He started showing interest in their music as a toddler. It’s not surprising that Jordan pursued music, his parents say. Kathi also took on voice and piano students and they ran a special-events business for a time in West Virginia. When the live music scene started to fade in the late 1990s, early 2000s and gigs were harder to come by, John, who taught himself to play guitar by mimicking Toto records and took music theory classes at Pima Community College, started teaching guitar.

John and Kathi played in a couple bands in Tucson throughout the ’90s, including Passion and Seven Story Chair. John Stafford, shown here in his long-haired teen rock days in 1983, taught himself to play the guitar by mimicking Toto records. The couple settled in Tucson in the early 1990s when Jordan was a year old and his two older siblings from McKay’s first marriage were still young. John also had a long career, playing in a number of bands and supporting his wife’s bands over the years. Jordan came to them at 17, fresh out of Rincon High School and ready to follow in his parents’ musical footsteps. OnesAll was his idea, John and Kathi say. “It’s definitely a huge emphasis point, to have fun, and I think people can tell whether or not you are legitimately enjoying yourself,” adds 29-year-old Jordan Stafford, whose boy-next-door smile beams whenever he steps on stage. And we see it with the people when we perform. It changes your attitude, it changes what you’re thinking. It’s like a secret weapon,” says the 63-year-old Kathi, whose 40-year music career has included opening for jazz great Ella Fitzgerald, singing backup with Tennessee Ernie Ford and touring nationally with a show band affiliated with the manager of KC & the Sunshine Band. The band, which also includes bass player Kent Baker and drummer Abel Salgado, fuses rock, funk, and rhythm and blues with covers from artists including Michael Jackson, Earth, Wind & Fire, Chaka Khan, Toto, Bruno Mars and Heart, as well as original funk and rock songs. Kathi, who shares lead vocals with her son and runs the business end of the group, says most of their popularity has been driven by word-of-mouth from fans and bar owners alike. Band members are, from left, Abel Salgado, Kent Baker, Kathi McKay, Jordan Stafford and John Stafford. OnesAll plays funk and R&B at the Oro Valley Marketplace.

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