Meet Zuma Rossdale, Gwen Stefani’s ‘goofball’ son with ex Gavin Rossdale: the teen is getting into country music like stepdad Blake Shelton, but what does his rocker dad think?

While he comes from a blended family that boasts musicians who have mastered a variety of different genres, Zuma has chosen to follow in the footsteps of his country-crooning stepfather.

Here’s everything we know about 15-year-old Zuma Rossdale.

Zuma Rossdale is Gwen Stefani and Gavin Rossdale’s middle child

He has an older brother called Kingston James McGregor Rossdale, 18, and a younger brother named Apollo Bowie Flynn Rossdale, 10.

Zuma’s parents went their separate ways in 2015 after 12 years of marriage, and Stefani married Shelton, whom she’d met in 2014 when they were both coaches on reality singing competition The Voice in 2021.

Zuma Rossdale has dyslexia

In a conversation with People, Stefani shared that she and all three of her children have dyslexia, and that she’d surprised herself with her strict parenting style.

“I was in a band and free my whole life, so I always thought I would be really free with [my kids]. But you learn that when they have boundaries is when they feel the safest,” she said.

His parents love him for who he is

The “Just a Girl” singer once described her son as a “goofball” with a great sense of humour, per People. And now that he’s older, she even says he’s like her “twin”. Awww.

For his 12th birthday, Gavin celebrated the special day on Instagram with a post captioned: “Zuma Nesta Rock Rossdale – 12 years old today – greatest guy I know.” The following year, in a similarly adoring post, Gavin described Zuma as “my sweetest boy”. And just last year, Gavin was on the road for his band Bush’s summer 2023 tour, but made sure his tour dates allowed a trip home to celebrate Zuma’s birthday.

What does Gavin Rossdale think about his son Zuma getting into country music?

In a May interview with US Weekly, Gavin got honest and said that while he fully supports his son’s musical interests, blues scales are “the last thing I want to hear in my house”.

“Blues scales – there’s a specific pentatonic scale that rock ‘n’ roll uses that we’ve never used in Bush,” he explained. “So he comes in and shows the pentatonic scale. I’m like, ‘Oh God’.” But all jokes aside, it’s all good.

“That’s how much I love him. I will support him making any music. Even the blues,” Rossdale added.