Artist description Ladies & Gentlemen ..Introducing......KYNT, vocal assassin, model, choreographer, producer, ....SUPERSTAR! Hailing from New Orleans, Louisiana.. the party capital of the world, KYNT is the soon to be newest multi-platinum export from New Orleans. The New KYNT album "Introducing...KYNT!" is now available!!

Music Style Dance/House, Pop, Electronica, R&B, Drum & Bass,& Jazz

Musical Influences Martha Wash, Grace Jones, Phyllis Hyman, NWA, Aaron Neville, The Time, Gino Vanneli, George Michael, Janet & Michael Jackson, Clivilles & Cole, Jimmy Jam & Terry Lewis, Byron Stingily,Earth, Wind & Fire, Prince,Five Star,Sylvester,Madonna, Donny Hathaway, Pepper Mashay, Lady Kier

Similar Artists Very original sound: more influences - DamienDame,Steve Reich,BasementBoys, BJORK, Soul II Soul, Todd Terry, Armand Van Helden, Frankie Knuckles, Plaid, Boards of Canada, Tricky, QUEEN, Aphex Twin

Artist History Kynt lights up the stage with his paint and pyrotechnics at a Skin party. Next year, it's off to Europe to set the world on fire. He's got legs written by Luke Kummer photos by Kristy May and Efrain Cruz In this fleeting instant, Kynt appears frozen by the rapid-firing flashbulb of a strobe light. He's on stage performing at the "Skin" party put on by Fat Black Pussy Cat Productions in a studio home in the Warehouse District. In splinters of a second, he will be reincarnated in a somewhat different constitution by the next lightning burst. The music he is singing with, the beat he has created, urges him to move as quickly as sound. He could be anything next, or he could be nothing at all. This is the first time I have watched Kynt perform. I'm impressed by his stirring vocals, his graceful poise and natural rhythm, the network of bulging veins making his forearms look like bas-relief sculptures, the 22nd century elegance of his appearance. I'm surprised by the originality of Kynt's sound. I'm wondering whether he will make it really big. I'm considering that he could become hugely famous. Late in the evening, the man known in university records as Kenneth Bryan answers the door of his graduate school dorm room in Cabra Hall. He's wearing a wife-beater and midnight-blue nylon warm-up pants. His hair is wrapped in a black bandanna and, up close, I notice the delicate length of his dark eyelashes that punctuate all the expressiveness in his big sapphire eyes. "Yes, my eyelashes are real," he says. I think about questioning the color of his eyes but don't go there. "It took a long time to learn to be confident," Kynt says once we're inside. "Sometimes you have a revelation. I figured out that if I really wanted to make it in this business I would have to make that choice and then do anything necessary to get there - sacrifice money, food, time, friends ... " "You've paid your dues?" "Believe me." And after a while of listening to his story, I do. YOU GOTTA DANCE LIKE MICHAEL! Kynt was born 24 years ago in the city with that often-ironic appellation, "the Big Easy." His Creole grandmother raised him in a devout and strict Jehovah's Witness household. Forbidden to play with the other children in his Uptown neighborhood, Kynt passed the time beside his grandma's record player. He sat for hours on end mimicking the sounds emanating from the dizzying black vinyl and moving to their compelling beats. He memorized the songs of Smokey Robinson, Al Green, Jackie Wilson, Phyllis Hymen and the Jacksons. "When my cousins would come over, they'd push all the tables into a stage and they'd cry, 'You gotta' dance like Michael.' I'd be moonwalkin' and breakdancing on the tables." Kynt's grandmother died when he was 7, and he was sent to live with his mother. After years of what he describes as neglect and abuse - and following his second suicide attempt - he was sent to a foster family. "At the hospital they asked me, 'Do you want to go back [home]?' And I said no." Kynt moved around a lot during his foster care days, which inspired his pursuit of a master's degree in religious studies at Loyola. "Each family that I was with baptized me in their religion. As a kid it was hard for me never understanding [which belief system] was right. I always felt confused. But I think it was good at the same time because I got to see how people use different religions in different environments as ways to cope with their lives. It created a great interest for religion in me and a deep desire to investigate [religion] for myself." When he was 13, Kynt moved to Father Flanagan's Boys Town of New Orleans home for abused and troubled children. Once settled, Kynt laid the groundwork for future musical endeavors. "I became a drum major for my high school marching band. The band director noticed me and let me do the half-time choreography for the football games. I was also one of the lead voices in the chorus at school." One night in ninth grade Kynt sneaked out of Boys Town and explored the New Orleans dance club circuit. An enticing and vivid new landscape opened up before him. "Imagine," he says, "I was raised a Jehovah's Witness, and I was never exposed to any of this. I had never been downtown." Kynt fell in love with the powerful dance music blaring from the exotic blacklight techno paradises. Before he was 14, he was donning makeup and 8-inch platforms and hitting the dance clubs and raves every night. There was another allure to the club scene besides music, Kynt says. "I used to always worry what people thought of me - that I was too loose, or too sassy, or that I had an effeminate voice. But [at the clubs] I didn't have to worry. It's where I started to accept myself for who I am, and I became happier for it." The music was a catalyst for his creative blossoming, Kynt says. "I was exposed to so much music there - Martha Walsh, C&C Music Factory, Willie Ninja, Dee Lite and Grace Jones. It was incredible for me. A lot of people go to raves and think it's all about drugs. But it's the music. It's so loud, so clear, and so good! You can feel it. I just loved the music so much." He experimented with new ways to dance and adapted the styles of movement and vocal improvisation he found in the clubs to his own. It wasn't long before he learned how to command an audience. Kynt talks of a predominantly black, gay nightclub called Club Lexus that he says had the best music anywhere. "That's where music used to be music ... and I mean it was buck wild in there, too. I had never seen people in drag before. The DJs would get together and have freestyle sessions where they would just spin their tightest beats and there I'd be, singing on stage and everybody would be dancing their asses off." Kynt's teeth stream gleaming streaks as he smiles and shakes his head in rememory. By 