Stephan Jenkins

Stephan Jenkins ( born September 27, 1964 in Oakland ) is an American musician. He is best known as the vocalist and guitarist of the band Third Eye Blind, but also appeared as an actor and music producer in appearance.

Life

Jenkins grew up in Palo Alto. As a student, he suffered from dyslexia. Later, however, he made the bachelor's degree in English Literature and in 1987 was valedictorian of his class at the University of California, Berkeley.

Angang 1990s was Jenkins part of a hip-hop duo called " Puck and Natty ". Shortly after this broke up, he formed with guitarist George Earth, drummer Adrian Burley and bassist Jason Slater, the band Third Eye Blind. After the band had appeared in 1996 as the opening act for Oasis, a year later followed with their self-titled debut album, the big breakthrough. In addition, Jenkins came as a producer in the headlines, than that produced by him for the soundtrack to the comedy High School High Bohemian Rhapsody cover version of The Braids helped the hip- hop duo to a contract with a major label.

After some of his songs were used in soundtracks of various films, took Jenkins in 2001 his first role in a Hollywood movie. In the comedy film Rock Star starring Mark Wahlberg and Jennifer Aniston, he played a minor role. In parallel, he was going through a relationship with actress Charlize Theron headlines that broke in October 2001. He processed the separation in several songs, which are reflected in the 2003's third - Third Eye Blind album Out of the Vein.

Later, Jenkins had a relationship with singer Vanessa Carlton. For them he wrote several songs and was involved alongside Rick Rubin, Channel 7 and Irv Gotti on the production of their third album, Heroes and Thieves.