51 Facts About Patrick Stump

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Patrick Stump is the lead vocalist and rhythm guitarist of the rock band Fall Out Boy, originally from Wilmette, Illinois.

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Patrick Stump toured in the US and Europe in support.

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Patrick Stump grew up in Glenview, Illinois, and attended Glenbrook South High School.

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Patrick Stump's parents divorced when he was eight years old.

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Patrick Stump is the lead vocalist, guitarist, and primary composer for the band, with bassist Pete Wentz taking lyrical duties.

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In January 2010, Patrick Stump announced he was working on a self-written, performed and produced solo album.

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Patrick Stump explained that he named the album Soul Punk because he wanted to contribute to the musical vernacular of both.

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Patrick Stump performed new songs at his debut solo performance at SXSW 2010 in Austin, Texas, including "As Long As I Know I'm Getting Paid" and "Love, Selfish Love", which may have originally been from an earlier version of his solo album, but have since been included as a part of his solo debut EP, Truant Wave.

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Patrick Stump expressed that after months he still could not decide which version he liked better and asked his fans to vote on a poll for the version of the single they liked better and wanted to have on the album.

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Patrick Stump released the first EP of his solo career, Truant Wave, digitally on February 22,2011, through his own record label, Nervous Breakdance Media.

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The "I feel like I'm gonna explode" phrase came from his song "Explode", which Patrick Stump premiered at his live show and ended up on Soul Punk.

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On June 27,2011, Patrick Stump wrote on his Facebook and Twitter page, "Tuesday".

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The next day, Patrick Stump released a remix of a Soul Punk track, "This City", featuring rapper Lupe Fiasco.

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Patrick Stump played twelve small shows around the United States in support of Soul Punk and Truant Wave.

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Patrick Stump visited Chicago, Boston, Philadelphia, New York, Los Angeles, and San Francisco.

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Patrick Stump performed in a sleek black tuxedo, white moon boots and fingerless leather gloves, and on some songs he played the electric guitar.

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In May 2011, Patrick Stump was the opening act for Bruno Mars and Janelle Monae on their "Hooligans In Wondaland Tour" for four shows.

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Patrick Stump began his second US tour August 3,2011.

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Patrick Stump has been a guest at many radio shows.

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Patrick Stump says that in the last 6 months of going silent he has taken acting classes and co-written and collaborated with other musicians.

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On July 18,2016, Patrick Stump won Best Vocalist at the 2016 Alternative Press Music Awards for his efforts in Fall Out Boy.

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Patrick Stump produced the song "Little Weapon" on Lupe Fiasco's The Cool.

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Patrick Stump was featured in a song by hip-hop group The Roots originally intended for their 2008 album Rising Down.

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Patrick Stump remixed Good Charlotte's "Little Things" for their remix compilation, Greatest Remixes.

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Also, Patrick Stump signed and gave away two of his signature guitars that he used to record Fall Out Boy's fifth album, Folie a Deux.

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Patrick Stump has another Stump-O-Matic with white and silver stripes, which he used for most of the guitar recording on Soul Punk and at his solo concerts.

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On September 23,2012, Patrick Stump contributed lead guitar and vocals for a performance of "Black Hole Sun" with Robert Glasper Experiment at the London iTunes Festival.

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Patrick Stump later contributed vocals to the track "I Stand Alone", on the album Black Radio 2, which premiered September 23,2013.

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Patrick Stump created his own version of the theme song for The CW's TV series, One Tree Hill, featured on the third episode of season 8, The Space in Between.

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Patrick Stump provided a song for Season 5 Episode 3 Big Trouble in Little Clerks 2 of Adult Swim's Robot Chicken in which he parodied James Cameron's Avatar.

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Patrick Stump composed an original ride score for the on-ride audio system for the enhanced Incredible Hulk Coaster, a roller coaster at Islands of Adventure theme park in Orlando, which re-opened on August 4,2016.

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Patrick Stump was later given songwriting credits on two songs off the album, Sober and San Diego.

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Patrick Stump co-wrote 10 Victoria's Secret Angels for MAX's studio album Hell's Kitchen Angel, who MAX described as 'one of his favorite collaborations'.

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Patrick Stump has song writing credits on Black Veil Brides frontman, Andy Black's, debut solo album The Shadow Side, contributing to the album's leading single, "We Don't Have to Dance".

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Patrick Stump has scored the music for a new short film adaptation of Alice In Wonderland, Wonderland, a comedic take on the classic tale, as well as worked on the music for Gnome Alone and the upcoming comedy-drama Changeland.

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In September, 2018, Patrick Stump announced he'd be the composer for the first feature film, entitled Spell, produced by Crush Pictures, a subsidiary of Crush Management of which Fall Out Boy and Patrick Stump are members.

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On working on the documentary, Patrick Stump stated that he was first approached to compose only for the documentary's trailer, but was then asked to compose music for the whole series.

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Patrick Stump explained how composing is something he has always wanted to do, despite not being classically trained.

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Patrick Stump wrote the theme song and is the composer for 2021 animated television series Spidey and His Amazing Friends on Disney Junior.

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Patrick Stump has written songs for the Netflix animated series Dead End: Paranormal Park.

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Patrick Stump appeared in the second episode of Season 18 as Marty Dressler, a lowly employee of an electrical company, who is suspected in the kidnapping of the wife and daughter of an executive.

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Patrick Stump made a short film in 2009, Moustachette which has been shown at film festivals.

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Patrick Stump guest-starred as a lab technician on an episode of House in the episode "We Need the Eggs", which aired on April 16,2012.

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Alongside his live-action appearances, Patrick Stump has partook in a few voice acting roles, particularly in a handful of Robot Chicken sketches and, most recently, providing the voice for the character Ruberiot in the Disney XD cartoon Star vs the Forces of Evil, where he provided his vocal talents for the song "The Ballad of Star Butterfly".

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Patrick Stump has appeared in The Young Blood Chronicles, Fall Out Boy's eleven-part music video story to support the band's 2013 album Save Rock and Roll with bandmates.

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In March 2014, Patrick Stump sang "Let's Get It On" by Marvin Gaye as the first dance at his step-brother's wedding.

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Patrick Stump announced in September 2014 that he and his wife were expecting their first child, and on 13 October their son Declan was born.

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Patrick Stump lost 65 pounds when Fall Out Boy went on hiatus, due in part to growing health issues, including asthma and pre-diabetes, with which he was diagnosed.

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Patrick Stump suffered from high cholesterol and high blood pressure as well.

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In 2012, Patrick Stump was elected a member of the National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences's Chicago Chapter Governors.

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Patrick Stump's influences include bands such as The Beatles and Green Day, and artists such as Elvis Costello, John Cage, Marvin Gaye, Nina Simone, Tom Waits, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Ludwig van Beethoven, Sergei Prokofiev, Dmitri Shostakovich, Igor Stravinsky, John Williams, Danny Elfman, Erich Wolfgang Korngold, and Jerry Goldsmith.