1992 Kynt was singing background vocals for fellow rising stars Davell Crawford, who is something of a Hammond B-3 organ extraordinaire, and R&B singer Raymond Miles. He also began dancing for rap artist Warren Maze. One night at the clubs, Kynt was shocked to meet and speak with dance music production legends Jam & Lewis. "That conversation really inspired me because I looked up to them a lot. But they were just really down to earth and encouraged me. They were like, 'Make a demo and send it to this address.'" Kynt began saving his $5-a-week allowance from Boys Town to buy recording time at a studio. "I was so shocked that I could have a career in music," he says. Enamored by the fast times of the clubs and enticed by the prospect of success in the music industry, Kynt's ability to concentrate on school gradually waned. Despite a full scholarship, he dropped out of the University of New Orleans after his first year. Without a dorm room and too old for Boys Town, Kynt spent the next three years living on the streets, sleeping on benches and underneath tables. Every night he found rejuvenation in music. "It was an education in itself," he says. MOVING ON UP "One day it just all came together," Kynt says of his first hit song, "Day After Day." "It was just an ecclection of everything that was going on in my life, not conforming to what people wanted to impose on me, their values, their morals. ... 'Day after Day' is about me realizing that I was living the life I wanted to live - going out every single night and dancing until daybreak and not giving a damn about what people thought of me." Kynt decided the best way to get serious about pursuing his dreams in music was to first return to school. He enrolled as a voice major at Loyola University. After some discouragement from the Music Department, he switched his focus to ballet. "Being an inner-city male who grew up in foster homes, I was never introduced to ballet. I needed a class, and I looked at the course bulletin and thought, 'Oh, that will be easy.'" He soon learned otherwise. "It is an extremely athletic and extremely difficult discipline. After my first semester, I wanted to quit." Instead, Kynt forced himself to excel. "I convinced myself that it would make me a better dancer. I started taking all the ballet courses I could, showing up 15 minutes early to class. At the end of the day my body hurt so much that sometimes I wanted to cry." It didn't take long for Kynt to be among the premier dancers in the program. He was awarded again with a full scholarship. Since then, he has expanded his repertoire to include tap, jazz and modern dance. Recently, he choreographed and performed innovative pieces for Loyola's Spring and Fall Ballet Concerts. The Chinese food Kynt ordered arrives and we take a break to crack open a canister of egg drop soup. I peruse through his extensive collection of kung fu films. Kynt has adapted some of their choreography for the music video he is shooting. Kynt rotates his wrists a quarter turn and shattering cracks resound up his arms. I look at his swollen forearms with their pipeline veins and ask him if he lifts weights. "No. That's ballet. It tones everything. It has made my dancing much more complete and really has taught me how to concentrate intensely. Ballet is like fine tuning for dancers." Around the time he was emerging as a serious ballet dancer, Kynt also made it into the studio and put together the master tapes of "Day After Day." "I would go around to all of the clubs and beg the DJs to play it. Toward my junior year I was on the top 10 dance singles [chart] locally." When Kynt found out about MP3s, his career really began to take off. In addition to collecting a cut of the profit from the music he sold online, Kynt found an immensely larger audience. "It's amazing what you can do when you upload your music to the Internet. I started receiving e-mails from all over saying, 'I want to remix you' and 'I want to produce you.'" After spending two months around the top of the MP3 dance charts, Kynt signed some of his songs with the French label Parisonic. They flew him to Paris to perform at Le Stic, a premiere Parisian dance club. Because of the positive feedback he received, Kynt plans to move overseas next year. "They love dance music in Europe. I was treated like a star." What else is on Kynt's table besides graduate school, four hours of ballet per day, being a member of three dance companies, shooting a music video and working on his third full-length album? Kynt headlines regularly at Tipitina's and the House of Blues. He works on remixing old material, designs all his own costumes and is doing some very revealing modeling for an upcoming calendar. He also just signed some songs to Roy Davis Jr.'s label, Undaground Therapy Muzik. Not bad for keeping busy. It's an exciting time for Kynt and, despite all the opportunities opening up to him, he's keeping a cool head. "I know where I came from and that gives me a sense of self. I just stay true to that and take everything in stride." THE FUTURE The warm smells of filŽ and fried chicken waft through the kitchen door as we take our seats inside Zachary's Creole Restaurant on Oak Street. It's half past noon and Kynt's got a gig at House of Blues later on. Next to Kynt is Greg, one of his producers. After lunch, they're going to order the tracks for his show. In front of each of us is a big steaming bowl of seafood gumbo, crab legs escaping over the rim. I'm trying to ask Kynt a few last questions before I see him onstage tonight. We all take a spoonful to our mouths. I chew, swallow and pull some kind of antennae from between my incisors. I ask Kynt, the only authentic Creole culture among the three of us, "How's the gumbo?" Kynt says, "This is the best seafood gumbo I've had in a long time. It's how my grandmother used to make it when I was little. It was the best thing on this earth. That and her pralines, my God they were good." "Kynt," I say as I reach for a piece of hot crumbly cornbread, "whenever I see you, or talk to you, or watch you on stage, you always look very composed and very confident of what you're doing. When's the last time you were afraid?" "I'm afraid all the time, aren't we all. But I can't let that fear get in the way of me being myself." "How about the way things are going, whether they're moving too fast or too slow, does that ever scare you?" "No. ... No, because I planned it. I plan all of my artistic actions. I make sure I know exactly where I'm going and feel my way through to get there." "Are you going to be famous?" "I don't look for the fame. I just like creating. The fun part for me is just seeing my dreams come true, watching what I had envisioned become real."

