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Scott Stapp
Scott Stapp
Background information
Birth name	Anthony Scott Flippen
Born	August 8, 1973 (age 33)
Origin	Orlando, Florida, USA
Genre(s)	Rock Post-grunge Christian Rock
Instrument(s)	Vocals, Guitar, Keyboards
Label(s)	Blue Collar Wind-Up Sony BMG Music Entertainment
Associated acts	Creed
Website	http://www.scottstapp.com/

Scott Alan Stapp (born Anthony Scott Flippen, August 8, 1973, in Orlando, Florida) is a singer, songwriter, and founding member of the rock band Creed.

Contents 1 Biography 2 Solo career 3 Controversies 4 Trivia 5 References 6 External links

Stapp attended Valencia College in Orlando, where he received his associates degree in the arts.^[1] He then attended Lee College (now known as Lee University) in Cleveland, Tennessee and Florida State University, where Creed was formed.

In VH1's Behind the Music special on Creed, Stapp admitted to frequently disobeying his parents and doing various illegal drugs such as ecstasy and shrooms during his young adulthood.^{[citation needed]}

During interviews, he does not discuss the meanings of his lyrics, as he often prefers to let his lyrics speak for themselves, but he has opened up to the Christian press that he is Christian and has been since in the band Creed.

Stapp cites The Doors, particularly Jim Morrison, as one of his principal musical influences, and performed with the surviving members of the band for a televised concert in 1999, as well as the Stoned Immaculate: The Music of the Doors tribute album.

On February 10, 2006, Stapp married Miss New York USA 2004 winner Jaclyn Nesheiwat in Miami, Florida. This is his second marriage and her first. They welcomed their first child, a baby girl named Milan Hayat Stapp, on January 4, 2007.^[2] He was previously married to Hillaree Burns for 16 months before divorcing in 1999. He has a son from the first marriage, Jagger Stapp.

His debut solo album The Great Divide was released in the U.S. on November 22, 2005, peaking at #19 on Billboard's Top 200 chart. However, due to certain controversies in his private life and overall mixed reviews of the album, it has sold poorly in context to the amount sold with Creed. Due to Wind-Up Records not promoting his album The Great Divide, Scott Stapp is currently off-tour. It remains unknown if he will switch to a new record company.

• California pornography company Red Light District claims to have acquired a 1999 sex tape in which Stapp and singer Kid Rock engage in sex acts with four groupies.^[3] RLD planned to release the tape in 2006, but one of the women involved filed to block it.^[4] Rock also filed an injunction, called Stapp an "idiot" and blamed him for the tape's leak.^[5]

• Stapp was arrested by Florida police in July 2002 and charged with reckless driving after his SUV ran off the road before swerving back into the proper lane. He was released from custody after posting $500.^[6]

• Hours after his wedding to Jaclyn Nesheiwat in Miami, Florida, Stapp was arrested at Los Angeles International Airport. Stapp, en route to his Hawaiian honeymoon, was stopped from boarding a plane at LAX Saturday after airline personnel deemed the rocker "antagonistic" and "boisterous". A spokesman for the airport police said that Stapp was arrested on suspicion of being drunk in a public place and taken to the Van Nuys station for processing. Stapp demanded a blood-alcohol test at the station, where he registered a 0.18--twice the legal limit. He was then booked and released on $250 bail. After a court hearing, he was not charged.^{[citation needed]}

• He was obviously intoxicated during Casino Cinema, a celebrity poker show on the cable channel Spike TV. "During the episode, Stapp slurs his words, curses incessantly, claims Dave Grohl has 'a little cock',' demonstrates a bizarre series of kung-fu moves and demands a kiss from co-host Beth Ostrosky (Howard Stern's girlfriend)."^[7]

• Stapp was also involved in a brawl with members of the band 311 on Thanksgiving day 2005 at a Baltimore hotel^[8] and showed up drunk for a TV interview.^[9] 311's Chad Sexton, SA Martinez and P-Nut claim, on their official website, that Stapp started the fight. However, hotel security director Jonathan Jordan, claims that security cameras captured the incident and that "Stapp was 'attacked' by several members of 311 and that it took two security guards to break up the fight.^[10]

• Scott is featured in the Virgos Merlot song "Brother Of Mine." The song was on the album "The Path of Least Resistance."
• Scott is mentioned in the song "Kountry Gentlemen" by Family Force Five on the "Business Up Front, Party in the Back" album.

• Scott Stapp official website
• Scott Stapp at the Internet Movie Database
• Interview at ChristianityToday.com
• Interview: Scott Stapp - The Great Divide
• Scott Stapp comes clean after drug addictions at Rolling Stone

Creed
Scott Stapp | Mark Tremonti | Scott Phillips
Brian Marshall | Brett Hestla
Discography
Studio Albums: My Own Prison | Human Clay | Weathered | Greatest Hits
Compilations: Stoned Immaculate: The Music of the Doors | Live in the X Lounge
Singles: "My Own Prison" | "What's This Life For" | "Torn" | "One" | "Higher" | "With Arms Wide Open" | "What If" | "Are You Ready?" | "My Sacrifice" | "One Last Breath" | "Weathered" | "Bullets" | "Don't Stop Dancing"
Related articles
Alter Bridge | The Great Divide
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