The First Song Scott Stapp Ever Sang in Public (At 9 Years Old)

In a brand new interview, Creed singer Scott Stapp recalled his first-ever public efficiency, which was at 9 years previous, and what tune he sang. He additionally spoke about his daughter’s aspiration to be a shred guitarist.

Stapp was a visitor on Cutter’s RockSolid, chatting in regards to the newest issues occurring in his life, together with his hard-hitting new solo single “Higher Power,” his gratitude for his profession in music and Creed’s reunion aboard subsequent 12 months’s Summer of ’99 and Summer of ’99 & Beyond cruise competition.

The First Song Scott Stapp Ever Sang in Public

“If I want to go back to my first live performance at 9 years old, I’ve been doing this 41 years,” Stapp says, marveling at simply how lengthy he is been enjoying music for.

“I’m feeling good and very grateful that I’ve had this opportunity to follow my dream and my passion and to connect with people. I mean, what a gift. And I’m grateful for that,” he continues.

“I sang ‘Yesterday’ by The Beatles in front of the school. I was 9 years old and that was my first solo,” Stapp tells Cutter when requested about what tune he sang stay.

From that second, he was hooked.

“The reaction from the audience after I sang the song was, I think, the spark the lit the fire within that led me to the path of rock ‘n’ roll,” the 50-year-old singer affirms, occurring to say two albums that additionally performed an enormous position in his pleasure over music.

“Now, I’ve got to credit Def Leppard, Pyromania and I’ve got to credit U2, Joshua Tree. Between those three things, I kind of found my calling early, so to speak,” Stapp goes on.

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Scott Stapp’s Daughter Wants to Be a Guitar Shredder

The Creed frontman is not the one one in the household with a ardour for music and Stapp elaborates on his teenage daughter Milán’s curiosity in music.

“I was Facetiming my daughter and she set the phone down and she said, ‘Dad, I’m right in the middle of something,’ so I said, ‘What are you doing?’ And she’s on her Les Paul [guitar], I can hear the amp in the back and she’s learning ‘Master of Puppets’ by Metallica and I’m like, ‘That’s my girl!’ Tears came in my eyes,” Stapp beams, wanting ahead to when they’ll share a particular stay second collectively. “I can’t wait for the day that I can call her out onstage to shred with her dad,” he enthuses.

A proud father, Stapp relays, “She’s going through all the late ’90s and early ’90s rock bands and when she’s not playing their music, all I hear up in her room is [imitates guitar] scales. She wants to be a shredder. She really looks up to [Creed and Alter Bridge guitarist] Mark Tremonti’s playing and, of course, Yiannis Papadopoulos in my solo band. Those are two guitar heroes of hers, so she puts in the work. It blows me away.”

Listen to the total interview beneath.