Today we’d like to introduce you to KENNSIX.
Hi KENNSIX, it’s an honor to have you on the platform. Thanks for taking the time to share your story with us – to start maybe you can share some of your backstory with our readers?
I was born in a small town in Greece that always felt too small for my imagination. As a kid, I lived between two worlds — the real one, and the one I created in my head. I spent hours watching sci-fi and horror movies, not because they scared me, but because they felt like home. They were my escape — and eventually, my inspiration.
I had a little plastic synthesizer, a cassette recorder, and paints. That’s all I needed to start building worlds. In the basement of my house, I created a mini “studio” where I spent all day making monsters, fake blood, prosthetics, sculptures — trying to bring my visions to life. I didn’t know it then, but that was the beginning of Nightmare-Pop.
I always dreamed of Hollywood, even though I had never seen it — I just knew it existed, and I belonged there.
When I graduated school, I moved to Athens and studied acting, which led me to the School of Fine Arts — the biggest art university in Greece. From there, I started traveling — Madrid, London, Paris, New York — always learning, always evolving, never fitting in completely. And then, I moved to Los Angeles.
Hollywood wasn’t just a dream anymore — it became my address.
I worked in fashion and visuals — collaborating with creatives, photographers, and publications like Vogue and Steven Klein’. But there was always another side of me — something more raw, more emotional, more unexpected. That was KENNSIX — my alter ego, my creative identity.
He doesn’t just sing, or paint, or direct — he builds worlds.
My childhood nightmares stopped being just scary. They became beautiful, surreal, cinematic. They felt like music. That’s when I understood — I wasn’t simply making dark pop, art pop, or fashion imagery.
I discovered a language that already existed — Nightmare-Pop — but I reshaped it into something deeply personal. I didn’t invent the name, but I built the world behind it.
For me, Nightmare-Pop isn’t a genre label — it’s a feeling. A place you step into. A beautiful nightmare you don’t want to wake up from.
Can you talk to us a bit about the challenges and lessons you’ve learned along the way. Looking back would you say it’s been easy or smooth in retrospect?
Not at all. I’ve always felt like an outsider — creatively and personally.
In the small town where I grew up, I felt like I was living at the edge of the world.
Then in art school, I was told my ideas were “too strange” or “too dark” to belong anywhere.
I didn’t fit into music, or fashion, or visual art — and that felt like a struggle for years.
But eventually, I realized that not fitting in was the point.
What made me different wasn’t a flaw. It was the beginning of my world.
As you know, we’re big fans of you and your work. For our readers who might not be as familiar what can you tell them about what you do?
I’m a multidisciplinary artist — musician, visual storyteller, and an architect of the world of Nightmare-Pop.
My work lives where sound, image, and emotion collide. I don’t separate music from visuals — they come from the same place. I write, perform, compose, direct, design, and visually construct everything around KENNSIX. It’s not just songs — it’s a universe.
Nightmare-Pop is the world I built out of my nightmares — where beauty and discomfort coexist.
It blends haunting pop melodies, cinematic visual art, fashion, psychological horror, and emotional vulnerability. I don’t use darkness just to shock — I use it to reveal. To show that even fear, anxiety, or strangeness can be beautiful.
I’m known for blurring lines:
• Music that feels like film.
• Visuals that feel like memory or dream.
• My character (KENNSIX) that is both real and imaginary.
I’ve worked in high-fashion retouching and visual design with photographers like Steven Klein and editorial platforms such as Vogue, but KENNSIX is entirely self-created. Every frame, every lyric, every visual — handmade, built from my own inner world.
What sets my work apart is that it never tries to fit into one discipline, genre, or industry.
It lives outside the lines — which is exactly where it belongs.
Before we go, is there anything else you can share with us?
Nightmare-Pop is more than a music genre or a visual style — it’s where sound, image, and emotion melt into one world.
It was born from a place where fear becomes beautiful, where the strange becomes meaningful.
Audiovisual ec·sta·sy — beautiful nightmares for your eyes and ears.
My art doesn’t try to escape reality — it recreates it. It makes you feel something you can’t quite explain.
If someone listens to my music or stares at one of my visuals and feels strangely seen — or slightly haunted — then it did what it was supposed to do.
Nightmare-Pop has entered the room.
Contact Info:
- Website: https://kennsix.com/
- Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/kennsix/
- Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/@kennsix/featured
- Soundcloud: https://soundcloud.com/kenn-six
- Other: https://open.spotify.com/artist/0phm75Zhb2pjvyAWHZmtUd
Image Credits
All images where shot by KENNSIX
