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- Raymond Anthony Thomas was born on 19 December 1956 in Kentwood, Louisiana, USA. He is an actor, known for Shutter Island (2010), Trouble with the Curve (2012) and Half Nelson (2006).
- Jason Alexander was born on 16 October 1981 in Kentwood, Louisiana, USA. He was previously married to Britney Spears.
- Jamie Spears was born on 6 July 1952 in Kentwood, Louisiana, USA. He was previously married to Lynne Spears and Debbie Sanders.
- Clay Shaw was born on 17 March 1913 in Kentwood, Louisiana, USA. He died on 15 August 1974 in New Orleans, Louisiana, USA.
- Crystal Milton was born in 1990 in Kentwood, Louisiana, USA. She is an actress, known for Crossroads (2002).
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Born in Kenwood, LA, in 1920, bluesman Paul Gayten was known as a bandleader and pianist in the New Orleans blues scene in the 1940s, but is probably best known as a producer, arranger and talent scout. He led his own orchestra and had a few hit records in the 1940s, but after the war he disbanded his orchestra and began working in New Orleans in 1950 mainly as a producer, and he was soon hired by Chicago-based Chess Records as their eyes and ears in the Crescent City, searching out and recording new talent. In that capacity he discovered such artists as Clarence 'Frogman' Henry and Eddie Bo.
In the early 1960s Gayten left New Orleans and moved to Los Angeles, where he started his own label, Pzazz, and focused more on jazz than blues and R&B. He remained in L.A. until his death in 1991.- Glenn Ezell was born on 29 October 1944 in Kentwood, Louisiana, USA. He died on 9 November 2020 in the USA.
- Blues piano player Little Brother Montgomery was born Eurreal Montgomery in 1906 in Kentwood, LA. He learned to play the piano by watching the piano players who performed in his father's "barrelhouse", and picked up the nickname "Little Brother Harper" (later shortened to just "Little Brother", and still later lengthened to "Little Brother Montgomery"). He has claimed that he left home at 11 years of age and traveled all over the South as a piano player, performing in every place from small clubs and house-rent parties to brothels and logging camps, and pretty much everything in between, specializing in blues, jazz and boogie-woogie. He eventually got jobs playing with such blues figures as Clarence Desdunes and The Joyland Revelers. In 1930 he recorded some songs for Paramount Records. He expanded his "territory" to Chicago and New Orleans, but returned home to Louisiana and then moved to Jackson, MS, in the early 1930s. He resumed recording in 1935 after signing a contract with Bluebird Records. He returned to Chicago in 1942 and recorded for several smaller labels that catered to the African-American market. He gained a reputation as a first-rate session man and played on recordings by such artists as Sippie Wallace, Minnie Hicks and Irene Suggs. He kept his performing confined mostly to the Chicago area for the next four decades, although he did do some touring and played blues and jazz festivals around the country. He still did session work in Chicago, playing with such singers as Otis Rush and Magic Sam.
In 1966 he formed his own label, FM Records (the "F" was for his wife, Janet Floberg), but most of the label's releases were of albums by Montgomery and his wife. He recorded his final album in 1982.
He died in Chicago, IL, in 1985. - Wendell Brumfield was born on 1 July 1936 in Kentwood, Louisiana, USA. He was an actor, known for Sounder (1972). He was married to Dawn Goldsmith. He died on 9 January 2024 in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, USA.