Balancing careers can be a struggle for some people, but not this week’s Indie Pick of the Week, Kendre’, who aside from acting is also pursing a career in music simultaneously.
Kendre’ began his acting career at 12-years-old after moving to Los Angeles from his hometown of Flint, Michigan.
He got his start in acting on Nickelodeon’s ‘All That’ and went on to make appearances on the shows ‘Girlfriends’ as Jabari and ‘Ned’s Declassified’ as Backpack Boy.
By 14 he setup a full-fledged studio in his room with money he had saved up from acting.
“The acting allowed me to have money as a kid to the point of putting money to the side to buy equipment for my own studio,” he said. “That kinda kept me out of trouble when I wasn’t on set, I wasn’t out on the streets.”
During his later teenage years he gradually began making music out of his room, beginning with producing and making beats followed by adding raps to the sounds he developed.
“By about 17, 18 I started getting really serious with it and started making mixtapes, messing with autotune and people really liked the way my voice sounded,” he explained in detail.
At 21-years-old his sound had evolved and he put out a song with Quincy that was very successful.
The song “Stay Awhile” made it to the Top 10 countdown on BET’s 106 and Park. Watch the video below:
Creativeness has always been one of Kendre’s strongest skills. Being in the entertainment industry has only kept that creativeness flowing.
“I just like to be creative and use that to entertain people,” he exclaimed. “Whether it’s playing a role on a movie or on a show or making a song, I want to make sure that the audience is entertained at all times.”
On his most recent single “Right Here” he shows his appreciation for one of his girl’s “nana”. Listen to it below:
Kendre’ is currently working on his next EP ‘Checkmate’ scheduled to drop this summer and will soon be releasing a video for “Right Here.”
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