Jake Shears (born Jason Sellards on October 3, 1977 in Arizona) is the male singer for the American alternative music group the Scissor Sisters. He has also collaborated with Tiga and wrote the hit single "I Believe In You" for Kylie Minogue.
Jake went to college in Los Angeles with an old schoolfriend of Babydaddy; when at age 19 he went to visit her in Lexington, Kentucky, he met Babydaddy. They hit it off immediately and, a year later, both moved to New York. For a while, they were fixtures on the New York gay and electroclash scene and then Scissor Sisters, the club-based rock band, were born.
Soon the Sisters went on to take New York - and the UK/Ireland - by storm. In concert, Shears is known for provocative dancing and often going near-nude, hearkening back to his former occupation - stripper in a gay bar.
