R.O. Marian (aka Jake Stone) is a Romanian-American rapper, creative professional, and youth mentor. Originally adopted from a Romanian orphanage in 1996 by an American family, he grew up in Northwest Indiana with passions in music, creative design, and teaching. After graduating HS in 2012, he went on to study design & visual communications at a university in Chicago IL.

While his first tracks were created in 2010 during his high-school years and can still be found on DatPiff, he didn't pursue rap music as seriously until his departure from playing drums in a Chicago based metalcore outfit Speaking With Ghosts in 2017. Rap music was not a focus area during these years until the end where he started a digital media business and went back to his roots of rap music as a means to tell his life story; a God story.

Most recently, Jake started going back to his home country of Romania to visit and chase his origin roots. Over the last few years he's established many powerful relationships with orphanages, churches, and schools throughout the country. He's using these connections as a means to unite and empower the future generation of Romanian Youth through a social integration project. While his primary financial vehicle to fund overseas stay is his creative company, Mueller Media Group, Jake is also in the process of establhsing a non-profit organization called ROMISSIONSWith this project, he ca raise funds to aid his mission.

For more of Jakes adoption story, music, and creative background, you can visit his article on Medium.com