Already making his mark on the worldwide R&B scene in the past few years, Kennyon Brown no doubt is destined for massive things in no time. Born in Auckland, New Zealand with his family of Samoan descent - Brown spent the teenage years of his life amongst Southern Californian cities Long Beach and Anaheim re-locating to Sydney as a young adult. Making his mark on the local R&B scene with the track titled “Cocaine” featuring long-time friend William Singe, Kennyon Brown appeared on various singles with frequent collaborator(s) Fortafy and Donell Lewis throughout early 2015 gaining a bigger fanbase by the week.
This led to Brown’s break through single “All On Me” featuring Fortafy being released in September, 2015 which was added to high rotation on The Edge 96.1 (Australia) and MaiFm (NZ) and hit 1 million views on the music video in a matter of months. Due to the success of this single, the two paired up to release “Your Body” with momentous success and the audio on YouTube is well over 10 million streams to date.
If touring AU & NZ performing over 30+ shows in 2016 and dropping countless bangers throughout the year wasn’t enough, Kennyon Brown embarked on his debut European tour headlining over 10+ shows with frequent collaborator Donell Lewis and together they released “Legooo” in April 2017. ‘Legooo’ was an enormous success for the independent pair topping the NZ Heatseeker album charts for 2 weeks straight and spawned the single “Whine 4 Me” which topped the urban and airplay charts in Germany. Soaring off this success Kennyon Brown along with Donell Lewis and good friend DJ Noiz embarked on a run of headline tours throughout Australia and New Zealand over the course of 2017 and dropped their reggae inspired R&B numbers “Morning Ride” and “She Mad She Angry”, raking up over 5 million views in under a year between both, which now have a combination of 30 million streams for both records.
Pushing boundaries in R&B and Reggae, Kennyon Brown made his debut USA and Hawaii tour in March 2018 alongside fellow collaborators Donell Lewis and DJ Noiz selling out shows in San Jose, Los Angeles, Seattle, Salt Lake City and Las Vegas – and were invited to perform on selected shows with Missouri Reggae / R&B star Spawnbreezie. In late 2018, Brown returned back to Australia and hit the road, completing his most successful year to date headlining over 40 dates across Australia and New Zealand. His sophomore headline USA tour embarked for the month of March 2019 and was met with strong success headlining shows in California, Utah, Arizona, Nevada Oregon and Washington State to a handful of sold out audiences in each state. Brown has since returned home and announced his inclusion in the inaugural "Future Nesian Festival".
Outside of this, Brown has not only released an array of collaborations with DJ Noiz and Donell Lewis but Brown recently went on to release his highly antipcated debut solo EP titled "Out The Blue" in March 2020, with 2 sold out headline launch parties in Sydney Australia on "Glass Island" cruise over Sydney Harbour. Following the COVID pandemic and lack of touring in 2020, Kennyon linked up with EDM household name Joel Fletcher and released 2 collab effort(s) titled "Vibe" and "Changes", which have since amassed over 20 million streams combined.
Onwards and upwards since then, Kennyon has had a super impressive last few years, with multiple Australia and NZ tours plus 2 huge USA tours off the back of his own solo success with his debut solo project "Kenny Hendrix" and penning hit records such as Beretta, Yodelay, Lady Love, Amelia, Come My Way, Do Dat and a stack of others for younger sister Bina Butta and cousin DJ Noiz. Entering a new world of fame for the R&B / Island icon, his recent key release "Island Girl" featuring Donell Lewis and DJ Noiz, has an astounding 18 million streams in only 1 Year. So be on the look out for a huge 2024 for this young and eager musician.
