Stan Uris

Stanley "Stan" Uris is a founding member of the Loser's Club, and subsequently Shark Puppy. He is happily married to wife Patty Blum, and much of his songwriting is informed by his partnership with her, as well as his Jewish identity, his struggles with anxiety and OCD, and occasional suicidal ideation. He is an avid birdwatcher, and birding metaphors are often utilized in lyrics by or about him.

Musical Origins
"Stan had been taking piano lessons since he was six years old, first from his mother, then from Maggie Tozier, and then from an old woman on the other side of town who "could have been a star, you know" if her Mammy had let her. He loves the piano, and he hates it. He adores the beauty that music can afford him, the purity of it, the way it can say so many things he's afraid to say out loud. But he hates the rigidity of the lessons, the pressure of the discipline, the feeling like he's walking in the footsteps of somebody else, somebody who wants this more than he does, someone who's better at it than he is. He still goes to lessons, although he starts teaching himself too. He likes the Beethoven and the Chopin and the Mozart well enough, but he prefers the late-Romantics, the Impressionists, the Ravels and the Debussys and the Saint-Saëns. His true favor, however, lies with early Schoenberg, with Leonard Bernstein, with Erich Korngold and Jerry Goldsmith. He loves their intelligence, their passion, their pure love of music and creativity. In the evenings when his parents go out, he teaches himself how to play piano like Billy Joel. Vienna is his favorite."