Steve Ivey
Steve Ivey, Nashville, Tennessee (February 28) is an award winning American music writer, producer, musician, and recording engineer. He has written, created, and produced music for a wide variety of music artists, music for film and television, comedy albums, and music for corporations. His music collaborations include working with Aaron Neville, Dolly Parton, Vince Gill, Mark Wills, UrbanNation, Blessing, Angela Brown, Bill Anderson, The Weather Channel, The Oak Ridge Boys, Ricky Scaggs, Nissan, Special Olympics, BeDoTell, Willie Nelson, Focus On The Family, EMI, Madacy, VH-1, Access Hollywood, The E! Network, The Care Bears, Crystal Gayle, films featuring Jim Carrey, Stetson, Chantel, Soul Union, Big STuf, Slidawg, LynnMarie, Janet's Planet, Starsong, The Simple Life 1 & 2, Army Wives, Ugly Betty, Floorz America, Cindy Bealer, The Jordanaires, Charles Billingsley, Chiros, Smoky Mountain String Machine, and many others.
Biography
Steve began his career with a Bachelors degree in Music Performance and a Masters degree in Marketing/Communications and incorporated his company at age 21. His first studio experiences were in Macon GA at the famed Muscadine Studio.
He married and relocated to Fort Worth, Texas to earn a masters degree and then moved to Nashville, TN to set up his business. The company name is IMI, which is Ivey Music International, as IMI's music can be found in over 20 countries around the globe. The IMI studio is located on famed Music Row in Nashville, TN at 20 Music Square West. IMI information is at www.IMImusic.com
Career
He has written hundreds of songs with over 250 of his songs commercially recorded and released. Steve plays multiple INSTRUMENTS and aside from producing and engineering he has been credited as playing the following instruments on various recordings (piano, electric guitar, acoustic guitar, mandolin, percussion, dobro, harmonica, keyboards, banjo, lap guitar, bass guitar, lead and background vocals).
Awards
His music accomplishments and creation of a wide variety's of music styles have put him on 5 different Billboard Charts: Holiday, Urban, Comedy, Bluegrass, Top Year End charts. He has been awarded an Emmy Award, 3 Grammy nominations, 2 TELE Awards, a DOVE Award nomination, the prestigious Gracie Allen Award, a NAPPA Gold children's award, and been written AbOUT in the following periodicals (People Magazine,PowerSource,Music Row Magazine, Country Weekly, Ladies Home Journal, US Magazine, CMA Magazine). Steve has been #1 on Billboard Charts 17 times with a variety of products. The MusicAL styles he has produced and created music in are Pop, R&B, Country, Classical, Bluegrass, Black Gospel, Southern Gospel, Christan Pop/Rock, Children's, Folk, Celtic, Spanish, and Jazz.