1. Between 1990 and 1996, Jeffrey 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.
12 Facts About Jeffrey Steele
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Jeffrey Steele LeVasseur was born in Burbank, California to a musical family.
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Jeffrey Steele's mother was a singer, and his father had aspirations to become a country music songwriter.
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Jeffrey Steele first gained his own interest in music at age eight, when he sang Three Dog Night's "Joy to the World" at a church function.
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Jeffrey Steele re-located to Nashville, Tennessee in 1994, two years before Boy Howdy disbanded.
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Jeffrey Steele was eventually signed to a songwriting contract and he began writing singles for other artists.
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Jeffrey Steele sang backing vocals on Sharp's first two albums.
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In 2001, Jeffrey Steele was signed to his second solo recording contract, this time with Monument Records.
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Jeffrey Steele earned his first Number One song with Tim McGraw's "The Cowboy in Me" in 2002.
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Jeffrey Steele continued to record studio albums even while writing hits for other artists; his albums Gold, Platinum, Chrome and Jeffrey 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.
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Jeffrey Steele has since released two other albums, his second greatest hits record "Gold, Platinum, No Chrome, and More Jeffrey Steele" was released in 2007 and his country classics tribute album "Countrypolitan" which was released in 2008.
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Jeffrey Steele co-wrote the song "I Thought I Lost You" with Miley Cyrus for the 2008 Disney animated film Bolt, which Cyrus sings as a duet with John Travolta.