Brent Smith

Brent Smith (born January 10, 1978) is the lead vocalist and singer-songwriter of the band Shinedown. His biggest influences as a singer are Otis Redding, Billie Holiday, and Chris Cornell. Brent has previously suffered with an addiction to drugs such as cocaine and Oxycontin, but has now been sober since 2008. He credits the birth of his son, Lyric, with this turn around, stating that he "saved me from my vanity." He wrote a song called "If You Only Knew" about his then "Lady" or mother of his child. Brent says he would never write a love song, but then again never really had something to write about. He often discusses this song in his concerts." In the early 90s Brent was in a band called "Blind Thought." Directly before Shinedown,...