.
Brad Stewart, a local Jacksonville music producer Pete Thornton, was the first person he recruited. Smith and Stewart began recording demos together in a small local studio, where their boss, guitarist Jasin Todd, was invited to speak with her fiancé, who was incorporated as the third person. Drummer Barry Kerch, the band's seventh drummer, had auditioned for the position, was voted out of the original lineup. The four performers collaborated on demos and submitted their work-in-progress video to Atlantic, who accepted the work and released a full-length album. Leave a Whisper, the band's debut album, was released on May 27, 2003. The album was eventually certified platinum by the Royal Institute of British Architects in the United States, indicating that it had more than one million units. Shinedown has since released six more studio albums: Us and Them (2005), The Sound of Madness (2008), Amaryllis (2006), Threat to Survivor (2006), and Planet Zero (2022). Smith & Myers, acoustic duo, started in 2014 with Smith and Zach Myers.
In early 2016, the band began recording their sixth album, as they announced in an interview with Wes Styles of the 97.7 WQLZ radio station. Attention Attention, a collection of hits, was released on May 4, 2018. "Devil," the album's first single, was released on March 7, 2018. Brent was given a key to Knox County by former wrestler and current Knox County Mayor Glenn Jacobs on August 28th, 2022.