Steve Greenberg (record producer)

Steve Greenberg
Steve Greenberg
	Steve Greenberg (center) speaks at Kinnernet on May 9, 2009. AOL founder Steve Case (foreground) observes.
Background information
Born	United States
Genres	Pop music; rock music; hip hop;
Occupation(s)	Record producer; songwriter; music executive;
Labels	S-Curve

Steve Greenberg is an American record producer currently heading the S-Curve Records label.^[1] He also manages the pop band AJR and is the host/writer of the podcast "Speed of Sound".

He is noted for "discovering" popular musical acts such as

Hot 100 chart, and their debut album Middle of Nowhere

.

S-Curve's roster/catalog includes

Care Bears On Fire, David Broza, Rachel Crow, Broadway star Joshua Henry, A Great Big World, Maxi Priest and Diane Birch

.

Greenberg co-produced

Care Bears On Fire's single "Everybody Else" with S*A*M and Sluggo

.

In 2013, he produced several tracks on Diane Birch's "Speak a Little Louder" album. He also traveled to Jerusalem to co-produce, with Steve Earle, the album "East Jerusalem/West Jerusalem" by the Israeli singer David Broza, backed by a half-Israeli, half-Palestinian ensemble. He appears in the documentary film on the making of "East Jerusalem/West Jerusalem." That year, he also began managing the band AJR, with their debut single "I'm Ready" becoming certified Platinum in the U.S. and Australia.

He has co-written songs for

Leslie Odom, Jr.

and others.

He was also nominated for

Stax/Volt Singles 1959-1968" boxed-set and in 1995 in the "Best Album Notes" category for "Otis! the Essential Otis Redding

.

In 2020, Greenberg launched the pop music history podcast "Speed of Sound," produced by

iHeart Media

. Greenberg is the host, writer and co-producer of the podcast.

He contributed the chapter on

Vibe Magazine History of Hip Hop" (1999) and the chapter on pop music in the 1980s to the collection "Living In the '80's" (Gil Troy, ed.), published by Oxford University Press

(2009).

In 2014, he published his first book, called "How the Beatles Went Viral In '64", about the Beatles' rise to U.S stardom. The book was excerpted as a cover story in Billboard magazine in January, 2014.

In the early 1980s, he was a DJ on the Voice of Peace radio station off the coast of Israel and was a news correspondent for Israel Radio, based in Tel Aviv. He holds an M.A. in Applied Communication Research from Stanford University and a B.A in International Relations from American University.

In 2020, he won the

Grammy Award for "Best Album Notes" for Stax Records album, Stax ’68: A Memphis Story.^[2]

References

^ Rolling Stone
^ Grammy Winners List 2020 by Zoe Haylock, Vulture.com, January 27, 2020.

v t e Baha Men
Albums	Who Let the Dogs Out Move It Like This Greatest Movie Hits Holla!
Singles	"Dancing in the Moonlight" "Who Let the Dogs Out" "You All Dat" "Move It Like This"
Filmography	My Father the Hero Stanley
People	Rik Carey Anslem Douglas Steve Greenberg

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