Styles was born in Thailand to a single mother who worked as a sex worker.[1] They two later moved to the United Kingdom after she married a British national.[1] Once the marriage ended, his mother returned to Thailand, leaving Styles at an orphanage.[1] He remained in the orphanage until the age of 16.[1]
Styles took up boxing, becoming a regional champion as a teen.[1] He was considered but ultimately passed on to represent Team Britain for the Youth Olympic Games.[1] He later joined the British Army and served in Northern Ireland[citation needed], Bosnia, Kosovo twice, and Iraq twice during his seven years of active duty.[1]
After leaving the army, he entered the pornography industry, starting a company called "Superman Stamina".[1] Styles was active in pornographic movies from August 2006, and retired in 2015.[2] He first found steady work in Eastern Europe, relocating to live in both Prague and Budapest. In January 2010, Styles moved to Los Angeles.[1] He is regarded as the first heterosexual Asian male porn star in American pornography[3] by some. In July 2015, Styles announced his retirement from the porn industry on his blog, KeniCamz.[4]
Shimizu, Celine Parreñas (2013), "Bound by expectation: the racialized sexuality of porn star Keni Styles", in Shimizu, Celine Parreñas; Taormino, Tristan; Penley, Constance; Miller-Young, Mireille (eds.), The feminist porn book: the politics of producing pleasure, New York, NY: Feminist Press at the City University of New York, pp. 287–302, ISBN9781558618183.