Patrick Stump: biography and family. Patrick Stump before and after losing weight

How deeply rooted is the stereotype that girls love "bad guys"? And who is he today's "bad guy"? This is not a bully and not a robber. The modern anti-hero should remain romantic and intelligent. Ideally, he does music. So it turns out that today the girls love the creative and smart, who know how to properly submit themselves. Until recently, Patrick Stump did not know how to present himself, but gathered, dropped a dozen kilograms and got married. Did he really change the disintegration of the band that brought popularity?

Career peak

In 2001, in the town of Wilmett, Illinois, Joseph Troman and Peter Wentz conceived to found a punk rock band called Fall Out Boy. "Dropouts" from the general get-together guys started the way in music one by one, playing in the hardcore groups of Chicago. As the vocalist, the founders of the boy band saw their familiar guitarist named Patrick Stump. Later, the band found drummer Andy Hurley. By the way, earlier the functions of the drummer lay on Patrick, until his strong vocals were revealed. Several concerts were played, when the question of the name of the collective was especially acute. It turns out that the original idea was prompted by the listeners! In the same year, the four released three hits, and a year later found their label. Illusions at their own expense guys did not feed, but the first release "exploded" with the effect of a hydrogen bomb. The category of "dark horses" was successfully passed, and managers themselves began to offer their services.

Active and very successful work was almost without interruption for 8 years, but in 2009 the children announced a break, during which they planned to try themselves in solo projects. Alas, the break did not become successful for anyone and was officially completed in 2013. Together, the guys get to perform much better.

After a pause

A new album has been released, orders for sound soundtracks have appeared, so the work does not stop, but the main change is not in the music, but in the faces. Patrick Stump seriously lost weight and no longer resembles a simple guy from the nearest barn. Now it's a man - tall, strong, pretty interesting. The vocalist changed his image, refused jeans, sweaters and caps. This is a brand new Patrick Stump. The guy lost weight without any tricks: he worked hard, slept little and turned on his gym and swimming pool. Dense work schedule and constant activity turned out to be a golden secret. Patrick Stump dropped more than 10 kilograms in a few months.

New image

In 2012, Patrick presented his debut solo in a new form: an extravagant jacket with a bow tie, a shirt, trousers. The singer grew up and moved to a better level of performance, so it's hard to say that Stump has written himself down. In solo swimming, he struck nostalgia, leaving a note of his famous boyish audacity and craving for an alternative. His music - the theme of large cities, skyscrapers and flashing lights. His songs are really sexy and resemble the old school of Michael Jackson. Experiments with the voice of Patrick are successful, and he waltzes from explosive dynamics to tender sensuality.

Who is Stump?

In the spring of 1984, a red-haired, chubby boy with big eyes was born in Glenview. The child was surprisingly talented, as his parents soon became convinced. However, on any courses the family of Patrick Stamp did not write down his child. The heredity affected the birth of a folk singer in the family. Patrick graduated from school, changed several teenage groups, and then found Fall Out Boy, with whom he mastered the lead guitar and began to write songs. In the group he recorded 7 records and began to produce young and promising groups.

To the cinema

Stump has a connection with the film industry. In 2003 he starred in a reality show, where he played himself. Then there were serials "Law and order", "Hill of one tree" and "Doctor House". In 2006, Patrick took up the soundtracks for the movie "Buntarka".

Personal life

In 2012 there was a joyful event - Patrick Stump married. The biography of his girlfriend Eliza Yao is hidden behind seven seals, but maybe it's for the best, because every star needs peace. At the ceremony in Chicago were only close friends and relatives. Patrick publicly described how much his wife meant to him. It was she who gave him the most moral support during the first solo performances, when the guy was showered with rotten tomatoes, demanding the songs of Fall Out Boy. Patrick Stump and his wife are always affectionate, calm and balanced. Their faces are smiles. The wife is the main person in Patrick's life. And two years after the wedding they had a child - the son of Declan.

Facts and figures

• Probably, Patrick is the only musician who is distinguished by glasses in thick frames, sideburns and baseball caps. After changing the image, he managed not to become a typical metrosexual and remained an individual.
• Patrick officially changed the spelling of his name from Stump to Stumph.
• In the series "Hill of a Tree" he played with his bandmates. By the way, they consider Patrick in their own way brilliant.
• Despite the fact that our hero is a vocalist, the frontman of the group continues to consider her founder - Pete Wentz.
• Patrick's father is a great artist, and his older brother Kevin plays beautifully on cello.
• In his spare time, Patrick writes articles on a social subject and is published in newspapers.
• He met Joe Tromen when he worked in a bookstore.
• In music, Patrick loves David Bowie and Prince, and also adores the film "Rushmore Academy."
• In food, Patrick is unpretentious, but prefers pumpkin "squares" of his mother and does not digest the barbecue sauce.
• Even outsiders mark Stump's unusual friendliness, although in a dispute about the texts he once hit Pete's face.
• Patrick's first relationship lasted 4 years.
• The musician lives in Chicago, but has real estate in Los Angeles. He is an Irishman of small stature (164 cm). About himself says that mathematically he analyzes music and loves sea animals.

Despite the great experience in the music industry, Stump remains a vulnerable and doubtful person. At the time when the solo career began, he wrote a letter that flew all over the Internet. In that letter, Patrick complained of the cruelty of many of his own admirers. He wrote letters threatening, forced to return to the group and taunted his fullness. The letter became Patrick's spiritual groan and his pain, because the musician is fully experiencing crisis moments. But he does not consider this period as pessimistic. On the contrary, that time was a test of endurance. Now the musician has proved, what is worth Patrick Stump. The photos of the new "version" of Patrick impressed the fans. He is different, more confident and close to life's realities.

What he says?

A kind of popularity received profound quotes from Patrick Stump. Probably, this is one of the few cases when a representative of such a contradictory profession could go into aphorisms. Patrick said: "Silence is sometimes more eloquent than a cry." Of course, he did not always follow this mantra, and the lyrics were sometimes full of details from his personal life. A real musician does not focus on the theme of love and her accompanying suffering. For Patrick, the texts are saturated with pains and pains. But he does not demonstrate himself from the position of poor and unhappy.

"It's like fighting - to figure out how to put his words on his music, because his voice is completely different from mine, and does not even match the timbre. You can change the whole impression of the song. "

His impressions of working on a new track Patrick also expresses very thoughtfully. He is primarily a creator, but not floating downstream, but fighting with musical waves. That is why his songs are perceived as a whole and incredibly juicy creation without refinements and shortcomings. Can we say that Stump is a virtuoso? No, but you can definitely call him a master of his craft. Perhaps the success in Stump's music is due to his peculiar attitude towards the cause. Each track for him is a confession, and every album is a child that can not turn out bad or good. First of all it's like a child, dear and very loved. When you release such a baby into the world, you are prepared to accept a flurry of disasters, but you hope to meet people whom he will not be indifferent and alien.