The band consists of lead vocalist Jason Dowd, guitarist Casper Starreveld, bassist Jan Haker and drummer Niles Vandenberg.

[1] Kensington also performed the largest concert by a Dutch rock band in the country's history when they sold out the Johan Cruyff Arena in 2018 with 51,000 tickets.

[2] Before Kensington, guitarist Casper Starreveld, bassist Jan Haker and drummer Lucas Lenselink played together as Quad, for a secondary school assignment at Montessori Lyceum Herman Jordan in Zeist.

At the end of the year, drummer Lesenlink left the band because he did not see a professional future for himself and wanted to finish his university studies.

[2] In the summer of 2009, Kensington traveled to Leeds to start work on their first full-length album with producer James Kenosha, in the studio of Kaiser Chiefs' keyboardist Nick Baines.

[9] With the album, Eloi Youssef became the band's lead vocalist after previously splitting duties with guitarist Casper Starreveld, who retreated to backing vocals.

In 2010, Kensington earned support slots opening for Razorlight,[10] My Chemical Romance[3] and The Wombats[11] for those bands' Dutch shows.

[17] In November 2011, the band was invited to New York City to promote Borders, playing a show at the Manhattan music venue The Cutting Room.

An international version of Vultures was released on 11 January 2013 by Universal in Germany, Belgium, Austria, Switzerland and South Korea.

[29] In October, they won the MTV Europe Music Award (EMA) for Best Dutch Act, defeating Afrojack, Armin van Buuren, Nicky Romero and Nielson.

[31] The band played their largest concert to date at the Heineken Music Hall in Amsterdam on 20 February 2015, which sold out tickets within ten days.

[38][39] In 2015, Kensington collaborated with DJ Armin van Buuren for the song "Heading Up High", which was featured on his album Embrace.

[45] Frontman Eloi Youssef unexpectedly learned in 2015 that his ex-girlfriend was pregnant with his child, and this informed several songs on the album.

[65] In April 2024, Youssef announced his first solo tour, accompanied by the Kamerata Zuid orchestra, set to begin in March 2025.

[67][68] On 16 January 2025, Kensington officially announced American singer Jason Dowd as the band's new lead vocalist and released their first single with him, "A Moment", also performing it inside the Ziggo Dome.

The paper said that Kensington's most impressive commercial achievement is their ticket sales; the band first played local Utrecht venues before ascending to the festival circuit of Pinkpop, Lowlands and Noorderslag in 2013 and 2014 and then conquering Amsterdam at the arena level.

[1] On 14 July 2018, Kensington sold out the Johan Cruyff Arena in Amsterdam – the largest venue in the country, selling 51,000 tickets in what became the largest-ever rock concert by a Dutch band.

[74] Like their commercially successful Dutch mainstream rock predecessors BLØF and Kane, Kensington has also been criticised for their music, specifically their overuse of "whoo-hoo" melodies and "arm-waving songs".

[1] In 2016, the Belgian magazine Humo compared a Kensington song to "a pre-packaged slice of cheddar cheese: wrapped in plastic, unnaturally shiny and an imitation of the real stuff.

"[77] Former lead singer Eloi Youssef poked fun at the backlash, describing Kensington's music as "our Lion King sound."