Bio -

 Awards -  
-1st place winner of the "Extreme Guitar Challenge" guitar playing competition at Mars Music, 1999.  

- Winner of "Best Guitar solo" at Mai Tai's Daytona Beach BOTB 2013.

- Winner of the BOTB in Nashville TN 2021.

 Steve first picked up the guitar at age 7. By 7th grade in school, he was playing numerous wedding and gigs with his fathers band and also had an original band called "The Sock Monkeys!" 

At 15, he won first place in the “Extreme Guitar Challenge” guitar playing competition at Mars Music in Orlando. He was the youngest out of all the guitarist competing. A week after graduating high school, he auditioned and joined the working group BWT and was playing at numerous venues in Central FL four nights a week, sometimes two gigs a night. They eventually recorded a full length album at Full Sail University and did interviews and live performances on FM radio. 

On his 19th birthday, he bought a plane ticket and headed to Los Angeles to join the group “Turbulence" and played regular shows at the world famous Sunset Blvd. clubs, The Whisky A Go-Go and The Roxy! 

In 2008, he was featured in Guitar Player Magazine, in which the editor praised his original work and guitar playing. He has done over 1500 pro gigs in the Central FL area alone, and is also a music teacher. 

His first album was originally released on Steve Vai's Digital Nations label in 2011, and has since then been released on his own label. 
After the release of his second album, "Multiverse Collision" in 2015, Steve got featured in "Music Connection Magazine "{Oct. 2015}, "Fireworks UK Mazagazine" {Sep. 2015}, and "Jamsphere Magazine" {Dec 2015}, all of which gave great reviews of the album. The album features new recordings as well as material written and recorded at age 17 when Steve was in high school. The song "Time" has currently gotten airplay on FM radio, three years after the albums release. 

In summer 2016 he headed to Nashville and played some legendary venues such as Second Fiddle on Broadway and Bourbon Street Blues. In 2017 he did shows with members of KISS, Brian Wilson and Cinderella to theaters , auditoriums and outdoor city events. Since then he has done tours with Hot Blooded and also a country act, doing shows in KY, TN, and NY. 

Another album worth of original material was completed from August 2020 - June 2021. Three tracks from his teenage years that needed vocals, and the remaining were newly written tracks, such as "Mesopotamia." 

Returning yet again to Nashville in summer 2021, he got to perform some hard rock in Downtown Nashville and travel to different cities in Alabama for live shows. 

In the summer of 2023 Steve went on the road performing in the Chicago area and Wisconsin with the drummer from Florida Georgia Line performing at festivals.

He is currently in Kansas City performing with touring act Damien Gunn.