David Steele (musician)
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| David Steele | ||
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| Background information | ||
| Born | September 8, 1960 Cowes, Isle of Wight, England |
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| Genre(s) | Ska 2 Tone |
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| Instrument(s) | Bass guitar, Songwriter. | |
| Years active | 1978- | |
| Label(s) | SonyBMG | |
| Associated acts |
The Beat Fine Young Cannibals |
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| Website | Fried | |
David Steele (born September 8, 1960, Isle of Wight) is an English musician who was a member of The Beat and Fine Young Cannibals
From 1978 up to 1983, Steele was the bass guitarist in the 2 Tone ska revival band,The Beat (known in the United States as The English Beat). After Ranking Roger and Dave Wakeling left The Beat to form General Public, Steele and guitarist Andy Cox recruited singer Roland Gift to form Fine Young Cannibals, whose career lasted into the early 1990s.
Steele's bass lines in The Beat took the Jamaican style of ska and added a harder, more aggressive punk rock style. The Beat song "Mirror in the Bathroom" is largely built on top of the driving, eighth-note bass line that runs through the entire song. Fine Young Cannibals had a more soulful and sometimes electronic sound, and Steele's bass lines were less prominent in that band.
After the end of his work with Fine Young Cannibals, Steele went on to play a variety of other roles in the music industry. He produced Gabrielle's album Find Your Way, which reached #8 on the UK albums chart in 1993, as well as the soundtrack to the movie The Truth About Cats and Dogs in 1996. He has appeared on more than two dozen other albums, most commonly as a backing singer, but also as a guitarist, drummer, and mixer.
In summer 2004, he released the album Fried, on which he collaborated with the New Orleans vocalist Jonte Short. The album is a mix of soul/funk and R&B. The band Fried has signed to SonyBMG, and their second album is scheduled for release in 2007. The song "Walk Don't Run" is on the band's MySpace profile.[1]
The Internet Movie Database (IMDB) erroneously lists Steele as an actor in a number of 1990s and 2000s pornographic films. IMDB has confused the UK musician, who is white, with an African American pornographic film actor of the same name.
