Alphabet Songs Volume I (Aaron and His Aeroplane) is the first in a series of CDs of original music that dedicates a single song to each letter of the alphabet. The songs are upbeat, catchy tunes about the things that are important to kids and thei [+]Alphabet Songs Volume I (Aaron and His Aeroplane) is the first in a series of CDs of original music that dedicates a single song to each letter of the alphabet. The songs are upbeat, catchy tunes about the things that are important to kids and their parents, things like courage, tolerance, pancakes, dancing, patience, and, most of all, friends. "4 Little Girls" from this CD is nominated for the Just Plain Folks 2004 music awards, and all of the tunes have received radio airplay across the USA and are featured on XM Radio Channel 116 (XM Kids).
BIOGRAPHY:
Singer/songwriter Steve Weeks was born in rural South Carolina. He spent his summers in the bucolic fields of....
okay, it's me... Steve. Here I am writing my own biography. Most musicians' bios seem to be written from some adoring anonymous person, but it just feels kind of funny talking about yourself that way, and besides you're probably not fooled anyway, so I thought I'd just reveal myself up front. Here's my bio straight from the horse's mouth.
I actually was born and raised in the Carolinas, South Carolina to be specific. Not that you care where I spent my summers, but it was mostly playing around in the woods and in abandoned cotton fields. Occasionally in the mountains, occasionally at the beach... the Carolinas are beautiful in that way.
As young as I can remember, music was everywhere. It rang out in church. It was passed from person to person at the community bluegrass jams in the old abandoned one-room schoolhouse up the road. It breathed out of the furnace vents at night when someone in the house was plunking on our old upright piano. It was quietly hummed on the front porch swing, shouted out during long car trips, and whistled in the garden.
I guess it's no wonder that I turned out to be a songwriter. I sang in the choir, played in the school band, and tinkered around with just about any instrument I could get my hands on. In college at the University of South Carolina, I started playing the guitar, mainly because I had no access to a piano and my roommate wouldn't have appreciated trumpet recitals. I played in a couple of bands, collaborated on various recording projects, and discovered the joy of writing songs.
Over the years, I've developed a huge
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