He started a rock band called Thirty Seconds to Mars in 1998 with his brother Shannon Leto. Leto was the lead singer. The band has released four albums.
Leto was born on December 26, 1971, in Bossier City, Louisiana, to Constance Leto (née Metrejon).[1][2] His mother has Cajun ancestry.[3] Leto is his stepfather's surname. His parents divorced when he was a child, and he and his older brother, Shannon, lived with their mother and their maternal grandparents, Ruby (Russell) and William Lee Metrejon.[1] After he remarried, his father died by suicide when Jared was eight.[4] Leto moved frequently with his family from Louisiana to different cities around the country.[5] "My mom's father was in the Air Force," Leto has explained, "so moving around a lot was a normal way of life."[6] Leto has two younger half-brothers from his father's second marriage.[1]
Constance joined the hippie movement and encouraged her sons to get involved in the arts.[3] Leto said he "was raised around a lot of artists, musicians, photographers, painters and people that were in theater," adding that "Just having the art communal hippie experience as a child, there wasn't a clear line that was drawn. We celebrated creative experience and creative expression. We didn't try and curtail it and stunt any of that kind of growth."[7] Leto started playing music with his brother at an early age; his first musical instrument was a broken-down piano.[8]
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