About Steve
Steve Massey was born in China Lake, California and grew up in the Los Angeles
area with a move to the San Francisco Bay Area during high school days.
He started playing guitar at age 7 taking guitar lessons for about a year but then
began to be self taught.
Steve attended Azusa Pacific University in Southern California and graduated in
1976. At Azusa Steve was in a band called "Session".
In the past number of years Steve had the privilege of studying music composition
and guitar theory privately for four years with Jai Josefs (author of book "Writing
Music for Hit Songs") and songwriting with Steve Seskin (songwriter of hits by Neal
Mccoy, Tim McGraw, John Michael Montgomery, Alabama and others). Steve also
studied with Alex De Grassi (Grammy nominated fingerstyle
guitarist) the summer of 2004.
Steve has had songs on rotation on FM radio nationally, with songs used in corporate
videos and as background tracks on cable TV.
He has performed in various venues in the Los Angeles area as well as SanFranciso
Bay area, Nashville, TN and Oregon. In past years Steve has been an active
member of LASS, NSAI, NCSA and NAS songwriter organizations.
In the 90's Steve had a light pop, jazz band in the Los Angeles area that played
various cafes and clubs in the Southern California area.
Steve's first CD was released on Hill View Music and is titled "Come To The Table".
In 1989 Steve and his family moved to southern Oregon where the natural beauty of
the area has inspired most of his new guitar solo fingerstyle compositions as heard
on both "Northwest" CD released in 2004 on Hill View Music and "Wood" CD released
also on Hill View in 2003. Steve's first DVD was released Dec 2005.
Steve is a member of the Jefferson Classical Guitar Society and performs once a
month at
the group's performances in Medford Oregon.
Steve lives with his wife and daughter in Southern Oregon now and performs in the
Northwest and other locations.