Roland Stephen Taylor was born on December 9,1957 and is an American singer, songwriter, record producer, music executive, film maker, assistant professor, and actor.
28 Facts About Steve Taylor
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Steve Taylor has produced and written for numerous musical acts, one of the most consistent being Newsboys.
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Steve Taylor, the eldest of three children, was born in Brawley, California.
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When Steve Taylor was six years old, the family relocated to Northglenn, Colorado, a suburb of Denver.
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At the camp, Steve Taylor spent time learning from singers like Tony Orlando, Florence Henderson, and John Davidson.
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Steve Taylor returned home and enrolled at the University of Colorado Boulder, to study "serious music".
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In 1980, Steve Taylor wrote and directed a pop musical comedy titled Nothing to Lose based on the parable of the Prodigal Son from the Bible.
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Steve Taylor wrote and starred in a short film, Joe's Distributing, a parody of avant-garde films.
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Steve Taylor wrote articles during this time that were published in The Wittenburg Door and CCM Magazine.
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The Continental Singers' founder, Cam Floria invited Steve Taylor to join the group as assistant director on a tour to France, Italy, and Poland sponsored by Solidarity.
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Steve Taylor recorded his debut solo project I Want to Be a Clone in 1982 and released it in January 1983.
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Steve Taylor quickly gained a reputation for writing songs that satirized beliefs and practices with which he disagreed.
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Steve Taylor finished the summer's tour in an electric wheelchair.
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Steve Taylor followed that release with On the Fritz, produced by Foreigner's Ian McDonald.
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Fritz, keeping with Steve Taylor tradition, took aim at religious leaders, such as Bill Gothard, greedy TV evangelists, politicians using religion or avoiding questions of morality in order to get votes, and public schools teaching "values clarification" to children, asking them to determine who should be thrown overboard in an overcrowded lifeboat.
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Steve Taylor recorded a duet with Sheila Walsh, "Not Gonna Fall Away", a tune written and recorded in 1981 by David Edwards.
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In between performing, recording and touring, Steve Taylor met and married Debbie Butler of Irvine, California.
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Mrs Steve Taylor designed the album cover for a compilation on Sparrow, The Best We Could Find and Myrrh's I Predict 1990, as well as some of Steve Taylor's more colorful stage costumes.
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In 1987, Steve Taylor lived up to his controversial reputation with a song called "I Blew Up the Clinic Real Good".
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Steve Taylor then took a break from music until 1990, when he returned as the lead singer of Chagall Guevara.
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Steve Taylor returned with another solo album, Squint, and a live CD, Liver, in the mid-1990s.
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Steve Taylor would be most noted for his work with Newsboys, co-producing five of the band's albums while making contributions to the band's songwriting.
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Steve Taylor began working as a full-time film maker, directing music videos for Fleming and John, Rich Mullins, Sixpence None the Richer, Newsboys, Guardian, Twila Paris, Dakoda Motor Co.
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That film was abandoned in 2001 when Squint Entertainment lost its financial backing and Steve Taylor was forced out of the company.
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New music was scarce, but Steve Taylor did contribute one song, "Shortstop", to Squint's 2000 compilation Roaring Lambs.
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Steve Taylor recorded "Yo Ho Hero", a collaborative track for the 2008 VeggieTales movie The Pirates Who Don't Do Anything.
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In 2010, Steve Taylor began working on a film adaptation of Donald Miller's book Blue Like Jazz.
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Steve Taylor would begin development on another feature film, a political comedy: The Independent.