Kenny Vasoli, Date of Birth, Place of Birth
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Lead singer of The Starting Line and Vacationer
Date of Birth: 20-May-1984
Place of Birth: Abington Township, Pennsylvania, United States
Profession: singer
Nationality: United States
Zodiac Sign: Taurus 
About Kenny Vasoli
- Kenneth Robert "Kenny" Vasoli (born May 20, 1984, in Abington, Pennsylvania).
- Vasoli attended Hatboro-Horsham High School.
- At the age of 14, he was invited to join the band The Starting Line after Matt Watts read his AOL Messenger profile.
- Only 17 years old, he finished high school early to concentrate on music.
- When The Starting Line's debut album “Say it Like You Mean It" was released in 2002, Vasoli was just 18.
- His previous bands include The Prize Fight and Smash Adams.
- In early 2004, Vasoli also had a short-lived side-project called Statue, with members of The Prize Fight and Inkling.Person L was just a side project when The Starting Line's third and final album "Direction" (2007) was being recorded.
- As Vasoli puts it, his new band was a way to get his “weird-ies” out.
- But after "Direction," it became his full-time creative focus, as he felt in some ways spent with his original band." I probably was the leader in us cooling down.
- I think I had probably reached a point where I felt a little bit tapped creatively to write for that band," he said.
- Vasoli's new endeavor was certainly a departure from the genre he grew up in.
- Heavily influenced by Drive like Jehu and Radiohead with inflections of blues and soul throughout, both of Person L's albums, "Initial" (2008) and "The Positives" (2009), often featured him wailing at the top of his lungs.
- Person L's debut record Initial was released on August 5 on Vasoli's own label, Human Interest.
- His foray into new sounds was like growing out of childish eating habits, like beginning to enjoy broccoli, he says.
- For example, as a bassist, hearing the riff in Radiohead's "Airbag" changed his outlook on how he could utilize his instrument.“It was a big release to get all that out," Vasoli noted.
- In the song “Untitled” from "The Positives," a steady, rhythmic guitar builds up to the chorus where Vasoli belts “I was going through a change,” showcasing a controlled, raspy register that he explored only a few times with his previous group.“ I think I really needed that.
- It was an exercise in stretching my boundaries.” "Life is short dude," Vasoli said, speaking about his ever-changing creative outlets.
- "If I'm given the opportunity to be in the driver's seat, I don't want to paint myself into a corner of being trapped in these same 20 songs for my whole life." Vasoli would test the limits of his vocal chords while Person L played small, intimate venues.
- That was fun, but the next step never came.
- The band's ceiling seemed to be opening for bigger bands, not headlining.
- On top of all that, the screaming was beginning to take a toll.“Because I was flipping out and screaming at the top of my lungs every night I was just like destroying myself on stage," Vasoli said.Vasoli now makes chilled-out jams under the name Vacationer.
- “I think when Vacationer started, I just didn’t want to make loud music anymore.
- I didn’t want to scream,” he says.
- “I wanted to be in a band where I could relax.”Vacationer has now released four records since its inception: “Gone” (2012), "Relief" (2014), "Mindset" (2018) & “Wavelengths” (2019)
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