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Five For Fighting is a Los Angeles, California, USA based band. Actually the band is really a stage alias for multi-instrumentalist singer/songwriter John Ondrasik. John was encouraged to adopt a stage name by his first record label because at the time singer/songwriters were not a very popular selling item. So the name Five for Fighting, a hockey penalty, was created as a marketing ploy, which incidentally John suggested naming the "band".

John Ondrasik has been compared to artists such as Elton John, Dave Matthews and Ben Folds Five. His songwriting style covers quite a range of interests from political commentary on world wide social issues to gentle lovelorn compositions.

John was born and raised in the San Fernando Valley section of Los Angeles, California. At the age of two his mother taught him to play piano. When he was thirteen he picked up guitar from his older sister so he could learn the guitar parts on Peter Frampton's "Come...