Biography

Stephen Martin Jocz was born on July 23, 1981, and is of Polish descent. Although his real name is Stephen, most known him as Stevo 32 or just Stevo. He is best known as a musician for the drummer of Canadian rock band Sum 41. He was born in Ajax, Ontario, to Marg and Phil Jocz, and has an older sister named Jenn. Around 1993 he met future Sum 41 frontman, Deryck Whibley. They became the first two members of the band, which formed out of two rival bands at their local highschool. His band got their name from the date they were formed which was on July 31, 1996 (41 days into the SUMmer). Jocz is the youngest in the band. For drums, he uses Drum Workshop and for sticks, he uses Vic Firth For Cymbals he uses Zildjian Cymbals and for drum heads, he uses Remo. He also plays on Orange County Drums and Percussion Custom Drum Sets. Jocz is vocalist Pain in Sum 41's alter-ego band Pain for Pleasure. He has also appeared on MTV Cribs.

At Sum 41, he is known for his outspoken personality and toilet humour in interviews. He is one of the less quiet members of the band and is often considered the frontman of the band because of his outgoing personality and the fact he often takes over interviews. He is also a controversial person, as one of the leaders of Punk Voter and one of the best known artists against George W. Bush, he often includes political messages in his interviews.

Aside from drums, Stevo plays the piano. He also does lead vocals for the alter-ego band Pain For Pleasure and half of the vocals for the more hip-hop oriented songs by Sum 41. He is featured on drums in his band-mate Jason McCaslin's side project, The Operation M.D..

More recently he started a music director career. He directed a music video for the band The Midway State called "Change For You" and for The Operation M.D., for their single "Sayonara".

He has made several animated video such as, "The Baby", and has acted as the main character in many Sum 41 short films such as "1-800-JUSTICE", "Public Service Annoncements", "The Stache" and "Basketball butcher". He also was featured in the movie "Dirty Love" as himself for about 7 minutes. He is very comfortable in front of the camera. All of these videos can be found on Youtube.

According to most data he finished high school along with Cone and Deryck. Dave however didn't graduate. They all attended school in Ajax, Ontario, Canada In high school Steve was on the dive team and portrayed his skills in the music video for "In Too Deep".

While still a youth (around 18-19) he and the other members of the band would play many pranks (ie. robbing a pizza store with water guns). He continues to have the same prankster aspect to him and in an MTV interview with Dave he described recent pranks such as filling condoms with rotten milk and throwing them at near by sun-bathers.

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