Nashville: Kendi Jean & 20 West

Roger the Wild Child Show

On this episode of Roger the Wild Child Show: Nashville edition, we are joined by singer/songwriter, Kendi Jean, and country music group, 20 West!

KENDI JEAN

Kendi Jean is a Fort Worth based emerging Americana artist who jumped in boots-first to the Texas Music scene in 2020, merging her Motown roots from Detroit with her Cowtown Boots from here in Funky-town. Though most of Kendi's first released music falls straight into the "Texas Country" category, this soul-sister is just fine with blurring lines of music genres. "I really don't write music to fit into any one box, I write what comes from my heart and then I figure it all the labels for it only when I have to, " says Kendi. Her single "Your Eyes Are Lyin'" charted in the top 50 on the Texas Country Music Chart & spent Two weeks at NUMBER 1 on the Texas internet Radio Chart! Kendi has now seen 14of her songs onto the Texas charts since her debut, A Real Good handful, released in April of 2020.

This new-to-the-scene Singer-Songwriter may just be getting started, but she has definitely made some footprints in a short amount of time.

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20 WEST

20 West is a Texas Country band based in Fort Worth, Tx, and was founded by Shawn Fitzgerald and Pete Franco. Within the first week together, they had their first song and first single, Bringing Me Back Home written and recorded. A second song, Just Go Away, was written a day later and also recorded. Then, after seeing what they had created, they decided to form the band itself in 2022.

The name 20 West was decided upon after singer Shawn was driving home from seeing good friend Rachel Stacy play at the White Elephant one night. He lived at the time off of I-20 West. He immediately texted Pete that he found the right name for the band. And so it began.

Next, Greg Kramer was added on drums, and Dale Sprankle was added on bass. The band then started back recording at Tonal Recording Studios with veteran producer Cris Hunter Marshall where the first batch of songs were also recorded.

The band released their second single, Baby Go Crazy worldwide on July 22nd. It spent two weeks on the CDTEX top ten most downloaded songs and is still doing well.

The next, and last batch of songs to round out the upcoming EP Bringing Me Back Home were recorded in January for a June 2nd release.

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