Scott Stapp, the powerful voice behind the band Creed, is celebrating a birthday. The rock frontman turns 53 on Aug. 8, more than 25 years after Creed’s “With Arms Wide Open” became a No. 1 hit.
Stapp rose to fame as Creed’s frontman in the late 1990s, but it was the power ballad “With Arms Wide Open” that gave the group a permanent place in rock history. The song, written by Stapp and Mark Tremonti about the emotions of impending fatherhood, reached No. 1 on the Billboard Hot 100 in November 2000 and won the Grammy Award for Best Rock Song in 2001.
Stapp once said the success of the song was life-changing for him.
“It changed my life, and I have just a sense of appreciation for that song coming to me and Mark when it did and it’s still relevant in my life today,” he told Kyle Brandt’s The Ringer, per Loudwire.
More than two decades after Creed’s breakthrough, Stapp continues to make music and often reflects on the band’s enduring legacy.
After forming in the mid-1990s in Tallahassee, Florida, Creed recorded hits such as “My Own Prison,” “Higher,” “My Sacrifice,” and headlined an iconic 2001 NFL Thanksgiving Day halftime show performance before splitting in 2004. The band has since had several revivals and reunions. Stapp also joined the supergroup Art of Anarchy and released four solo albums.
Over the years, Stapp has been vocal about his struggles with sobriety and other difficuties in his personal life.
In 2024, he told People magazine, “I’ve gone through a pretty difficult period in life over the last four years. I’m hanging in there — just one hour at a time, one thing at a time. Taking little bites of the elephant and then just waking up again and doing it all over the next day. A lot going on, but all good stuff.”
Stapp also explained why he always feels the need to make music, even when he’s not in a band.
“I feel compelled to create. It’s who I am,” the singer shared. “So if I’m not doing it with Creed, there’s a void. I have to do it. There’s stuff in me as an artist and as a creative that I have to get out. Music is my method of doing that.”
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In recent years, Stapp has often marveled over the fact that Creed’s music has been introduced to new, younger audiences, with some songs going viral on social media platforms such as TikTok.
“And then you look at the analytics, and you realize that when you look at the numbers, it's three generations,” he said in a 2024 radio interview with I-Rock 93.5, per Blabbermouth.net. “And now it's gotten down into high school kids. And so, what a gift and what a blessing. And I do not take that for granted. I understand how rare that is.”
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