Kevin Max is a maker of art.

Let's set that record straight right now. Here is a man of so many different talents and facets - including but not limited to four full-length albums and three EPs, so stylistically different that it hardly seems possible that they could have poured out of the same person; five studio albums with his former band DC Talk; four books of poetry; a memoir; a children's book; stage and film performances; live shows and spoken word collaborations?that it is often difficult not to view him as some sort of Frankenstein monster of various talents and abilities, all thrown together by some brilliantly mad scientist in an effort to create a perfect patchwork of wild talents.

But make no mistake - Kevin Max is not the creation, but the creator: a passionate musician constantly toiling away in his workshop, always pushing his music and his lyrics into new directions and higher heights. He has been heralded with titles that range from "the bad boy of Christian music" to "the next Peter Gabriel," but Kevin eschews any such stereotypes by constantly recreating himself from album to album and refusing to be pigeonholed.

Kevin, born Kevin Max Smith (he later dropped "Smith") in 1967 in Grand Rapids, Michigan, started singing when he was young. The adopted son of Max and Elaine Smith, he grew up on a farm where he rode horses and motorcycles and often sang for his family's church. It was in high school, where he sang in theatrical productions, that he began to develop his dream of singing professionally. Influenced by the voices of Bryan Ferry and Freddy Mercury, and by the lyrics of Bob Dylan and Leonard Cohen, Kevin began writing music and poetry of his own, and his passion for the art was solidified.


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