Jake Shears
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Jake Shears (born Jason Sellards on October 3, 1978 in Arizona) is the vocalist for the American alternative music group the Scissor Sisters.
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[edit] Early life and career
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Sellards attended Occidental College in Los Angeles. When Sellards was 19, he traveled to Lexington, Kentucky to visit a classmate, who introduced him to Scott Hoffman (Babydaddy). Sellards and Hoffman hit it off immediately and, a year later, both moved to New York.
In New York, Sellards attended Eugene Lang College, where he studied fiction writing, and wrote pieces for the gay magazine HX. For a while, Sellards was a fixture on the New York gay and electroclash scene, as well as a stripper in alternative gay bars (including the legendary IC-Guyz).
In 2000, Sellards also worked as an intern for Paper magazine.
Sellards and Hoffman formed the Scissor Sisters in 2002 as a kind of performance art lark, playing outrageous shows in clubs like Luxx, the heart of the electroclash scene in Williamsburg, Brooklyn, where Sellards lived. After a couple years struggling in New York (working with record label A Touch of Class, who produced "Comfortably Numb" and "Filthy/Gorgeous"), the Sisters finally found success in the UK and Ireland - ending 2004 with the biggest-selling album of the year in the UK.
In concert, Shears is known for provocative dancing and often going near-nude, hearkening back to his former occupation as a stripper. He, along with his band, has become especially popular in the LGBT community.
Shears, as well as fellow band members Babydaddy and Del Marquis, is openly gay.
[edit] Other credits
Shears performs with Erasure's Andy Bell on "Thought It Was You", on Bell's 2005 album Electric Blue.
He has also collaborated with Tiga, and wrote the hit single "I Believe In You" for Kylie Minogue with Babydaddy.
[edit] Trivia
- Shears' list of musical influences include Duran Duran, Roxy Music and Dolly Parton.
- Shears attended Sir Elton John's "stag" party before John's wedding to David Furnish.
- Shears once dated fellow musician Rufus Wainwright.
- In an interview with the British tabloid 'The Sun', Shears admitted to having a crush on England football star Wayne Rooney. [1]
- In his late teens, Jake performed in the drag show/club in Seattle, "20th Century Foxes" under the name Cubic Zirconia[citation needed].
[edit] External links
- Official Scissor Sisters website
- www.scissorsisters.tk
- Underground Illusion - The Ultimate Scissor Sisters Database
- Jake Shears & Ana Matronic site
- Out.com interview with Scissor Sisters
- Out.com interview with Jake Shears
- OutTraveler.com Travelin' Like a Rock Star: How Scissor Sisters front man Jake Shears does it on the road. By Matthew Breen
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