Kris Roe

Kristopher James Roe (born 1978 in Anderson, Indiana) is the singer and the guitarist of the American pop punk group The Ataris, who formed in 1994. He currently resides in Santa Barbara, California. Roe fo

Kristopher James Roe (born 1978 in Anderson, Indiana) is the singer and the guitarist of the American pop punk group The Ataris, who formed in 1994. He currently resides in Santa Barbara, California. Roe founded the group when he gave a demo tape to The Vandals bass player Joey Escalante, who was so impressed by Roe's material that he asked Roe to put together a full band. In response, Roe dropped out of high school and moved to California in search of band members.

He is married to Denice Roe (about whom he frequently writes songs), and has one daughter, Starla, from his first marriage, about whom he wrote "The Saddest Song" -- in which he and Ataris bass player Mike Davenport send apologetic pleas to their children to forgive them for not being around as they grow up.