Welcome to Steve Dafoe's place! The award winning songwriter tells stories about life & relationships. Picking up a guitar in the summer of 2002 led to writing melodies. The Vocal song's range from Folk, Rock , Alt./Cont./Classic Country, Americana, Jazz, R&B to Acoustic Rock......Instrumental's take it even further by including Latin, New Age, Neo-Classical, Bossa Nova, Specialized Soundtrack and Holiday music. "Desert Sun" was a Top 5 Folk Finalist in MTV VH-1 "Song of the Year" Contest in 2004! In 2008, "You Are The One" was # 2 in the same MTV VH-1 Contest in Folk . In 2005, a few Love Songs won the LoveJoy Worldwide Peer Contest at a Prestigious Indie Site, a very nice honor! In 2008, "Black Ghost" was Acoustic Song of the month in a prestigious Song Contest. No less than 23 Songs have charted in Blues, Rock, Country, Jazz, Folk & R&B on sites that include MP3.COM, RadioIndy, AirSun.com & BroadJam ! The CD Project's in the works now are "Rock Star Dad" and "Killer Tracks" ! Music to be licensed for TV\Film is sitting at many of the Major Music Libraries worldwide, including here at Audiosparx ! Enjoy!
CHART SUCESS's:
TOP 10 Charts (and # 1's) at several Prominent Indie site's, including MP3.com,Airspun, RadioIndie and Broadjam.....Rock, Blues, Folk, Jazz ,Country & R&B have all charted!!!
"Memories Of You" charted # 6 on MP3.COM (Easy Listening) 2008 "You Are The One" charted # 2 on MP3.COM (Easy Listening) 2008 & # 12 RadioIndy "South Carolina Way" charted # 12 on MP3.COM (Easy Listening) & Charted at RadioIndy 2008 "Black Pearl" has charted in Top 10 Chicago Blues worldwide 2007.(BJam) "End Of The Road" has charted at # 1 Chicago Blues worldwide. 2007-08 "Tommy" charted in Top 10 R&B worldwide !!! 2006-07 "And Can You?" charted Top 10 in Jazz worldwide. 2007 & Top 40 at MP3.COM "Storm Of Days" has charted in the BLUES COUNTRY at # 4 & in Folk Rock ! 2008 "You Are The One" has charted at # 1 in the Folk Religious World charts 2008 "LaSalle Street" has charted in Top 10 Chicago Blues worldwide 2007 "Why Don't You?" charted in Top 10 Jazz worldwide. 2007 "Black Ghost" has charted at # 1 the Rock Roots World charts!! 2008 "Distant Thunder" has charted in the Folk Country World charts!! 2008 "Seeing Through His Pain To The Bottom Of A Bottle"...Folk Country World 2008 "Stay With Me" is at #1 in Country Rock and Top 10 in Rock Religious (BJ) "You Are The One" has charted at # 2 AirSpun & # 12 at Radio.Indy 2008 "Play Some Country" charted # 8 on MP3.COM (Easy Listening) 2008 "If I Asked" has charted at AIRSPUN. Pop Charts 2008 "Why Don't You?" charted # 7 on MP3.COM (Easy Listening) 2008 "Blue Ivory" has charted at AIRSPUN. 2008 "Through To You" charted # 44 on MP3.COM 2008 "For All Things To Come" charted # 44 on MP3.COM 2008
AWARDS:
- 2008 (JAN) Acoustic Song Of The Month...."BLACK GHOST" at BROADJAM
- 2008 Song Of The Year & VH-1..."You Are The One" #2 in FOLK Song contest
- 2006 Winner (Peer Review) LOVE JOY Contest (2Songs) at BROADJAM (86,000+ members)
-2004 MTV VH-1 Song Contest.....4th place for "DESERT SUN" in the "Folk" genre.
-2004--2008.....13 songs including "Why Don't You", "Distant Thunder", "You Are The One", "Stay With Me", "Slow Burn" and many more were pressed onto Nashville Ltd. Edition CD's for special distribution to Retail and A/R people. Courtesy of the PARAMOUNT GROUP.
-2006 "Black Ghost" pressed onto "RIDE THE TRAIN" series! Vol # 32. Distributed WorldWide. Issued By NBT Records.
- 2006 John Mayer Songwriting competition.........."Finalist" with "Lone Cowboy"
PUBLISHING OPPORTUNITIES:
A US based Music Publishers NBT Records (ASCAP) has picked up a Multitude of Songs for pitching to Artists.
FILMOGRAPHY:
-2008 Israeli Short Film....Casus Belli (It means a cause to a war, in a free translation)in Hebrew.
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2 plus 2
personal reflection of 2people in love who end up having 2 kids.
Catalog Id: 238209
Composed: 2004
Pop Music •
Soft pop
Tempo: Slow
Artist: Steve Dafoe