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Kenny was born in Glace Bay NS on Nov 17th1966, the only music he recalls listening to at a young

age was country music. He remembers listening to his dad playing guitar and singing with his buddies

at weekend kitchen parties. Watching his dad play really was his first influence in music. Other big

influences in his life were to follow with country artist's such as Buck Owens and Charley Pride as well

as Elvis Presley, Roy Orbison and the Eagles.

In 1983 he signed a 2 year contract with CBC radio to record songs for one of there radio programs.

He also started to do various local cable TV specials and was also a regular performer with Kay

Batherson's dancers during their Dockside Ceilidh shows at Marine Atlantic in North Sydney and was

one of their favourite performers. Kenny has also done performances on Breakfast Television as well as

the Christmas Daddies Telethon. He started to do some song writing in the early part of the 90's and was

one of the busiest performers in the club circuit from 1992 till around 1997 with a band called Wild

Country. In the summer of 1996 he released his first single entitled "Cold Ungrateful Heart" which

made the Cape Breton country radio top 40 as well as their year end review. Kenny was one of the only

artist to hold down a chart position other then the Rankin' s and the song "Cold Ungrateful Heart" was

Cape Breton's Most requested song that summer.

Kenny's country music exposure took off when he won a local country radio contest in 1997 and with

the prize money he won recorded a song he wrote called "Wish You Were Still Mine "﻿ and

became a local hit and made Cape Breton country radio top 40 and year end review for 1997.

In August of 1998 both tracks were included on Kenny's first full length album titled Raised On Country.

In the fall of 2000 Kenny went back into Lakewind Sound to record two Christmas songs one original

entitled “If I Can't Have You For Christmas” and the Roger Miller classic “Old Toy Trains”.

which was produced by Fred Lavery and engineered by Mike Shepard.

In 2011 Kenny went back into the studio once again to record a song titled "Mom And Dad"

and after talking with producer Fred Lavery decided to do a new album titled “ Better Days Ahead”.

Kenny began speaking with Management companies in Nashville and was able to score an album deal

with TMG. The album was released in 2014 on the TMG label. The track The Rose Is For Today became a Cape Breton hit and received very high reviews from TMG. Kenny also received a letter from country music legend Charley Pride complimenting him on his voice and his version of the song.

His words exactly were “I like your voice enjoyed the album and you did

a good job on “The Rose is For Today“

TMG has re- released Raised on Country on their label on October 27th 2015. The album is now available nationwide in the United States as well as other world markets.The Lakewind Sound Album has Cape Breton hands are all over it.

Kenny has been performing for over 35