Group Members KYNT Co-Producers: KYNT, Serious Bass, Michael Lynskey, Seth Koen, CZIBOR, Josh Eustis, G Burgess, Ron Snyder, Purkinje, Scape, & Modern Inhazers. Photography by: Harold Baquet & Jessica Navey

Instruments Producer, Vocalist, Arranger, Writer, Composer, Performer

Albums Kynt:Day After Day-E.P, Kynt:Make Your Ears Bleed-E.P, Force Majeure for Act Up Paris-House Collection Vol. I feat Kynt, Kynt: Introdicing...Kynt!, Kynt: Chelsea-E.P, Kynt: Don't You Know-E.P

Press Reviews "Smooth Euro-Dance featuring textured male vocals could inspire crowds to Vogue. Strong club rhythms and layered lyrics about love and beauty sound like a collaboration between Prince, Madonna and RuPaul"-Listen.com"One of the best house vocalist on the scene"-Switch Magazine"Powerful & innovative vocals that mesmerize the harmonic barrier...incredible technique. Diva!! Kynt will become a household name!"- FLY FM.Net "Love the harmony that follows right in with the terrific lead singer. Gotta listen to the voice that is held up with a good strong set of instruments. This person is going to go places with this voice"-Times 10 Radio Magazine. This artist from the United states of America is brilliant at his work. Not only does he create good garage music, he is also a choreographer, a model and a vocalist, as heard on all his tracks. Garage music is getting very popular in the music industry, the perfect timing for a hard working artists as Kynt. His music in the hands of a decent record label would be appreciated by clubbers, DJs and any individual that enjoys Garage music. Most of the songs in his album "Introducing. Kynt" could get to the top 10 in the UK's charts without a doubt. My duty is to share good music with my fellow Gibraltarians, so check out www.mp3.com/kynt and listen to his great music.

Additional Info You can also find great Kynt music at http://www.besonic.com/KYNT

Location New Orleans, Louisiana - USA

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