STEPHEN JERZAK

Stephen Jerzak (lahir 5 Mei 1992) adalah penyanyi pop Amerika / penulis lagu yang berasal dari La Crosse, WI. Stephen mulai menyanyi dan bermain gitar pada usia 12 tahun, tapi mendapatkan popularitas ketika lagunya "Cute" menjadi sensasi besar di MySpace. Stephen sekarang memiliki lebih dari 12,5 Juta players di MySpace dan telah menjual 65.000 + single independen pada iTunes. Touring Stephen berjudul Tour Bromance pada Juli 2009 dengan dukungan dari Chase Coy, Breathe Electric dan Romance On A Rocketship. Stephen didukung The Scene Aesthetic dan The Color Fred pada bulan Agustus / September 2009 pada A Summer To Remember Tour. Stephen melakukan tur nasional dengan Breathe Carolina pada mereka tur Bronz EZ Headline yang mencakup sebagian besar Amerika pada November dan Desember 2009. Stephen dikonfirmasi untuk Unsilent Night Festival di Dallas pada 12/27/09 dan Dukungan langsung untuk NeverShoutNever di  A Very Acoustic Christmas Festival di Chicago, IL pada 12/30/09 Stephen juga dikonfirmasi untuk SXSW dan Bamboozle pada tahun 2010.

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My Story.
It's come a time to share who I am with you.  You all deserve this after being there for me for so long.

I'll start from when I was in elementary school:

Honestely, I was the dork kid alive.  I lived off of Pokemon cards and Dragonball Z.  There was never a time after this where I was happier with myself.  I could go to my friends house and trade Pokemon cards and play with Dragonball Z action figures outside in the dirt.  Nothing felt better because I had no care in the world.  Nobody else mattered except for me.  I was very overweight, I had very crooked teeth, I had my hair very short and spikey (like the Backstreet Boys), and I didn't care.  Nobody could break through my barrier of happiness.  Around 5th grade my friend, who was a 6th grader, started taking guitar lessons at the local guitar shop in town.  I went along with him once and fell in love.  My father had been in the music scene his whole teenage life, which meant he had guitars laying around the house.  I decided to follow in my friends footsteps and learn guitar as well.  I didn't take lessons though.

After being self tought for a little over a month, I enrolled in middle school.  Honestly, I was the weirdest kid alive.  The transition from grade school to jr. high was a big one.  I went from the innocent boy who played Dragonball Z action figures to a complete badass.  I thought I could do anything since I could play guitar.  I joined a band, UnderAge, as the lead singer and guitarist at the end of 6th grade.  This is where my life began.


The thought of a girl liking me was never brought into my mind, being the Pokemon-nerd that I was in past years.  And even in 6th grade, I went through a stage of BLACK where that was the only color in my wardrobe.  After my band started playing around the city, I started building the confidence that I was always unfamiliar with.  I was the king.  The sensation of playing music and people going to watch me really made me who I am today.  It was an unbelievable feeling, as it still is, but back then it was all about the ladies.  As like every other boy in my grade, I was horny 24/7!  Any chance a girl seemed to be interested, I was interested back, no matter what.  I built myself a repuation that would stick with me through the rest of my middle school/high school experience.  I was the "man-whore".  The attention I was getting was too much to pass by, so I soaked it all in.

I went from the "cool" kid to the "man-whore" within a matter of weeks.  I never wanted anybody to see me as that, because I wasn't.  The title I was given made me seem like a disrespectful person to everyone; it made me seem cocky; it made me seem like a bad person.  I was kicked out of my band the summer before 8th grade, and kind of left music alone through my 8th grade year.  The real stuff all happened before high school.

High school.  I'm still in it, and I still hate it.  If anyone from my school or old school is reading this, please dont stop here.  My freshman year was hard.  My reputation as the "man-whore" had reached the upper-classman's knowledge.  I was the target for everyone.  I was pushed, I was teased, I was bullied, and I was affraid.  High school seemed to be doing absolutely nothing good for me, so I decided to transfer schools.  I began a new high school on the other side of town at the beginning of sophomore year.  It seemed great at first, but the same thing happened eventually.  I don't have any friends at school, and I don't need any.  They are the people who have built me up into the person I am now.  I realized that I didn't need anyone but myself, and now I sit back and watch my classmates lose friends everyday.  People aren't real anymore, which is a shame.  I give everyone a chance, but nobody around here has taken one.  No one in my entire school, or entire old school knows who I really am.

I am a lover.
I am a friend.
I am a strong person.
I am caring.
I am outgoing.
I am honest.
I am happy.

but most importantly,

I am no better than you are.

I am very grateful to have amazing people like you in my life, and I take nothing that has happened for granted.  I thank you for everything.  Even if I don't have the time to comment/message you back here on myspace, I still take everything in and smile.  Everything happens for a reason.  Everything that happens leads to bigger and better things.  Don't ever forget that.

--stephenjerzak 

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