Stevie...

Stevie was born in Metro Atlanta back in the 70s to a singer/songwriter father and a beautifully voiced mother who sang with his father on the weekends all around Atlanta. So you could say that music has always been a "Family Business" to him. Growing up in Metro Atlanta in the 70s afforded Stevie the opportunity to absorb a wide variety of music. Which anyone would witness if you happen to catch one of his performances.
He began playing guitar under his father's instruction at 8 yrs old, but it wasn't to last too long as his folks split up just 2 years later and Stevie stayed with his mother. His mother was a tireless worker and left him at home by himself a lot so he began teaching himself guitar . He went to live with his father when he was 14 and started playing guitar for his father's band when he was 15. By the time Stevie was 17 he was the lead player in the band and was making 50 a night which was great money to him considering his classmates were working fast food jobs for about the same amount of coin.
After Stevie graduated High School he joined the USMC for a chance to see the world. When he was home on leave after bootcamp he received his first real lesson in the "dark side" of the music business.
Stevie's father had ended up owing a lot of back child support from when he was a kid until he was 17. The $50.00 a night he was making turned out to be $100.00 a night but his father was taking half of his pay and giving it to his mother. Stevie was, in fact, paying his own back child support with his own gig money!!!! Ask him about it now and you'll just hear him laugh and say, "tell me there ain't a country song in that somewhere."
The Marine Corps eventually led him to Okinawa Japan. He fell in love with the Island and decided to stay there when he got out. He lived there close to 19 years and loved every minute of it. He's been quoted as saying, "what more could a guy want, I was drinking beer and hanging out on the beach all day and playing guitar for money at night!" He was always playing either as a solo act or as 1/2 of the "Stevie & Doug" show that had developed quite a following amongst the locals as well as the American Military. This afforded him the opportunity to have his own radio show and become somewhat of a "personality." He was becoming a fixture on the music/media scene and was able to start touring.
Stevie has traveled from Okinawa to Mainland Japan, to Iraq, Thailand, Korea, Taiwan, and Jordan.
All of this constant travel got tiresome so he decided to open his own club in Okinawa. He had the only acoustic hookah bar in Okinawa so business was good. However, one Friday night as the regulars were strolling in he said to himself, "I'm in my 30s, not my 50s. There is still a lot I want to see and do." So within 2 months he sold his bar and was back in the U.S.
He's been traveling all over the country from South Carolina to Georgia, to Nashville, to Arizona, and he is now currently "parked" in Utah where he is planning his next step.