Name | Jeffrey Steele |
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Background | solo_singer |
Birth name | Jeffrey LeVasseur |
Born | August 27, 1961 |
Origin | Burbank, California, USA |
Instrument | Vocals, guitar, bass guitar, piano |
Genre | Country |
Occupation | Singer-songwriter |
Years active | 1990–present |
Label | Curb, Monument, 3 Ring Circus/Lofton Creek |
Associated acts | Boy Howdy, Miley Cyrus, Rascal Flatts, Montgomery Gentry, Keith Anderson, Billy Ray Cyrus |
Website |
Jeffrey LeVasseur (born August 27, 1961 in Burbank, California) is an American country music singer and songwriter, more commonly known by the name Jeffrey Steele. Along with recording his own material, Steele has become a prolific Nashville songwriter, having co-written more than sixty hit songs for such artists as Montgomery Gentry, Tim McGraw, Faith Hill, LeAnn Rimes, Rascal Flatts, Billy Ray Cyrus, and others.
Between 1990 and 1996, Steele was the lead singer and bass guitarist in the country music band Boy Howdy, which recorded two albums and an EP on Curb Records, in addition to charting seven singles on the Billboard country music charts. After Boy Howdy disbanded, Steele embarked on a solo career, recording seven studio albums (one of which was not released). He also charted four singles as a solo artist, with the highest-peaking ("Somethin' in the Water") reaching #33 on the country charts in 2001.
In 2001, Steele was signed to his second solo recording contract, this time with Monument Records. His solo debut album, Somethin' in the Water, was issued late that year. In addition to producing the album, Steele wrote or co-wrote every song on it. The album's title cut reached a peak of #33 on the Hot Country Singles & Tracks chart, becoming Steele's only Top 40 hit as a solo artist.
Meanwhile, he continued to write songs for other artists, with Faith Hill, Tim McGraw, Trace Adkins, and Montgomery Gentry all recording songs he had co-written. Steele earned his first Number One song with Tim McGraw's "The Cowboy in Me" in 2002. In addition, Rascal Flatts reached Number One on the country charts in late 2002 with "These Days", their first Number One single. Steele also continued to record studio albums even while writing hits for other artists; his albums Gold, Platinum, Chrome and Steele and You Gotta Start Somewhere were both released in 2003, the same year that he was named Songwriter of the Year by both BMI and the Nashville Songwriters Association International (NSAI). 2004 saw the release of his fourth studio album, Outlaw, on the Lofton Creek Records label. By 2005, more than sixty of his songs had become chart hits for other artists; that same year, he received a second Songwriter of the Year award from the NSAI.
His most successful single as a songwriter is "What Hurts the Most," a Number One single on both the Hot Country Songs and Hot Adult Contemporary Tracks charts for Rascal Flatts in 2006, which was also a chart single for Cascada. Another one of Steele's compositions, Steve Holy's Number One single "Brand New Girlfriend", earned him yet another BMI award in 2006, as well as the Rascal Flatts hit "My Wish" just as Steele released his album, Hell on Wheels. "What Hurts the Most" would later earn him the Songwriter of the Year and Song of the Year awards from BMI, as well as the Songwriter of the Year award from Music Row magazine. Steele has since released two other albums, his second greatest hits record "Gold, Platinum, No Chrome, and More Steele" was released in 2007 and his country classics tribute album "Countrypolitan" which was released in 2008. Steele also produced Keith Anderson's two studio albums: 2005's Three Chord Country and American Rock & Roll and 2008's C'mon!, as well as Montgomery Gentry's 2004 album You Do Your Thing and 2006 album Some People Change
In April 2008, Steele joined Jewel and John Rich of Big & Rich as judges on the talent show Nashville Star. Steele has also guest hosted for Bob Kingsley twice on the radio show Bob Kingsley's Country Top 40, a weekly radio countdown show based on the Mediabase country charts: for the weeks of September 13–14, 2008 and October 3–4, 2009.
In September 2008 The Country Music Hall of Fame honored Steele as a Poet & Prophet in the Hall of Fame's quarterly series.
Steele signed a deal with Best Buy to release 3 of his albums November 18, 2008: "Hell On Wheels", "Gold, Platinum, No Chrome, and More Steele: Greatest Hits Vol. II", and "Countrypolitan"
Jeffrey Steele and Miley Cyrus also co-wrote the main track I Thought I Lost You for the 2008 Disney animated film Bolt.
Title | Album details | ||
Somethin' in the Water | * Release date: October 30, 2001 | * Label: Monument Records | |
Gold, Platinum, Chrome, and Steele | * Release date: 2003 | * Label: 3 Ring Circus/Lofton Creek Records | |
You Gotta Start Somewhere | * Release date: 2003 | * Label: 3 Ring Circus/Lofton Creek Records | |
Outlaw | * Release date: September 21, 2004 | * Label: 3 Ring Circus/Lofton Creek Records | |
Hell on Wheels | * Release date: February 28, 2006 | * Label: 3 Ring Circus/Lofton Creek Records | |
Gold, Platinum, No Chrome,and More Steele | * Release date: 2007 | * Label: 3 Ring Circus/Lofton Creek Records | |
Countrypolitan | * Release date: November 18, 2008 | * Label: 3 Ring Circus |
Year | Single | Peak positions | Album |
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1996 | "Roots of Country" | — | |
"A Girl Like You" | 60 | ||
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2001 | "Somethin' in the Water" | 33 | |
"I Can Give You Love Like That" | — | ||
"Good to Go" | 49 | ||
"Good Year for the Outlaw" | 54 | ||
"Twenty Years Ago" | — | ||
"Once a Cowboy" | — | ||
"Just the Way We Do It" | — | ||
"She Must Be So Happy" | — | ||
! Year | Video | ! Director |
2001 | "Somethin' in the Water" | Paul Holahan |
2004 | "Once a Cowboy" |
Category:1961 births Category:American country bass guitarists Category:American country singer-songwriters Category:American country singers Category:Musicians from California Category:Living people Category:People from Burbank, California Category:Monument Records artists
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