Stephen R. Swanson II

Stephen R. Swanson II shares a birthplace with Lucille Ball and Roger Tory Peterson. His ethnically ambiguous look comes from a Scandinavian father and a West Indian mother. Stephen is bilingual. As a child, he learned his mother's native tongues, Spanish and West Indian Creole (A dialect of the Caribbean.) His father is a music teacher and provided Stephen with many instruments as a boy. Stephen's favorite instrument is the acoustic classical guitar. From age 6 to 19, Stephen played organized ice hockey and attended the same select youth hockey camp as Patrick Kane, winger for the Chicago Blackhawks. Less than one month after the death of his best friend and producer, Nicholas Alexander Parks (age 24), Stephen left his birthplace of Western New York to fulfill his ambitions and the ambitions of his late friend.