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Kent Jones Biography

The American hip hop recording artist Kent Jones was born in 1983 in Tallahassee, Florida. Jones’s first exposure to music was through his local church, where he was influenced by the choir music. As a young man, he first learned to play drums, but by the time he was a teenager, he was studying piano and music theory. Although his initial interest was in the genre of jazz, after moving to Miami, Florida to pursue a career in music his focus shifted to rap and hip hop music.

After signing with Epidemic Records, Kent began to work with producers Cool & Dre on writing and recording music for his debut. After securing a major label deal with Epic Records, Jones released Tours, his debut mixtape, in the summer of 2015. The mixtape spawned Kent Jones’s breakthrough single “Don’t Mind,” which eventually rose into the top ten on the mainstream charts in the United States, but also into the top five on the R&B/hip-hop charts and all the way to the number two spot on the rap charts. The song also charted internationally, in Australia, Canada, France, Sweden, and the UK.

Kent Jones is just getting started and definitely a star on the rise and one to watch in the coming years. Jones is expected to record and release his debut album this coming year.