Songstress-Songwriter Kenecia, born Andrea Kenecia Fernander, is the only child of a Bahamian mother and Jamaican-Seminole Indian father, both United States Air Force veterans. Not long after Kenecia was born her parents separated, leaving her to be raised solely by her mother.

When Kenecia was six months old her mother received orders to the United Kingdom, giving them an opportunity to be stationed at Greenham Common, Lakenheath, London and Mildenhall Royal Air Force Base. By six years of age Kenecia had visited over 14 cities of the UK, such as Bath, Birmingham, Cambridge, Durham, Lancashire, Manchester, and Yorkshire to name a few. During that period Kenecia also visited France, Germany, and Sweden.

The arts of performance and music are a hereditary factor. Kenecia’s grandfather, Edgar Fernander, a native of Nassau, Bahamas, was a bass and drum player who played with a number of groups for over thirty years between Nassau, BS and Miami, FL. During the early 80’s her mother was a member of an elite rap group based out of Florida called the “Jazzy 3 MC’s” which included “Mello-Dee” (Deryck Truitt Young), “Nastee-Hec-C” (Hector C.), and “Fo-xy” (Brenda Fernander).

While over seas, Kenecia’s mother, Brenda, wrote and directed a number of spiritually-based plays ranging from Romance to Drama to Black History. While in London, Brenda was scouted while directing her play “A Dream Come True” based on the renowned speech by Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. titled “I Have A Dream”. During this play is when Brenda was offered to become a play-writer under a production company based in London.

Kenecia’s love for the arts came at a very early age. At the tender age of three she studied ballet and tap at Busy Bee’s located in Mildenhall. At age four Kenecia was giving the opportunity to attend Lakenheath Montessori although guidelines stated that students had to be five, soon to be six years of age, in order to attend. There she continued her art of dance.

In 1989 Kenecia’s mother married a fellow military officer and by age six the family had moved to Myrtle Beach, South Carolina. This is where Kenecia found her true calling of music. With her step-dad a deacon and her mother a Sunday school teacher, as well as the director of the Sunbeam Children’s Choir and Sandy Grove Youth Choir of Sandy Grove Missionary Baptist Church her mother discovered that Kenecia had been harboring the gift of song. Throughout the years Kenecia led a number of songs for the Sunbeam Choir. The most popular to locals was “Sheppard” by the Mississippi Children’s Choir. In the middle of service Reverend Fred W. Johnson was known for summonsing the Sunbeam to perform “Sheppard”, even if they weren’t schedule to sing on that particular Sunday. Along with singing came playing the piano by ear, another gift inherited from her mother.

In 1995, at the age of 11, Kenecia’s mother and step-father separated forcing her mother to relocate to Warner Robins, Georgia. There Kenecia was hired to play the piano for various churches, including the Warner Robins Base Chapel.

After repeated hardships lasting from 1995 to 1998, Kenecia and her mother searched for a “New Beginning” in Atlanta, Georgia. There Kenecia attended Redan and Towers High Schools, becoming a senior at the age of sixteen and graduating in 2001. Not long after, Kenecia majored in Paralegal Studies at DeKalb Technical Institute.

In February of 2003 Kenecia was reminded of her calling by a close friend and was literally dragged into Playtoe Productions, now known as Playtoe Records. It was there that Kenecia met, and after years of development, became the protégé of James Moore, former member of “The Platters”. Now, after five years, Kenecia has developed into a true R&B, Gospel, and Hip-Hop songstress-songwriter with one goal in mind, and that’s to “Continue the Tradition”.