Jason F. Sellards (born October 3, 1978), better known as Jake Shears, is an American singer and songwriter. He is best known as the lead male singer for the pop band Scissor Sisters.
Shears was born in Mesa, Arizona,[1] the son of an entrepreneur father and a Baptist mother. He grew up on San Juan Island, Washington,[2] where he attended school at Friday Harbor High School and was bullied.[3] At the age of 18, he moved into a dorm at the Northwest School in Seattle, Washington to finish high school. Shears later attended Occidental College in Los Angeles, California. At the age of 19, he traveled to Lexington, Kentucky to visit a classmate, who introduced him to Scott Hoffman.[citation needed] Shears and Hoffman hit it off immediately and moved to New York a year later.