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STARS DOWN is...
Let's just throw away the typical "put four cool people in a room and see what happens" bio. Stars Down has fun, and brings a creative mixture of sound that is made up of an internationally acclaimed singer who sounds like a bastard music child of Freddie Mercury and Jeff Buckley, his long time friend and Stars Down co-founder and drummer who looks like a superhero, an ethereal keyboardist with an affinity for Shamanism, and an enigmatic bass player that will hold your attention with his stage presence and make your ass move.
The band's influences collectively range everywhere from Jeff Buckley to The Cure to The Smashing Pumpkins to Queen, however Stars Down's music remains very fresh, very new, and very much their own.
The creation of Stars Down is the most recent brainchild of Lukas Rossi (vocals, guitar) whose songwriting career has spanned a fruitful seventeen years (Cleavage, Rise Electric, Rock Star Supernova), and Jon Jamieson (drums), Lukas’ childhood friend and Cleavage band mate. While on two major acoustic tours of the United States and Canada, Lukas added to the Stars Down entourage his keyboard player, Lou Dawson, who faithfully endured 36 sold out shows across Canada and bumpy rides crammed in the back of an SUV. Rounding out the lineup of Stars Down is the charismatic German Briseño (bass), who brings loads of tour experience, and a vocal harmony that helps complete the Stars Down sound.
Lukas Rossi and Jon Jamieson, both natives of Toronto, Ontario now transplanted to Los Angeles, California, share with their former Cleavage band mates the accolade of winning the Best Unsigned Band contest at NXNE in 2000. Since that time, Lukas has been involved in projects that have brought him major media attention, and has been very successful as a songwriter through his publishing deal with EMI Music Publishing. Lukas has written and/or performed with well-known artists, including Papa Roach, I Mother Earth, Tea Party, Edwin, Big Wreck, The Philosopher Kings, Prozac, Rush guitarist Alex Lifeson, and Chris Daughtry. On world tour as the lead vocalist for Rock Star Supernova (Tommy Lee, Gilby Clarke, Johnny Colt), Lukas performed in arenas spanning the United States, Canada, Australia and New Zealand.
No stranger to the stage and television, Lukas performed live at the 2006 Gemini awards, appeared on (and won) the CBS television series Rock Star: Supernova (9 million viewers in the US, another 9 million worldwide), as well as appearing on Ellen, Regis & Kelly, The Jimmy Kimmel Show, Entertainment Tonight, and ET Canada.
Lukas Rossi and Stars Down are ready to bring their collective alternative rock talents--from heart-wrenching ballads to balls out rock n’ roll--to the hungry ears of music fans everywhere.
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