biographical info
"Jerry Stamp is releasing five albums this year - what are you doing?" -The Scope Magazine
Jerry Stamp hates writing in the third person about himself and pretending somebody else did it! So he won't.
Here
is the quick and dirty: I graduated with a Bachelor of Music Degree
from Memorial University of Newfoundland in 2002 and promptly moved to
Toronto with my band King Nancy. We lived there for four years slugging
it out, playing gigs, making records (3 studio albums, and 2 live
albums) and touring anywhere that would have us. But after four years
of the aforementioned slugging We decided it was time to move home, get
away from the business of music and get back to the love of it.
Once
home I began playing high energy, emotionally intense solo gigs and
focusing on that as my main musical output. Last year I played over 120
shows, got myself a home studio setup and began recording. I released
'Racing Bad Weather' in December of 2008 in conjunction with an Eastern
Canadian tour. The winter of 2009 I began writing and haven't stopped
yet. That was when I decided to push myself to release 5 albums in one
calendar year. With 'Racing Bad Weather' already out and plans to
release 2 Christmas albums just in time for the yule season of 2009, I
had to squeeze out two more albums. The lengthy titled 'There Is
Something In Me That Makes Me Like To Think I Wish I Could Be' to be
released in July, and the followup 'Bloodwork' released in late
august. Each album containing 13 tracks of brand new material. Written,
recorded and mixed at home.
The Past: I grew up in St.John's,
Newfoundland, edge of the known universe, where old world and new world
collide. It is impossible to not absorb that culture and make it part
of you and your music. Many years of singing in award winning and world
traveling choirs led me to enter the Bachelor of Classical Music degree
program at Memorial University (yes, I sing opera!). I figured if I was
going to pursue a career in the music industry I had best know what I
was at! Since then I have been featured numerous times on TV and Radio
and toured extensively as both a soloist and as frontman for the band
King Nancy. I have been the recipient of grants from FACTOR (of which I
am also an accredited Juror), The Government of Newfoundland and
Labrador, The Newfoundland and Labrador Arts Council, and MusicNL, and
have showcased at CMW, JUNOFest, the ECMAs, WEMF, COCA, the George
Street Festival, The George Street Mardi Gras, and many other
festivals. I have shared the stage with the likes of Broken Social
Scene, Ameilia Curran, Oh Susanna, I Mother Earth, Sam Roberts, Murray
McLaughlin, Danko Jones, Pilate (now Known as Pilot Speed), Mobile, and
the list goes on and continues just as varied as it started. I have
been hailed as a type O of the music industry. I can play anywhere with
anyone. Recently Nominated for two MusicNL awards (best Rock, Male Artist)