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Steve Nieve (Stephen John Nason) was born on 21 February, 1958 in London, United Kingdom, is an English musician and composer. Discover Steve Nieve's Biography, Age, Height, Physical Stats, Dating/Affairs, Family and career updates. Learn How rich is he in this year and how he spends money? Also learn how he earned most of networth at the age of 66 years old?

Popular As Stephen John Nason
Occupation Musician · composer
Age 66 years old
Zodiac Sign Pisces
Born 21 February, 1958
Birthday 21 February
Birthplace London, United Kingdom
Nationality United Kingdom

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1958

Steve Nieve ( "naïve"; born Stephen John Nason, 21 February 1958) is an English musician and composer.

In a career spanning more than 40 years, Nieve has been a member of Elvis Costello's backing bands the Attractions and the Imposters, as well as Madness.

He has also experienced success as a prolific session musician, featured on a wide array of other artists' recordings.

1977

Nieve was born in Bishop's Stortford, England, and was educated at St Dunstan's College in London and later attended the Royal College of Music, but dropped out in 1977 to join Elvis Costello's backing band the Attractions.

Nason received his musical moniker "Nieve" (pronounced "naïve") while on the Attractions' first tour for Stiff Records.

It was bestowed by tourmate Ian Dury who had been astonished by Nason's innocent query, "What's a groupie?"

Before that, at least briefly, he had been using the stage name "Steve A'dore" (a pun on stevedore).

1978

Nieve played piano, organ and other keyboard instruments on most of Costello's projects over the next ten years, including the albums This Year's Model (1978), Imperial Bedroom (1982) and Blood & Chocolate (1986).

1980

In the mid-1980s, Costello began to work less frequently with the Attractions and stopped working with them entirely between 1987 and 1993.

During this period Nieve focused on session work for other artists (the Neville Brothers, Hothouse Flowers, Graham Parker, Squeeze, Tim Finn, Kirsty MacColl, Madness, Nick Heyward and David Bowie).

1983

Keyboard Jungle (1983) was his first, a combination of classical and ersatz film scores played on a Steinway piano.

1984

On the 1984 Costello album Goodbye Cruel World and its accompanying tour, he was credited as "Maurice Worm".

His instrument credit on the album was not for playing keyboards, but for providing "random racket".

Under the name Norman Brain he wrote some material on The Attractions' Costello-less album Mad About the Wrong Boy in collaboration with his then girlfriend, Fay Hart.

(He also wrote other songs on the album as Steve Nieve.)

1986

Also in 1986, Nieve formed the group the Perils of Plastic with ex-Deaf School vocalist Steve Allen, releasing three non-charting singles in the UK in 1986 and 1987.

At around the same time he led the house band (billed as Steve Nieve and The Playboys) on the UK TV series The Last Resort with Jonathan Ross.

1987

His second album, Playboy (1987), consisted of solo acoustic piano renditions of rock songs by David Bowie, 10cc, the Specials, X and others, as well as original compositions.

Though both albums were released only in the UK by the independent label Demon Music Group, they were critically well received and noted for their "display [of] the artist's wit, compositional talent and abundant instrumental agility."

1990

They have toured as a duo, and Nieve has contributed keyboards to all of Costello's albums since the mid-1990s, including 1998's Burt Bacharach collaboration Painted From Memory and 2001's Anne Sofie von Otter collaboration For the Stars.

1994

Costello reunited the Attractions for 1994's album Brutal Youth.

1996

Although the reunion was relatively short-lived (they split again in 1996), the Costello/Nieve collaborations never ceased.

Nieve followed these with the albums It's Raining Somewhere (1996), Mumu (2001) and Windows (2004).

2001

In 2001, Costello formed a new backing band consisting of Nieve, Attractions drummer Pete Thomas, and bassist Davey Faragher.

The band were subsequently dubbed the Imposters.

2002

Elvis Costello & the Imposters have toured extensively and released the albums When I Was Cruel (2002), North (2003), The Delivery Man (2004), The River in Reverse (2006, featuring Allen Toussaint), Momofuku (2008), National Ransom (2010), Look Now (2018) and The Boy Named If (2022).

2003

In 2003, he was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame as a member of Elvis Costello and the Attractions.

2007

His classical opera, Welcome to the Voice, a collaboration with Muriel Téodori, was released on Deutsche Grammophon in May 2007.

The score was interpreted by Barbara Bonney, Sting, Robert Wyatt, Elvis Costello, Amanda Roocroft, Nathalie Manfrino and Sara Fulgoni for the voices.

For the music the Brodsky Quartet interpreted a written score, while Marc Ribot, Ned Rothenberg and Nieve improvised.

Nieve also composed the score to Téodori's film Sans Plomb.

2008

Welcome to the Voice was premiered at the Théâtre du Châtelet in Paris in 2008, with Sylvia Schwartz in the role of Lily, and the involvement of both Sting and Costello.

2014

In 2014, Nieve released ToGetHer.

In recent years, Nieve has lived in France with his wife Muriel Téodori.

2020

In 2020, Nieve won a Grammy Award for his work with Costello and the Imposters on Look Now.

Nieve (without the other Imposters) accompanied Costello again on Hey Clockface (2020).

In addition to his work with Costello, Nieve has released several solo albums.