Nathan Stocker is a vocalist and the lead guitarist of the band Hippo Campus, from St Paul, Minnesota. Stocker also releases music under the name brotherkenzie, as well as through a side-project with Hippo Campus band member Jake Luppen and high-school friend Caleb Hinz, dubbed “Baby Boys.”

Nathan initially released his brotherkenzie work on bandcamp in 2016, such as his first EP titled carver and other singles.

In January 2019, Nathan wrote a piece for For The Record titled “Brief Musings on Writing, What to Write, and Why.” That same season, the first EP for his shared side-project Baby Boys, titled I’m Set, was released.

In early 2020, Nathan released his first album, Barncat, an entirely instrumental and ambient work, followed by BIG WHAT, later that same year, which saw a return to his usual style.

Nathan explains how he got into music:

My dad was a pastor, so I was surrounded by a bunch of church music, praise, worship and really bad pop music. But at the same time, it was nice. My dad played guitar a lot and he’s pretty good at piano, so there was some music in the family. Then, I started playing the drums at 9 years old. Soon, after that, I switched to guitar and didn’t take it that seriously until high school when I met the other dudes.

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