Steve Forde

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Steve Forde is an Australian country music artist [1] and host of Rollin with... on the Country Music Channel.[ citation needed ]

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Biography

Early years

Steve Forde was born in the regional farming centre of Cowra, New South Wales in 1977. Steve spent most of his early childhood moving from town to town across NSW with his family. He is a singer, a songwriter and a touring country star. Although retired now, Steve was a successful bull rider and bareback bronc rider.[ citation needed ]

At 18 years old, Ford joined his first band and tasted the life of a touring country musician. It was also during this time that Forde decided that he wanted to join the rodeo as a bull rider.[ citation needed ]

He first left for the United States in 1998 he joined a country band in Texas and toured through Colorado, South Dakota and into Canada. When the gigs were lean he would often be working in bars, building fences or riding bareback broncos in Lubbock, Texas.[ citation needed ]

Steve headed back to Australia when he heard that his father needed help on the farm and he went to work on the farm, still doing rodeos during the weekends. He bought his farm, near Grenfell, New South Wales and set about getting it cleaned up, stocked up and productive while still helping his father on his farm and finding time to getaway riding broncos.[ citation needed ]

2000-present: Recording years

In 2000, Steve started his band The Flange whose debut album Livin' Right was released in May 2002. At the 2003 Country Music Awards of Australia, the band were nominated for two awards. The single "What I’m talking about" spending twenty-six weeks in the CMC top twenty.[ citation needed ]

The group's second albu, Wild Ride was recorded in Nashville in December 2003 and released in 2004.[ citation needed ]

Discography

Albums

List of albums, with Australian chart positions
TitleAlbum detailsPeak chart
positions
AUS
[2]
Livin Right
(as Steve Forde & The Flange)
  • Released: 2002
  • Label: ABC Music
  • Formats: CD
-
Wild Ride
(as Steve Forde & The Flange)
  • Released: July 2004 [3]
  • Label: ABC Music
  • Formats: CD
-
Rowdy
(as Steve Forde & The Flange)
  • Released: January 2006 [4]
  • Label: ABC Music
  • Formats: CD
-
Steve Forde
  • Released: 16 September 2007 [5]
  • Label: ABC Music
  • Formats: CD
59
Guns & Guitars
  • Released: October 2008
  • Label: ABC Music
  • Formats: CD, Digital
56
Hurricane
  • Released: 13 August 2010 [6]
  • Label: FEG, ABC Music
  • Formats: CD, Digital
69
Greatest Hits
  • Released: 26 August 2011 [7]
  • Label: FEG, ABC Music
  • Formats: CD, Digital
-

Awards and nominations

APRA Awards

The APRA Awards are presented annually from 1982 by the Australasian Performing Right Association (APRA), "honouring composers and songwriters". They commenced in 1982. [8]

YearNominee / workAwardResultRef.
2010 "I Ain't That Guy"Country Work of the YearNominated [9]

Country Music Awards of Australia

The Country Music Awards of Australia (CMAA) (also known as the Golden Guitar Awards) is an annual awards night held in January during the Tamworth Country Music Festival, celebrating recording excellence in the Australian country music industry. They have been held annually since 1973. [10]

YearNominee / workAwardResult (wins only)
2008"Spirit of the Bush" (with Lee Kernaghan & Adam Brand)Vocal Collaboration of the YearWon
Video Clip of the YearWon
Single of the YearWon

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References

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