Kendi Jean & The Velvet Smokeshow is a Texas Americana band with an edgy, female-outlaw, "rock & Soul" mix of original content and covers that all get simmered in a SMOKEY sauce. Kendi is a 15-time charting songwriter grown in Fort Worth soil.  She is recognized as an Amplify 817 artist with the Fort Worth Public Library.   Kendi and her Smokeshow play all over their great state of Texas and beyond, from festivals to basement dive-bars, they have been curating their sound on stage after stage along the way.  If you like artists like Band Of Heathens, Lukas Nelson, Grace Potter & The Nocturnals, Marcus King, Chris Stapleton, and Margo Price, you will pick up what this band is throwing down.   

Kendi's rich vocals have been compared to Carrie Underwood, Janis Joplin, and Bonnie Raitt, but like any artist her sound & style is uniquely her own. 

Kendi Jean & The Velvet Smokeshow brings a performance that  is eclectic, dynamic, and just drenched in sauce.  Keep your eye on this band.