Kingsley Smith spent his first 20 years based in Hamilton, part of the mighty Waikato region. He has had a long and colourful career in music that goes back as far as 1982 when he started his classical piano training. Although it wasn't until 1990 when he formed his first rock band, 'Primitive Attraction',

which covered all the great rock essentials of the time including Guns n Roses, Faith No More and Tesla. After several more bands, including his thrash group 'Alarum'. Kingsley finally found his footing with originals outfit 'Mask' which released 2 singles, 'Oursleves' and 'Taking photographs' at the end of the 90s. Their style was quite broad for rock and it encorporated everything from Doobie brothers inspired groove to heavy prog rock.

 

By the year 2000 Kingsley had left Hamilton and lived for awhile in Auckland before settling down in Thames, Coromandel in 2003 where he picked up his song writing again. This time round he focused on keyboard orientated instrumental music and put out 2 full albums including 'The Pilgrims lounge' (2004) and 'In the zone' (2010). The first was jazz/blues inspired whereas the 2nd was more funk rock. In 2007 Kingsley helped release an album called 'Fantasy' by Coromandel based Euro-dance group 'Cassidy'. This was a very diferent project and style for him but one that he was still able to write for, with 3 of his songs making it to the album: 'Riding this wave', 'Fly away', and 'Momenta'.