Jordan Kensington
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Jordan Kensington (aka Prince Diamond) is a CEO, actor , TV/radio presenter and rapper.
His business interests include the brand ‘Invincible’ and the holding group of companies Invincible Media Group, which includes Invincible Magazine, Invincible Radio, Invincible Television, Invincible properties, Invincible Newspaper and Invincible Events which is responsible for the prestigious Urban Music Awards (held annually in the UK, US, Japan, and the Caribbean), National Entrepreneurs Conference and British Music Week.
He has taken the roles of television presenter, radio presenter, performer, producer of The Official International Download Chart show on the Musicians Channel
Jordan Kensington is one of the richest young black entrepreneurs in the UK with a net worth estimated at US$18 Million.
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[edit] Early years
Jordan Kensington was born in [London], [UK at St. George's Hospital] in [Streatham]. The son of Agnes and Emmanuel Kensington, He grew up in the beautiful island of St Lucia and later moved back to London following the loss of his Dad to kidney failure in 1995. After completing his secondary education at South Thames College in Putney , London, Jordan attended Greenwich University to study live sciences whist pursing a music career. He later dropped out and a year later went to South Bank University were he took up a Law degree and passes with a 2:1. He was an intern at South London’s first community radio station and will travel back and forth to several pirate stations including (Flashback, Ice fm, Elite fm and more to do shows as an MC under his stage name of Prince Diamond. He put together the crew Too Dark Crew and Too Dark Records (his first company) with members Desire McNeish, MC Kronic, Cobra, Platinum and 22 other members. The group toured the regular club venues in London’s capital and did the rounds of the pirate stations. He later got signed to now defunct record label, SRS Records in Japan for a one million pound deal which included recording, release, management, and touring. He toured with German group the Warp Brothers, and did a slow mc/dance remix of the Universal Records hit ‘Reel 2 Real’ track ‘I Like to Move it’ which earned him a series of high profile bookings in Europe and Asia and resulted in a Europe Dance Music Award for Best Newcomer.
[edit] Establishing Invincible
After the 2 year deal with SRS. Jordan sold his house which was bought outright from his advance and invested all into a new brand Invincible. With a passion for music and the media, Jordan set up the UK’s first ever British urban music and lifestyle publication, Invincible magazine in 2000 with a free circulation of 65,000. He then went on to launch Invincible Radio a year later, which broadcasts to over 500,000 listeners worldwide each week.
As Invincible grew, Jordan saw a gap in the market, and launched the prestigious Urban Music Awards ceremony in 2003 in the UK. Watched by 14.5 million viewers worldwide, the UMAs reward and recognise the talents and achievements of those in the industry. Invincible events, the events arm now hosts the Urban Music Awards in 5 different countries around the world and is responsible for the British Music Week and National Entrepreneurs Conference.
Since then, the media group has grown enormously with Invincible TV being launched firstly in the UK, followed by the Caribbean, Cameroon, Jamaica and Ghana and then the launch of Invincible Media Group in New York with offices in Wall Street. 7th of July 2007 also saw the launch of the UMA’s in New York and the launch of the 1st ever free entertainment newspaper to be distributed forthnightly to both New York and London simultaneously. This event was covered with a 13 minute in depth interview on CNN on the 8th of September. Since then he has also appeared on BBC World Service’s Business Report, Channel 4’s Rise TV, Choice fm, Kiss 100, and has been featured regularly on the Independent Newspaper, The Evening Standard and the New Nation Newspaper.
[edit] Personal life
Jordan Kensington has 2 charity organizations ‘Back on your Feet’ and organization dedicated to homeless people and Support for Darfur a charity created to raise awareness for starving kids in the region of Darfur. He has also in the part raised awareness and or giving profits from his numerous events to Unicef, War Child and most recently Oxfam Charity. Jordan Kensington has never married but has been rumoured by the press and media to be linked with a few hotties in his time including Tatyana Ali, the R&B singer , Amerie, Foxy Brown and Barbados beauty Rihanna.
Jordan Kensington was given the title of Ambassador of a government backed campaign called Make Your Mark which helps to encourage young people into business and since then he has toured several businesses, colleges, schools and universities giving speeches on positive thinking, the law of attraction and achieving every single goal by changing mindsets.
[edit] Performing career
Prince Diamond has performed and collaborated with very high respected artists including Public Enemy, De La Soul , Foxy Brown, Jay-Z, Wyclef Jean, and many more.
It was reported that Prince Diamond was working on an album for 2008 called ‘The Music Game’.
[edit] Ventures
Jordan Kensington has opened his own clothing range named ‘Invincible Jeans’. Jordan Kensington is one of the wealthiest people in the UK entertainment industry with most of his assests and business interest tied up in off shore Caribbean islands including ; Barbados, St. Lucia, and Jamaica. In 2003, he was featured on the Independent Newspaper’s "10 Richest enthnic minority entrepreneurs under 40" and was placed as a number one role model amongst the ethnic groups in the UK.
He was rumoured to have turned down a request to be on ITV 1’s award winning show "I’m a Celebrity Get me Out of Here" because he was afraid of eating unknown creatures. In addition to his work as an entrepreneur, performer and presenter, Jordan Kensington entered the television industry. His Sky channel was launched in 2003 whilst a series of executively produced shows have been received with success. His must acclaimed “60 minutes with…..” was a well known series on Sky that featured exclusive day in the life interviews with Public Enemy, Fabulous, Richard Branson, and more recently Leona Lewis, Lemar, Jon B, Just Jack and the Jamaican special which are now archived on You Tube.
Jordan Kensington also owns a primary school and a college in St. Lucia and The Cameroon. The Primary school is called Bilingual Kindergarten and Primary School whilst the college is called Mother Teresa’s College.
He appeared on the Sky hit series Dream Team and he played the role of Jamie a footballer patient in a hospital in 1998.
He was also approached in 2006 to be a VIP member of the Blackberry VIP Entrepreneurs Network which includes; Charles Dunstone (MD, of Carphone Warehouse), Richard Branson and more UK entrepreneurs.
In 2007, Jordan inked a deal, with leading footwear brand, Kickers which lead in an exclusive production of a special Kickers UMA shoe and a dedicated website. The company Invincible also counts as its past clients, Samsung Mobile, M.A.C Cosmetics, Foot Locker, Timberland, Storm Watches, and much more.
