Singer, songwriter, and guitarist Myles Kennedy was born Myles Richard Bass on November 27, 1969 in Boston, Massachusetts, but spent his childhood growing up in the Northwest on a farm near Spokane, Washington. Following the death of his father when Myles was four years old, his mother remarried, and he was given the Kennedy surname. In high school, Kennedy fell under the twin spell of Led Zeppelin and Marvin Gaye, and began playing the guitar at the age of 15 (he also played trumpet in his school's marching band), forming a local heavy metal band, Bittersweet, with some frien...