Kenn Smith is a Hoosier businessman and country singer who has lived and worked in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam since 2003.
Before Covid lockdowns in third and fourth quarters 2021, he had been planning a return to his home state with his custom fashion brand.
After suffering a vaccine-related stroke in 2022, he began singing country music professionally and had to leave behind his old business.
In the time since then, he has reinvented himself and, with partners, is developing an F&B brand, Saigon Caoboi (registered in Indiana) to begin franchising in early 2026.