Steve Fox (musician)

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Steve Fox (musician)
Birth nameSteve Fox
Origin Brampton, Ontario, Canada
Genres Country
OccupationSinger-songwriter
Years active1991–present
LabelsQuantum Records (1991)
True North Records (1993)
Dead Reckoning (1998)
Page Records (1999–2001)
Royalty Records (2004–present)

Steve Fox is a Canadian country music singer-songwriter based in Nashville. [1] [2] He is best known for writing "Moving to a Small Town" [3] and Montgomery Gentry's hit song "Daddy Won't Sell the Farm", which went Platinum and Gold in the United States. [2] As an independent performing artist in Canada, he has toured with Kenny Rogers, opened for country stars including Dwight Yoakum and Michelle Wright, and headlined at festivals including the Calgary Stampede. [3] [2] He is credited as a songwriter on many albums. [3] [2] He has worked with producer and publisher Joe Scaife, as well as Cal IV Entertainment. [4] [5]

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In 2001, Fox won the Canadian Country Music Association's Songwriter of the Year Award. [6] He was nominated for CD of the Year for his album Small World [2] and nominated for a Juno Award for Best Male Vocalist for his 1993 album, The Days of My Youth (True North/Sony). [2]

Early life and education

Fox grew up in a musical family in the Vancouver suburb of Coquitlam, British Columbia. [7] [2] [8] His father John worked in radio broadcasting, while his mother Ella was an oboe player in a chamber orchestra. [8] His three brothers later pursued careers in music and acting. [8] He left Coquitlam after graduating from Centennial Secondary, and traveled through Europe and the Middle East. [2]

Career

Fox moved to Toronto in the mid-1980s to pursue a career in music, performing and writing songs for several folk, R&B, and rockabilly bands, and working as a sound engineer. [7] [2] While fronting a rockabilly band called The Tin Eddies, he got his break with a solo rock LP, Where The Blue Moon Rises. [8] [9] In 1993, he had his first minor hit, The Days of My Youth, on the True North/Sony label, and was nominated for a Juno Award for Best Male Vocalist. [2] In 2001 he released Small World which went platinum and led to the notable singles "Small Town", "Cheap Red Wine" and "Couple On The Cake", a duet with Beverley Mahood, and a video featuring Leslie Nielsen. He released the album Lunch With Chet with the single "Dream On".[ citation needed ] He is noted for writing the Montgomery Gentry single "Daddy Won't Sell The Farm", which reached No. 13 on the Billboard music chart and No. 1 on CMT; it won the Canadian Country Music Association SOCAN song of the year award. [7] He wrote "24 X 24", recorded by Gord Bamford. [6]

Fox produced records for other artists, and released his own single, "If My Life Was a Movie" in January 2007.[ citation needed ]

Discography

Studio albums

TitleDetails
Steve Fox
Small World
  • Release date: July 15, 2002
  • Label: Page Records/EMI
Lunch with Chet
Harbour Town
  • Release date: September 9, 2008
  • Label: Good Spirit

Singles

YearSinglePeak positionsAlbum
CAN Country
1999"Why"39Steve Fox
"Down in the Mojave"48
"I Just Don't Know Anymore"23
2000"Somebody Loves Me"*
2001"Couple on the Cake"
(with Beverley Mahood)		*Small World
"Movin' to a Small Town"*
2002"Cheap Red Wine"*
"You'll Find Love"*
2003"Everything"*
"Land of the Loved"*
2004"Please"*Lunch with Chet
"The Road of Life"*
2005"Dream On"*
2006"Rewind"*
"Little Footprints"*
2007"If My Life Was a Movie"*Harbour Town
2008"5 Minutes"*
2009"Don't Grow Today"*
* denotes unknown peak positions

Music videos

YearVideoDirector
1999"I Just Don't Know Anymore"
2001"Couple on the Cake"
(with Beverley Mahood)		Terrance Odette
"Movin' to a Small Town"
2002"Cheap Red Wine"
2003"Everything"
2005"Dream On"
2006"Rewind"Antonio Hrynchuk
"Little Footprints"

References

  1. ↑ Leblanc, Larry (April 13, 2002). "Canadian songwriters score internationally". Billboard. ProQuest   227150690 . Retrieved June 10, 2024.
  2. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 Devitt, Ron (October 19, 2002). "Coquitlam's Steve Fox making a name in Nashville". Coquitlam Now. ProQuest   358567635 . Retrieved June 10, 2024.
  3. 1 2 3 Bainas, Lexi (October 20, 2002). "The Songwriters: Three talents present their music and the stories behind their music". Cowichan Valley Citizen. ProQuest   358206061 . Retrieved June 10, 2024.
  4. ↑ "'Songwriters' to perform at the Tidemark". Courier-Islander. October 2, 2002. ProQuest   358373373 . Retrieved June 10, 2024.
  5. ↑ Stark, Phyllis (August 18, 2001). "Nashville scene". Billboard. ProQuest   227143831 . Retrieved June 10, 2024.
  6. 1 2 North, Peter (January 24, 2001). "With a little help from his friends ...: Gord Bamford releases new album Thursday night". Edmonton Journal. ProQuest   252842435 . Retrieved June 10, 2024.
  7. 1 2 3 Currie, Harry (February 23, 2001). "Writing his ticket; Steve Fox's songs have made it big, now it's his turn". The Record. Kitchener, Ontario. ProQuest   266924011 . Retrieved June 10, 2024.
  8. 1 2 3 4 Srivener, Leslie (January 7, 1990). "Just when you think you've got the Fox boys sorted out, they pop up in another guise. They're foxy that way - but always entertaining Crazy like a fox". Toronto Star. ProQuest   436126965 . Retrieved June 10, 2024.
  9. ↑ Erskine, Evelyn (April 27, 1990). "Vega still special in mystical way". The Ottawa Citizen . ProQuest   239487593 . Retrieved June 10, 2024.
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