Singer Patrick Stump and photographer Nigel Barker are celebrating their birthdays today, April 27.

Patrick Stump, 31

Singer-songwriter, musician, record producer, actor and music critic Patrick Stump turns 31 today. Stump started his career as the front-man to the rock/pop group Fall Out Boy. Stump released six studio albums with Fall Out Boy and received a Best New Artist nomination at the 2006 Grammy Awards.

Aside from Fall Out Boy, stump did some solo work which included lending vocals on tracks by artists like Gym Class Heroes, Timbaland, Cobra Starship, The Roots and Tyga. Stump also produced and wrote songs for these artists and more.

Stump released his debut solo studio album, Soul Punk in 2011. It peaked at No. 47 on the Billboard 200 chart and was positively reviewed.

Fall Out Boy reunited in 2013 with their album Save Rock and Roll and its hit track "My Songs Know What You Did in the Dark (Light Em Up)." They released their sixth album American Beauty/American Psycho in January 2015. Their single, "Centuries," went double platinum and peaked at No. 10 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart.

Stump is married to Elisa Yao and has a son named Declan.


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Nigel Barker, 43

Fashion photographer, author, television personality, spokesperson, filmmaker and former model Nigel Barker turns 43 today. Barker started his career as a model after entering a televised model search in which he became a finalist. After changes in the modeling industry, he decided to transition into photography.

Barker opened StudioNB, a photography studio in Manhattan. He has done work for numerous companies including GQ, Lucky, Town & Country, Seventeen, Lexus, Jordache, Ford and Sony.

Barker became a judge on Tyra Banks' modeling reality show America's Next Top Model for 17 cycles. In 2007, he was an official judge for the Miss America Pageant and for the Miss Universe Pageant in 2012. He later appeared as a photographer on the third cycle of Canada's Next Top Model and on the first cycle of Mexico's Next Top Model.

Barker transitioned into directing with the documentary A Sealed Fate?. He went on to direct two more documentaries, Generation Free and Haiti: Hunger and Hope. In 2010, he published the book Nigel Barker's Beauty Equation: Revealing a Better and More Beautiful You.

Barker is currently married to model and CoverGirl representative Cristen Chin. They have two children, Jack and Jasmine.


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