WATCH: Rockstar Pedigree w/ Dee Snider for Playstation's classic Singstar 80's Game Open!

March 15th, 1955: The birth year of Rock n’ Roll, Disneyland, and my famous father, DEE SNIDER. Dad would be inspired by people’s reaction to the Beatles and decide to be a rockstar from an early age. Eventually hooking up with Twisted Sister and rapidly becoming a Tri-State (New York, New Jersey & Connecticut) Phenomenon! Twisted Sister packed clubs by the thousands for years with out much mainstream success, eventually earning their big break over seas and returning to the states triumphantly. Their songs “We’re Not Gonna Take It” and “I Wanna Rock” have stood the test of time as stadium anthems known the world over. I idolized my father from birth. My mom would leave MTV on at our house 24/7 to catch glimpses of our touring patriach. Music videos for Twisted Sister's songs were staples of the booming music channel and I was thrilled to see my monster drag queen father on the tube every day. I didn’t see much of my father for the first few years of my life outside of the TV, but boy did I want to be just like him. As I grew, so did my appreciation for my father as an artist, performer and man. Fighting the PMRC over album labeling in the 80s would become my favorite part of my father’s legacy. My father was singled out by the PMRC’s list of the “Filthy Fifteen” and was actually the ONLY artist to be criticized by them that actually showed up to Washington to fight for all of our freedom. That’s what I wanted to do, change the world for the better like my father before me. Even though I had been writing songs since I was a toddler, music wasn’t necessarily the obvious path I would take, I had many interests and music was my dad’s thing. I bounced around from band to band as a teenager, starting to play for real at 13. My father was supportive, but the antithesis of a stage dad, he felt that if I wanted to be a musician, it had to come from inside me. At 17, my dad and I had a conversation that would put me on the path to following in his footsteps when he told me I “had no passion.” I am probably one of the most passionate people you will ever meet and this all encompassing statement drove me to prove my father wrong. Dad has since clarified that he meant that he didn’t think I had a particular passion for music, he thought I was more passionate about comic books, art and toys. I wasn’t simply obsessed with music the way that my father had been. None the less the words rang in my head and I was on a mission to prove my passion for music. Initially, I tried to go out and play as “Jesse Blaze” as to not take advantage of my rockstar pedigree, but I was quick to realize that even though I could remove the benefit of the name by not using it, it would never stop people from finding out who I was and accusing me of “riding coattails” anyway. So, eventually "Jesse Blaze Snider", son of "Dee Snider" began to rear his head. There were many bumps along the way, but over time I began to impress the hell out of my father and the two of us began to play shows together! I was invited to open for Dad himself, Twisted Sister and a number of different Dee Snider created music projects through the early 2000s converting many of my father’s fans into Jesse Blaze fans. Eventually the two of us would even begin to sing together on stage! A surreal experience for both of us. As the years went by I struggled for recognition from the music business and nearly quit music all together on a few occasions, but my dad and my mom, Suzette, would now keep pushing me forward, more impressed with their son than ever and growing all the more impressed with every song they heard. The modern music industry was not the music industry that my father had come up in, there was no club scene to make a name for yourself in, MTV was dying and he didn’t really know how to help me break out. I soldiered on, moving from my aggressive punk/mental band Baptized By Fire, into a more Blues influenced solo endeavor. A move to Los Angeles in 2012 would open a lot of doors for me as I began to write with every producer who would meet me, eventually landing huge song placements with the NFL, NASCAR, NCAA and more! Recognition at last.

“16” is dedicated to my mother, Suzette Guilot Snider who never stopped pushing me and reminding me of my greatness, but I would not be where I am today without the inspiration and shining example provided by my father, Dee Snider. My all time favorite song is “You Can’t Stop Rock ’n’ Roll” and I like to think it’s about legacy. It’s about me picking up where my father left off. Dee Snider makes self help music. Music meant to inspire the next generation to be unafraid to be themselves and follow their dreams, if anyone was going to get the message it was me. I hope to make an impact in the lives of my listeners the same way my father did for so many millions of people around the globe, the same way he made an impact on me. Dee Snider is Jesse Blaze Snider’s inspiration and my strongest musical influence, as I sang in the BXF classic “Rockstar”, “I’m gonna make you proud.”

Just like I am proud of him. Check out this amazing video, the opening of the “SingStar 80’s” Playstation game, starring me, my wife Patty, my brother Shane and our dad the rockstar, Dee Snider…..