Gwen Stefani’s 15-year-old son Zuma Rossdale is breaking into the music scene with the help of his stepfather, American country singer Blake Shelton. {"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"ImageObject","caption":"Kingston Rossdale, Gwen Stefani, Blake Shelton, Apollo Rossdale and Zuma Rossdale attend the Hollywood Walk of Fame Star Ceremony to honour Stefani in October 2023.
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Zuma is one of Stefani’s three sons with ex-husband British rock musician Gavin Rossdale. While he comes from a blended family that boasts musicians who have mastered a variety of different genres, Zuma has chosen to follow in the footsteps of his country-crooning stepfather. Here’s everything we know about 15-year-old Zuma Rossdale.
Zuma Rossdale is Gwen Stefani and Gavin Rossdale’s middle child {"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"ImageObject","caption":"Zuma Rossdale, Gwen Stefani, Gavin Rossdale and Kingston Rossdale attend the 2013 world premiere of Monsters University at the El Capitan Theatre in Hollywood, California. Photo: WireImage","url":"https://img.
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Photo: WireImage Zuma Nesta Rock Rossdale was born in Los Angeles on August 21, 2008, to “Hollaback Girl” singer Stefani and her then-husband Gavin. He has an older brother called Kingston James McGregor Rossdale, 18, and a younger brother named Apollo Bowie Flynn Rossdale, 10. Zuma’s parents went their separate ways in 2015 after 12 years of marriage, and Stefani married Shelton, whom she’d met in 2014 when they were both coaches on reality singing competition The Voice in 2021.
Zuma Rossdale has dyslexia {"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"ImageObject","caption":"A post on Gavin Rossdale’s Instagram celebrating Zuma Rossdale, his middle child with Gwen Stefani. Photo: @gavinrossdale/Instagram","url":"https://img.
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Photo: @gavinrossdale/Instagram In a conversation with People, Stefani shared that she and all three of her children have dyslexia, and that she’d surprised herself with her strict parenting style. “I was in a band and free my whole life, so I always thought I would be really free with [my kids]. But you learn that when they have boundaries is when they feel the safest,” she said.
His parents love him for who he is {"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"ImageObject","caption":"Gavin Rossdale called his son Zuma Rossdale “a gift” on Instagram. Photo: @gavinrossdale/Instagram","url":"https://img.
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Photo: @gavinrossdale/Instagram The “Just a Girl” singer once described her son as a “goofball” with a great sense of humour, per People. And now that he’s older, she even says he’s like her “twin”. Awww.
For his 12th birthday, Gavin celebrated the special day on Instagram with a post captioned: “Zuma Nesta Rock Rossdale – 12 years old today – greatest guy I know.” The following year, in a similarly adoring post, Gavin described Zuma as “my sweetest boy”. And just last year, Gavin was on the road for his band Bush’s summer 2023 tour, but made sure his tour dates allowed a trip home to celebrate Zuma’s birthday.
What does Gavin Rossdale think about his son Zuma getting into country music? {"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"ImageObject","caption":"In 2020, Gavin Rossdale said to his son Zuma Rossdale: “Thanks for making my life infinitely better with your presence.” Photo: @gavinrossdale/Instagram","url":"https://img.
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” Photo: @gavinrossdale/Instagram In a May interview with US Weekly, Gavin got honest and said that while he fully supports his son’s musical interests, blues scales are “the last thing I want to hear in my house”. “Blues scales – there’s a specific pentatonic scale that rock 'n' roll uses that we’ve never used in Bush,” he explained. “So he comes in and shows the pentatonic scale.
I’m like, ‘Oh God’.” But all jokes aside, it’s all good. “That’s how much I love him.
I will support him making any music. Even the blues,” Rossdale added. The 15-year-old middle child of the Don’t Speak singer and frontman of British rock band Bush recently made his country music debut at his stepfather Blake Shelton’s bar in Oklahoma The teenager comes from a blended family that is full of musicians, but it seems like he’ll be following in the footsteps of his mum’s second husband.
