Quickly appearing among the names of today's top artists, Joshua Stevens has risen above his humble beginnings and poised himself to be a musical success. His passion and determination have mixed together to create one of the hottest new singer-songwriters in Nashville.
Josh was raised in Churchville, Iowa. After high school, Josh attended the University of Northern Iowa, where he obtained a performance scholarship for saxophone. Josh soon moved to California when he realized he had bigger dreams to fullfill. While in California, Stevens broadened his musical ability by playing studio saxophone for independent and major acts while gigging with several live bands. He toured up and down the west coast for three years before teaching himself to play guitar. He started writing country songs and entered himself into several singer/songwriter competitions. He ended up winning first place in the 'Sing To Win' Competition at the World Famous Crazy Horse Saloon. It was at this point that Josh made the decision to make the move to Nashville. As soon as Joshua came to town, he began playing every songwriter round available. He met Craig Wisemen, whom led him to his first publishing deal with Combustion Music. One highlight of his career while at Combustion was co-writing the song, "That Could Happen To Us" for the Fox motion picture 'Kissing Jessica Stein'. Joshua also had the song, "I'll Wait For You" recorded by Arista Recording artists, Diamond Rio, as well as the title track and first single in Canada for Universal Recording artist, Michael Carey. Joshua has had songs recorded by producers such as Dann Huff, Mark Bright, Marty Williams, Bobby Terry, Chris Farren, Mike Clute, and Randy Bachman.
He is currently a staff writer at Full Circle Music Publishing, with a song he wrote for Danielle Peck coming out in January! Joshua appeared on this season of "Nashville Star" (USA Network), landing him on a summer long tour! Between the 9 million viewers every week, and the thousands of people that came out for the tour, Joshua has built a strong, loyal fanbase! He now is signed to a recording contract with Robbins Nashville! His first single, "Rock n' Roll and Pensacola", hits airwaves in March! Make sure to call in and request it!!! And go buy Danielle Peck's new cd this summer to hear one of Joshua's songs, "Do It For Me"!
