A singer and songwriter whose music is a lively, passionate mix of roots rock, contemporary folk, and mature pop, Jamie Kent is a native of Northampton, Massachusetts. Born in 1988, Kent grew up in a household where he was exposed to an eclectic variety of music, ranging from Frank Sinatra, Ella Fitzgerald, and Cab Calloway to the Beatles and Sly & the Family Stone. Kent's passion for singing came about when he auditioned for his high school's production of Pippin in hopes of impressing a girl and discovered how much he enjoyed performing for an audience. (He also assembled a ...