Steven Van Zandt, also known as Little Steven or Miami Steve, is an American singer, songwriter, musician, producer, actor, and activist. He is best known as a member of Bruce Springsteen’s E Street Band, in which he plays guitar and mandolin. He also has his own solo band called Little Steven and The Disciples of Soul. In 2014, he was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame as a members of the E Street band.
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Steven Van Zandt, also known as Little Steven or Miami Steve, is an American singer, songwriter, musician, producer, actor, and activist. He is best known as a member of Bruce Springsteen’s E Street Band, in which he plays guitar and mandolin. He also has his own solo band called Little Steven and The Disciples of Soul, active on and off since the 1980s. In 2014, he was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame as a members of the E Street band. He has also appeared in television series such as The Sopranos and Lilyhammer. He was born in Winthrop, Massachusetts, and grew up in Middletown Township, New Jersey. He met Springsteen at a club in 1966 or 1967, when he was performing a cover of the Turtles’ \”Happy Together\” with the Shadows. He co-founded Southside Johnny and the Asbury Jukes, in addition to The Miami Horns, who got their name from Van Z andt’s nickname. He wrote a significant bulk of SouthsideJohnny’s music which helped provide them with the success that they achieved. He arranged the horns for the Avenue Freeze-Out in 1975 when Springsteen was in the band. In the Wings For Wheels documentary, Springsteen revealed that Van ZAndt was partially responsible for the guitar line in Born to Run; this can be seen within the 30th concert of the Born To Run Tour. He later became friends with Paul McCartney and Ringo Starr, and toured with The Dovells in the early 1970s.
He worked in road construction for two years, before returning to show business in the late 1970s and early 1980s, before joining the E street Band. He currently lives in New York City with his wife and two children, and has a half-brother and half-sister named Kathi, who is a writer. He lives with his parents in New Jersey and has two step-sisters. He and his wife have a son, Billy, and a step-daughter named Adrienne Barbeau who is his ex sister-in-law. He had three children with his step-mother, Mary, and one step-son, William Brewster, who was his stepfather’s step-father. His father is of Italian descent; his grandfather was from Calabria and his grandmother’s parents were from Naples. His mother remarried in 1957 and he took the last name of his step father, WilliamBrewster VanZandt. He went back to school to appease his mother and graduated in 1968. As a teenager, he got kicked out for having long hair. He began wearing hats, and later, large bandanas, which has become his characteristic look. He continued wearing Hawaiian shirts because he did not particularly like winter, which was how he got the nickname \”Miami Steve\”. He has cited British Invasion bands such as the Dave Clark Five, as well as Ravi Shankar and the culture of India, as early influences.
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