Jon Crosby (born July 25, 1976) is an American musician and founder of the musical project VAST.
His great-grandfather was John C. Crosby, a congressman from Massachusetts, and his ancestry on his mother's side is English and Native American.
[citation needed] At 19, Crosby's manager and ex-girlfriend Sakina Sati took him to New York, along with ex-members Daniel Alva and Stephen Garver, for the purpose of shopping his demo tapes through Shiva Baum, former manager for Opiate for the Masses, and after a bidding war he signed with Elektra.
[2] Two albums were released by Elektra: Visual Audio Sensory Theater in 1998,[2] and Music For People in 2000.
[3] In late 2007 and early 2008, Crosby released five download-only EPs, under the collective title Generica, billed as "an exploration of people, places and American music.