Jared Leto was born December 26, 1971 in Bossier City, Louisiana. He has an older brother, Shannon, and two paternal half-brothers from his second marriage.
Jared owes his passion for art to his mother, who in every possible way encouraged him and his brother undertakings. Constance Leto, a former circus performer, raised Jared and Shannon alone after divorcing their father and then remarried.
According to Jared, he and his brother have been passionate about music since childhood. In 1998, Jared organized a group called 30 Seconds to Mars. Today, Jared Leto is the guitarist and vocalist of this band, which also includes his brother Shannon as drummer, and guitarist Tomo Milishevich. Bassist Matt Vokter sadly left the band on March 1, 2007. Temporarily replacing him Tim Kelleher (Tim Kelleher), but he is not yet considered an official member of the group.
During its existence, 30 Seconds to Mars released three full-length albums - the self-titled album in 2002, "A Beautiful Lie" in 2005 and "This Is War" in 2009.
At first, the group performed as an opening act for other bands, but then, in March 2006, the Forever Night Never Day concert program began, where 30 Seconds to Mars were already headliners.
The year 2006 brought the group many different awards. For example, the clip of the group "The Kill" was a permanent member of MTV's Elite 8. At the MTV "Video Music Awards-2006" festival, he received the Mtv2 Award, as well as the award in the nomination "Best Rock Video" (Best Rock Video). In addition, Jared himself was awarded the Prince of Darkness award at the Fuse Fangoria Chainsaw Awards on October 28, 2006.
In December 2006, the band released a video for the song "From Yesterday", the full version of which is thirteen and a half minutes long. "From Yesterday" is the first American music video to be filmed entirely in the People's Republic of China. A video for the song A Beautiful Lie was also filmed. The band filmed the video in Greenland at the end of September, directed by Jared, this time under his own name. The money received from downloading this video from the official website is planned to be donated to charity.
On December 8, 2009, the band released their 3rd album called "This Is War" and at the beginning of 2010 went on a tour called "Into The Wild Tour". Clips were shot for the songs: "Kings And Queens", "Closer To The Edge" (a cut from the group's performances during their tour), as well as a 13-minute film for the song "Hurricane", which in most countries is shown in a censored form from -for scenes of sexual content, and in some, he is completely banned from showing.
Leto directed music videos for his band's songs, such as "The Kill", "From Yesterday", "Kings and Queens", "Do Or Die", "City Of Angels", "Closer to the Edge" and "Hurricane", where he used the pseudonym Bartholomew Cubbins and "A Beautiful Lie"