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'Twas
a cold night in Upper Marlboro, MD, 12 minutes after midnight on February
7th in the year 1981, when Nathan Charles DeBord came into this world
kicking and screaming (in E minor).  From a very young age, he could
tell that music was more important to him than it was to most other
people in his life. He grew up on classic rock and pop music but it
wasn't until he received Alice In Chains' self-titled album, followed
quickly by Metallica's that something really clicked for him. He liked
the raw emotion of rock and roll and wanted to be a part of it as
much as possible.
He started on the guitar at age 16 but went to bass a couple years
later after figuring that he wasn't going to pass his two guitar-playing
friends in technical ability anytime soon…one of those friends
was Matt Bauer. The switch to bass meant an easier time for both
Matt and Nathan to find someone to jam with so this lead to both
of them playing more and more. Eventually thoughts of a band formed
and they found singer/rapper Sheldon Brown…he was the first
in a long line of musicians that would eventually lead to Stokley
Rose. Nathan made his way to his 3rd different college, Berklee
College of Music, in 2001 to pursue a career in the recording industry.
When graduation came around, he had to make a choice between trying
to keep the music dream alive with Matt or head to NY or LA to work
for nothing, crash on people's couches, and eat nothing but bologna-on-hand
sandwiches. The rockstar lifestyle sounded a lot more attractive
so he came back home and, after a metal band, a blues band, and
a reggae-pop band, the members of Stokley Rose finally found their
way to each other.
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