Ryan Star Biography (Courtesy Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia)

R. Star (Ryan Star) (born January 7 1978) is a singer/songwriter, pianist, and guitarist. He was also a reality television contestant on the CBS show Rock Star: Supernova.

Biography

Star was born in Huntington, Long Island, New York. He was just 14 years old when he formed his first band called Stage. In addition to Ryan, the band consisted of members Petr Enselmo, Greg Meyer and Justin Parker. They released a handful of EPs, and in 2003 a self-titled album on Maverick Records. While still in high school the band played the CBGB's and the Mercury Lounge. When the band parted ways Justin Parker began the project known as Cortez the Killer and Star became the solo artist R.Star.

Accomplishments

• A "Featured Artist" on MySpace
• Billboard magazine said "R. Star is the kind of singer/ songwriter whose rock ballads make a rainy day all the more drearily picturesque".
• A former contestant on the reality TV show, Rockstar: Supernova.
• Released a 20 track debut CD called Songs from the Eye of An Elephant on September 19th, 2006 in-stores across North America.
• Numerous cover songs available through iTunes, including Live's "I Alone", Nine Inch Nails's Head Like a Hole, R.E.M.'s "Losing My Religion", and Coldplay's "Clocks."
• signed with Atlantic Records and is working on his first album on the label

Rock Star: Supernova

Star was one of the contestants on the CBS reality television show of the second season of Rock Star. The show was a talent show type reality series in which the band Supernova was looking for a lead singer to front their band. The show's producer and the drummer of the band was Tommy Lee. On the show, Ryan consistently showed his diverse style from melodic and moving piano to rocking the Rolling Stones. During his run on the show he was nicknamed Ryan "The Darkhorse" Star by Dave Navarro.

He was eventually eliminated from the show. Though no definite reason was given by Supernova it is possible that it was because of a lack of overlap between his style and theirs. Days after his elimination, Mark Burnett, the show's producer, set up Ryan and the show's House Band to record a live album, to help Ryan jump start his career. Star returned to the show on week 11 with the help of his fans through SMS voting, to perform an encore performance of "Back of Your Car," and was awarded with a Honda CR-V.

Trivia

• Star lost a guitar he had kept since he was 14 on the plane to Los Angeles for Rock Star: Supernova.
• "Back of Your Car" was a song written for a Stage EP that was never printed, at the time of that band's demise in 2004. The song was then titled "Perfect Time of Night".
• Known as Ryan Star Stahr until the release of his first solo record.
• Ryan Star was featured on tour with Cheyenne Kimball in October 2006.
• After the break up of Stage, Ryan mailed 100 copies of a limited three song EP including, "We Might Fall", "So Ordinary", and an acoustic version of Stage's "Perfect". The EP came with a photocopied letter written in his hand.
• Ryan plays all of the instruments on Songs From the Eye of an Elephant

Discography

• Songs from the Eye of An Elephant
• Dark Horse

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