Eric Stuart
American voice actor, voice director, singer, songwriter, and guitarist
Eric Stuart is an American voice actor and musician whose clients include 4Kids Entertainment, NYAV Post, and Central Park Media.
Among some of his prominent roles, he is best known for being the voice of Brock and James from seasons 1–8 of the original Pokémon anime, as well as voicing Seto Kaiba in the Yu-Gi-Oh! Duel Monsters anime series and Meta Knight in Kirby: Right Back at Ya!.
Early life
Stuart was born in Brooklyn, New York to a modern dancer mother and a criminal attorney father.
Voice acting career
He provides voices for English dubs of anime, cartoons, and video games. Some of his most prominent roles include Brock and James in Pokémon from seasons 1–8, Seto Kaiba in Yu-Gi-Oh!, and Gourry Gabriev in Slayers.
Music career
As a stage performer, he and his band, Eric Stuart Band, have toured with Peter Frampton (1999, 2000), Ringo Starr & His All-Starr Band (1997), Lynyrd Skynyrd (1997), and has opened for Jethro Tull (1997), Julian Cope (1995), Hall & Oates (1997, 1998) and Chicago (1995, 1997, 1998) as well.
In 2000, Frampton produced his album Blue, Dressed in Black.
In 2007, he released his fourth full-length album In The County Of Kings as the Eric Stuart Band under Stuart's own independent label, Widow's Peak Records. The title of the album comes from Kings County, Brooklyn, where Stuart was born and raised.
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