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About Stephen Beck
Steve Beck is a Contemporary Christian musician who began performing Christian music on the drums in the 6th grade. In High School, he participated in multiple band and choir ensembles, sang with a school worship team and his church’s choir, and was selected to join the All-State Chorus. At the University of Delaware, Steve won the Music Merit Award, which granted him percussion lessons for a semester with Harvey Price-a percussionist with the Philadelphia Orchestra. Steve continued to study with him for 8 semesters and earned a minor degree in Applied Percussion. He participated in three University ensembles and accompanied two local Symphony Orchestras in his senior year. During his time in college, Steve played the drum set and sang in 3 different rock groups and played in the pit band for two theater companies which produced Godspell and The Fantastics. A year after graduation, Steve was playing the drums and singing full time with a Pop-Rock band called The Snap, who performed 4 times per week.
After 5 years with The Snap, he was inspired to write Contemporary Christian Music similar to groups such as Jars of Clay, Third Day, Rich Mullins, and Casting Crowns. Steve remembers, “It was in the mid 90’s that a Contemporary Christian Radio Station began broadcasting in my area, and I thought ‘This is the kind of music I want to write.’” He joined his brother’s Contemporary Christian band, started a Contemporary Christian DJ company, and volunteered with his church’s worship team where he often would lead worship at Friday Night Worship services on the guitar.
Steve recently produced a 5 song EP entitled Godcidence to encourage, inspire, and bring glory to Jesus.