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Jenkins in 2011
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Background information | |
Birth name | Stephan Douglas Jenkins |
Born |
Indio, California |
September 27, 1964
Genres | Alternative rock, pop rock |
Occupation(s) | Singer/songwriter, producer |
Instruments | Vocals, guitar, keyboards, drums, percussion, bass |
Years active | 1992–present |
Labels | Elektra, Mega Collider |
Associated acts |
Third Eye Blind Puck and Natty Vanessa Carlton |
Website | http://www.3eb.com |
Stephan Douglas Jenkins (born September 27, 1964) is an American musician best known as the lead singer, songwriter, and guitarist for Third Eye Blind. Under Jenkins's leadership, Third Eye Blind has sold over 12 million copies worldwide of five albums: Third Eye Blind (1997), Blue (1999), Out of the Vein (2003), Ursa Major (2009), and Dopamine (2015). Jenkins wrote or co-wrote all of the band's most notable hits, including "Semi-Charmed Life", "Jumper", "How's It Going to Be", "Losing a Whole Year", "Graduate", "Deep Inside of You", and "Never Let You Go".
Jenkins was born in San Bernardino, California and raised in Palo Alto, California. He attended Henry M. Gunn Senior High School. Jenkins got interested in music early in life. He recalls banging out original works at the age of five, pulling out pots and pans on the floor of his kitchen at home in northern California. When he was 13, his family relocated to Madison, Wisconsin to support his father's career, but the Jenkins family returned to the Bay Area two years later. In 1987 he graduated from University of California, Berkeley with a B.A. in English Literature.