Editing Stuart Zender (section)

=== Early life ===
Zender was born in Sheffield, England. He comes from a family with a musical background: Zender's father was a musician, his uncle was a flamenco guitarist, and his older sister participated in [[Punk rock|punk bands]].<ref name=":0">{{Cite journal|last=Duff|first=S. L.|date=May 1997|title=Can Jamiroquai Take Over the World?|journal=[[Bass Player (magazine)|Bass Player]]|pages= 28–33}}</ref> His family relocated to [[Norristown, Pennsylvania]], when Zender was seven years old.<ref name=":0" /> He moved back to England at age 15,<ref name=":0" /> where he attended [[Leighton Park School]] in [[Reading, Berkshire|Reading]], UK, for a year in 1988–89 before being expelled. Zender played the [[snare drum]]s for his school's marching band before he started to play bass at age 16. He practiced the instrument playing by ear to ''[[Black Market (Weather Report album)|Black Market]]'' by [[Weather Report]], and he was able to play all of the bass parts in two weeks.<ref name=":0" /> Before leaving his home at age 17, Zender's mother had saved for him £2,000 ({{Inflation|UK|2000|1991|fmt=eq|cursign=£}}) for the occasion.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://bassmusicianmagazine.com/2009/10/an-interview-with-bassist-stuart-zender-progressive-rock-update-with-brad-houser/|title=An Interview With Bassist Stuart Zender: Progressive Rock Update With Brad Houser|website=bassmusicianmagazine.com|date=October 2009|language=en-US|access-date=2018-04-16}}</ref> Zender initially played in pubs with a punk rock band, but he had creative differences with the band. He recalled being "stuck onstage, playing these little four-chord songs. I would always jazz the whole thing up and start doing solos and things like that, and they would just tell me to shut up."<ref name=":0" />

Zender admitted that he never had good business acumen, so instead of investing his mother's parting cash gift in a traditional way, he visited a music store and bought a [[Streamer Bass|Warwick Streamer]] bass guitar, which cost nearly the whole amount given to him by his mother. Before picking up a Warwick, Zender played a [[Music Man (company)|Music Man Stingray]] bass guitar. Of his early bands, the most famous was the prank rock group Fabulous, a 1991 outfit chiefly made up of ''[[NME]]'' writers and photographers.{{citation needed|date=April 2013}}