Jean-François Stinco was born in Quebec – Canada, August 22, 1978. He’s the only band member with a background in music. Before joining Simple Plan, he gave guitar lessons and was also part of other bands: The Atomic Bananas and Madman’s Tale. He formed SP with his school friends Pierre Bouvier, Chuck Comeau and Sebastien Lefebvre. Stinco has been agent of a Canadian band called The No No Spots, and even produced one of their albums.
In early 2007, Stinco had his first daughter named Maya Stinco. Later, in mid-2008, Zoey Stinco was born, his second daughter with his fiancée France Turgeon.
By Twitter, Jeff told the fans that would do a surgery on his shoulder. The surgery went well, but he couldn’t grind his pepper for a while.
Speaking to CSP, Jeff said that the track “Astronaut” is his favorite one of the album “Get Your Heart On!”.
Curiosities
- Son of Francine Bergeron-Stinco, Jean-Philippe and Jean-Vital’s brother. His dad died of cancer.
- Tem duas filhas, Maya Stinco (nascida em 2007) e ZoeyStinco (nascida em 2008), com sua namorada, France Turgeon.
- He is lactose intolerant.
- When he was younger, he had a long hair.
- Has two tattoos on his right arm.
- He helped Sebastien’s brother, Jay Lefebvre, to produce the Don’t Look Down’s album.
- For 6 months, became involved with an independent label called Milagro Records, but after misunderstandings, he gave up.
- Was in a French canadian movie called Nitro.
“Sorry Mom, I just wanna play guitar for the rest of my life” – Jeff Stinco
