Steve Snelling is a riveting jazz pianist whose silken technique grows from a lifetime of performance and experience. Evolving through rock, soul, Mowtown, and R & B, Steve's real depth as a musician comes from experience in "about a thousand bands - from American garage to full-on symphonic mayhem."

His multifaceted background includes acting in professional theater, performing and teaching modern dance (with the Oregon Dance Theater), and a master’s degree in Classical Piano Performance. On his first full-length CD, Perfect Strangers, Steve merges his skills as a pianist with razor-sharp wordplay and rhyme in a collection of musical essays on the nature of life’s disconnect. These songs are delivered in a refreshing, original voice, yet unabashedly bearing some of the artist's many influences - Joni Mitchell’s bittersweet lyrical imagery, Mose Allison’s wistful tone, the intimacy of Bill Evans’ ballads and Sting’s soaring vocal laments.

Perfect Strangers is sophisticated and cleverly accessible, with themes ranging from sometimes dreamy, sometimes gritty melodies to surprisingly catchy hooks. From the portrait of a violent disabled teen (“Daniel”), to the simple heartbreak in the universal hunger for love (“Perfect Strangers”), or the rebuke to the harsh lessons we unwittingly teach our children (“Precious Vessels”), many of these songs involve difficult stories told in lush musical settings; thorny subjects wrapped in tender melodies and rich harmonies. These songs don't simply entertain - they sooth and they teach, each story a journey guiding the listener closer to the heart.

Perfect Strangers is available on iTunes, CD Baby, and on the artist's website, www.stevesnelling.com.

Radio: Steve's music has been profiled on the nationally syndicated radio programs, "This Way Out" and "IMRU".

Steve makes his home in San Francisco, performing and teaching throughout the Bay area. He is currently working on a solo recording project featuring originals, arrangements of well-crafted pop tunes, and a few choice standards.