Stephen Richard Kellogg (born November 28, 1976) is an American singer-songwriter and founder and former frontman of Stephen Kellogg and the Sixers.
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Career
Kellogg founded his band Stephen Kellogg and the Sixers in 2003. The band has been on hiatus since 2012. Kellogg has consistently toured since then, billed simply as “Stephen Kellogg." Past members of the Sixers have joined him on stage occasionally.
In 2013, Kellogg gave a TEDx talk about job satisfaction. Its YouTube video has gained over 200,000 views.
On February 12, 2016, Kellogg released the album South, West, North, East. The premise of the album was to record each section in a different region of the USA, with different co-producers and groups of musicians.
On March 23, 2018, Kellogg performed at O.A.R.'s Concert for Dreams at The Beacon Theatre in New York City.
Kellogg released the album Objects In The Mirror on November 23, 2018.
Charity work
Each year during Christmas, Kellogg donates handwritten lyrics to raise money for St Jude's Children's Hospital and other charities. In 2015, Kellogg was part of the Bedstock lineup, the world’s first in-bed music festival, to raise awareness and funds for MyMusicRx, a program of the Children’s Cancer Association.
Performing for the Troops
Kellogg habitually visits military bases to perform musical numbers for service men and women serving both domestically and overseas. The Sixers toured with Armed Forces Entertainment in 2009 and 2010 to bring “home” to the troops in places like Kuwait, Israel, Bahrain and Ramstein Hospital in Germany. In 2010, Kellogg & the Sixers were named the "Armed Forces Entertainer of the Year".
During the summer of 2014, they traveled to Africa and again, to the Middle East to play for troops.
Personal life
Kellogg grew up in southern Connecticut. In 1997, he began his musical career in Northampton, Massachusetts while interning for a local club. A few years later, he married his high school sweetheart and began a well-publicized affection for his role as husband and later, father to their four daughters.
Discography
Invest in Us – 1994
Rain Summer – The Stephen Kellogg Band – 1995
Buffalo – Stephen Kellogg and the Root Cellar Band – 1997
South of Stephen – 2000
Muskrats, Mullets & Mesh Caps – 2001
The Early Hits (1992–1997) – 2002
Lucky 11 – 2002
Bulletproof Heart – The Stephen and The Sixers – 2004
Stephen Kellogg and the Sixers – The Stephen and The Sixers – 2005
The First Waltz – The Stephen and The Sixers – 2006 – CD/DVD set
Glassjaw Boxer – The Stephen and The Sixers – 2007
The Bear – The Stephen and The Sixers – 2009
Live from the Heart: 1000th Show, Irving Plaza, NYC – The Stephen and The Sixers – 2010
Gift Horse – The Stephen and The Sixers – 2011
Blunderstone Rookery – 2013
South West North East – 2016
Tour De Forty: Greatest Hits (So Far) Live – 2017
Objects in the Mirror – 2018
Keep It Up, Kid – 2022