Jean-François “Jeff” Stinco is a French-Canadian and half Italian musician, who is best known as the lead guitarist Simple Plan.
He was born on August 22, 1978. in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. He has a Daughter born in 2007.
He got the nickname “Jeff” when his friends decided to call him “JF” for short since many of his English friends couldn’t pronounce his name.
Stinco attended College Beaubois High School in Pierrefonds, Quebec along with bandmates Sébastien Lefebvre, Chuck Comeau and Pierre Bouvier.
He studied classical guitar for 10 years and he was a guitar teacher.
Beside his Simple Plan projects, Stinco also contributed to the Rush tribute CD released in 2005 titled Subdivisions: “A Tribute To Rush”” and performs on the Rush hit “The Spirit of Radio”.
He is owner of restaurant Mangiafoco in Old Montreal.
“When you care about something very much, you need to put every single cell of your body in action to make it happen. Hope, dream, gratitude.”
“A life without music would be like a life in black and white.”
Jeff Stinco
Simple Plan 
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