Band - Stead

Stead, acronyms of his real name Stefano Antoci D'Agostino was born in Ragusa, southern Sicily, on September 13 1978. He moved to Milan with the family when he was only 4 years old. After several experiences with local bands, in 1998 he founds as vocalist, guitarist and main author the alternative rock project Mud Hair Jongleur. The band releases two independent albums (“The way that tree bends” 2000 and “The Sunlover's Tale” 2004), playing more than 300 live acts all over the country and opening for international artists like Deep Purple, Johnny Lang and many popular local rock bands. In 2005 he moves to New York City (U.S) where he starts to approach folk music and solo acoustic sets with exhibitions in the most popular clubs of the Greenwich Village. During the american experience his style immediately turns into something very far from the rock aggressiveness of the early years. His new approach, influenced by New York song writing music scene now bases on "radical acoustic folk atmospheres and deep whispered narrative interlacements sometimes crashed by reminiscences of his innate rock attitude". For the most important Italian newspaper Il Corriere della Sera "He's now the delicate heritage of artists like Jeff Buckley and Damien Rice". This second artistic life brings him to travel Europe mixing different influences and playing more than 100 shows as opening act for established indie realities like Bob Wiseman, Munck/Johnsonn, Alina Simone, Poems for Laila, Cesare Basile, PeterPiek, Kat Frankie, Lisa Papineau, Barbez, Dave Muldoon, The Alma Church Choir, Sarah Noni Metzer and many others. During the 2008 more than 70 shows promoted all across the continent the EP “Following Steps”. The same thing happened the year after with the "?!"Ep Tour. Now "ROUGH" is the new digipak collection of rough mix versions and demos recorded during the last two years with the collaboration of Cesare Basile (John Parish), Giuliano Dottori, Roberta Cartisano, the american-irish Dave Muldoon and many other italian incredible musicians. A big experience in a small attitude, always remebering that "the smallest thing is often the most precious" like "City" lovingly defined his music. Stead recently moved to London to start a new artistic season that will give life to his long-awaited official debut. Always moving, always looking for something, always respectfully standing on the border line of the front row.