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Kenton Benjamin Klassen

Be a Light in Dark Places

About Me

Hey everyone, I have been singing in choirs since Grade 2. I love to sing..and sing on stage in huge musical's such as Les Miserables and Anne of Green Gables etc. I have been taught by some very admirable instructors and am now in a Visual and Performing Arts program at the Fort McMurray, Alberta's community college www.keyano.ca. I am an acting student and a musician. Right now I am getting a half hour professional voice instruction a week and will be performing a classical or musical piece a week in front of a body of students in a Master Class. I also play guitar. I have been trained in private lessons for a number of years by Dale Fortier, a folk guitar musician/teacher, as well as a country/rock teacher, as well as a Metal Shredding instructor by the name of TONY, who now plays in an Iron Maiden Tribute Band. I know very basic theory and am alright at sight-reading. I plan on being in a band at some point but I am very particular as to who it is with. I look at people's lives and personalities more than at their skill with an instrument. I love anything from Iron Maiden to Killswitch Engage to City and Colour and Dashboard Confessional. I play guitar with some incrediblemusicians and live and breathe music on many types of stages. I am very open minded musically, yet very picky. I own my own business through www.acncanada.ca and have payed for all my schooling so far on scholarship. My best subjects have always been English, Social Studies, History, Phys. Ed., Drama, Music. I have won awards in some of those. Dramatically I have been trained by the Alberta Improv Head: K Towsley and am now learning vocal lessons from L Glover and taking Voice and Speech as well as Acting under D Abel. I plan to be living in southern Alberta in the fall hopefully attending www.rosebudschoolofthearts.com if business things go well enough. I love Jesus Christ and am a follower of him, however I do not believe in a lot of the 'modern churches' where Tradition and Rules take over the meaning of the Bible. I am also EXTREMELY RANDOM and love to have a lot of fun....all of the time....which I have been told does drain some people. I have instructed children in Wakeboarding, I Snowboard, try to Skateboard, and love to talk...or sing...or scream. I also read a lot and am somewhat obsessed with Animals, Cars, Trucks, Boats, Mountains, Sunsets, and very very very nice/and extremely good-looking girls! Please drop me a line so I can check YOU out!!!-KENTON B. KLASSENa.k.a. Ashon Kutcher/Taj Mahal/George Merry/Kitty Klassen/Kentonio www.myspace.com/bealightindarkplaces P.S. I am 19 and weigh 160 lbs, stronger and faster than I look, and more confident that I should be! .... .... Ladies?? JK
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Member Since: 12/29/2006
Band Website: myspace.com/bealightindarkplaces
Band Members: Kenton B. Klassen -- Every InstrumentKentonio -- Every vocal note produced(except if I get guest ppl lol HARRISON, JOSH, YARKIE, TYLER COLLINS, KIM GREENWOOD, etc I will hunt you down!)Looking for others for DOWN THE ROAD!
Influences: Iron Maiden Killswitch Engage Norma Jean In Flames Underoath As I Lay Dying The Chariot The Used Alexisonfire Blink-182 Angels and Airwaves Boxcar Racer Dashboard Confessional Emery Mae Jack Johnson Jimi Hendrix Dan Gillies Tyler Collins Dale Fortier Copeland The Recieving End of Sirens MXPX Saosin Circa Survive The Bleeding Alarm John Mayer Goo Goo Dolls Incubus Our Lady Peace Delirious? David Crowder Band Ari Neufeld Coheed and Cambria Matthew Good Brent Shaitel Johnny Cash Nat King Cole Michael Bublei Val Gondek Bert McKracken Tom Delonge Mike Herrera...I could go ALL NIGHT
Sounds Like: A large crocidile chomping down upon a weak helpless bird, mixed with a soft butterfly chomping down upon a weak helpless leaf. In this is a mixture of sun-light, moon-light, and a large stampede of horses holding men with swords, mixed with satan being beaten upon by I am.... accenting this entity is a grand slam feel of skateboard trucks, snowboard edges, and wakeboard angles.
Record Label: Kenton B. Klassen Computer
Type of Label: None

My Blog

Take Your Shot

Take Your Shot   Taste the sweat drip from your brow Duck and press, you know how Control the emotions that act without reason Drown your pride for an extra shot Follow to the end of the...
Posted by Kenton Benjamin Klassen on Fri, 02 Feb 2007 02:50:00 PST

Kenton's search for knowledge, wisdom, and truth....read on

How do we as people define what is truth/fact and what is gossip?       Are we able to captivate a true belief or statement upon sheer here-say regarding friends or famil...
Posted by Kenton Benjamin Klassen on Thu, 01 Feb 2007 02:06:00 PST

for anyone who is interested in my future...plans.. seriously

So I used to be a cocky SOB...forsure...(I am not the most humble guy around AT ALL by any means. I NOW know what I am "naturally talented" at and actually believe it)However...I honesly piss MYSELF o...
Posted by Kenton Benjamin Klassen on Wed, 31 Jan 2007 04:05:00 PST

YAAAAAAAAH SING EVERYTHING YOU FEEEL

A buddy of mine (Trev) just said something to me that I am going to take to heart. He said write how you feel when you feel it because then when you need a song about it you will have docummented it a...
Posted by Kenton Benjamin Klassen on Fri, 26 Jan 2007 07:19:00 PST

Decided to become a life-long musician...

So... I came to a conclusion.   I asked myself...a simple question : What makes my heart beat faster? There are some obvious answers to this question..ask certain people. Random people that actua...
Posted by Kenton Benjamin Klassen on Sun, 14 Jan 2007 02:41:00 PST

MY NEW BAND YAAAAH

I am the BandI got some new Recording stuff for Christmas.... Line 6....Mic....etc yeaah..it is coming..so wait for it ladies! :P...
Posted by Kenton Benjamin Klassen on Fri, 29 Dec 2006 03:05:00 PST