Kent Smoke

Kent Smoke is currently working on he’s debut album to be released this year. Smoke’s career pursuits include being the guitarist in the Lira band called ‘The Love Band.” Kent Smoke has been working with Lira since 2011 and worked on 2 award winning DVD releases “The Captured Tour” and “First Decade.” Lira has had many accomplishments being a multi platinum-selling artist who has toured most parts of the world including the USA where she also was invited to perform at the Ambassadors Inaugural Ball for the inauguration of President Barrack Obama in 2012. Kent’s sound is eclectic with hints of RnB, Jazz, Old School and South Arfican House. With influences such as Ernie Smith, Jonathan Butler, John Mayer, Lira, Chris Brown to Temptations, Bruno Mars, he has a unique sound that expresses positive messages.

Kenton Lee Windvogel (born January 9th 1984) is a South African award winning singer/songwriter, guitarist and producer. He was born in Kwa-Zulu Natal and raised on the coastlines of Durban. He attended Natal Technikon where he studied music for a year then relocated to Johannesburg where he worked bands such as Dawnay, Lira (current guitarist), Sasha-Lee Davids, Lloyd Cele, Denim, among others. Having been in the music industry for over a decade, he has released two albums with RnB groups Soulstone (‘Music Love Truth’) and Urban Reign (‘When It Rains It Pours’) and was signed to Essential Music, Sting Music and Electromode. Soulstone was known for the no. 1 hit “Now That Your Love Has Gone” and Urban Reign was nominated for Best Urban Pop at the SAMA‘s (South African Music Awards). Urban Reign also won ‘Most Gifted RnB Video at the Channel O Music Video Awards in 2010 for the song “Addicted.”