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Eric Stefani

Overview

Eric Matthew Stefani (born June 17, 1967) is an American pop musician, former Simpsons animator, and Grammy-nominated composer and writer.

Biography

Stefani attended Loara High School in Anaheim, California. He worked at a Dairy Queen with John Spence and his sister Gwen; the three of them formed the band No Doubt.

The group added several members, performing live shows at Fenders Ballroom in Long Beach. The group started writing original material, much of which Eric contributed. Eric left after the band's breakthrough album Tragic Kingdom was recorded, but before it was released, and he and Gwen were nominated at the 1998 Grammy Awards for Song of the Year.

Eric found time between Cypress College and the band to get brief encounters working as a layout animator for cartoon director John Kricfalusi through Lynne Naylor including Mighty Mouse: The New Adventures, Beany and Cecil and the Troop Beverly Hills title sequence. Those jobs lead Eric to work at The Bob Clampett Studio for Ruth Clampett, where he traced 35mm film enlargements of original Bugs Bunny and Porky Pig animation frames to create sericels. During that time Clampett told Eric there was a new project upstairs and that he should take a look. It was The Simpsons.

Eric just finished work on a short animation film titled "Frisbee" (2007), released June 27, 2007, and his most recent effort in a series of solo albums is "Let's Ride Horses" (2007).

Other cartoon shows

*Ren and Stimpy (1994) (Directed by Chris Reccardi) *Edith Ann: A Few Pieces of the Puzzle (1992) *Troop Beverly Hills (opening titles) (1989) (Directed by John K.) *Honey, I Shrunk the Kids (opening titles) (1989) (Directed by Bill Kroyer) *Clampett Studio collections (1989-1990) *Tommy Pickles and the Great White Thing (1991) (Directed by Peter Chung) *The New Beany and Cecil Show (1989) (Directed by Jim Smith) *Mighty Mouse: The New Adventures (1988) (Directed by Kent Butterworth)

T-Shirt designs

*No Doubt T-Shirts *Buckwheat T-Shirts *Marilyn Monroe T-Shirts *Oliver North T-Shirts

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When her brother, Eric Stefani, asked her to join his band No Doubt, she was more than ready. The band's lead singer was John Spence, who Stefani shared vocals with...

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...She performed in costume as the "Dutch Puppet", a name she used as a publishing alias during her early recording career. In 1972 she began attending Loara High School, the same high school that hosted Gwen and Eric Stefani of No Doubt and 1972 Olympic Silver Medal winner Dana Schoenfeld. After her graduation in 1976, Swain auditioned for and won a position in the Ringling Brothers and Barnum & Bailey Circus, where she performed her first year as a showgirl and her second year as an elephant rider...

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*No Doubt T-Shirts *Buckwheat T-Shirts *Marilyn Monroe T-Shirts *Oliver North T-Shirts

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...He worked at a Dairy Queen with John Spence and his sister Gwen; the three of them formed the band No Doubt....

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John Spence, Eric Stefani, and Eric's sister Gwen founded No Doubt in mid 1986, having worked together at a local Dairy Queen...

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...When the band moved into a house on Beacon Avenue in Anaheim, he wrote a poem about being addicted to television. He took the poem to Eric Stefani, who put the poem to music and came up with the song "Trapped in a Box". The song was recorded for the band's self-titled debut album and was the album's only single...

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...Eric found time between Cypress College and the band to get brief encounters working as a layout animator for cartoon director John Kricfalusi through Lynne Naylor including Mighty Mouse: The New Adventures, Beany and Cecil and the Troop Beverly Hills title sequence...
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