Steven Van Zandt, often known as Miami Steve is an American rock musician, a guitarist and an idol musician, an actor as well as a record producer. He has been associated with several musical groups like Southside Johnny The Asbury Jukes, Little Steven The Disciples of Soul and some others as well, but is best known for playing the lead guitar in Bruce Springsteen The E Street Band. He and Bruce Springsteen were childhood friends, who after sharing an interest in music for several years, started working together and formed a band where Steve played the mandolin and guitar too. Since 1975, he also started out as a writer and has written many songs for Bruce, Born to Run, Freeze Out and many others. Similarly, he was also the writer for Southside Johnny and the Asbury Jukes, and later became the producer of the band making many hit songs like “I don’t want to go home” and “Hearts of Stone” which were the signature records of this band. Between 1984 and 1999, he was not involved in any bands and used to work as a solo artist making soul music, to hard rock and later world music. He had released 4 albums during this time, and many of his songs were included in the Bill Board top 100 list. He, along with 49 other legendary singers formed the “Artists United Against Apartheid” activist group which boycotted the Sun City resort and it’s work in South Africa. P ... Read more