Kendra Smith

Kendra Smith (born 14 March 1960, San Diego, California) is an American musician who was a founding member of Dream Syndicate, a member of Opal, and later recorded as a solo artist. After one privately pressed release with Suspects in 1979, Smith formed The Dream Syndicate in 1981 with Steve Wynn, and went on to record two albums and an EP as bassist with the group before leaving in 1984 to join former Rain Parade guitarist David Roback in Rainy Day (she had worked with Roback before, providing backing vocals on the Rain Parade album Emergency Third Rail Power Trip). Rainy Day released an album and a single in 1984 before Roback and Smith became a duo in the psychedelic-tinged band Opal. Opal only released one record before they split...