Steve Sieck

Previously active in New York City as a songwriter and singer/pianist, I moved to Los Angeles in 2021. My music aims to mix pop, jazz, and R&B genres with meaningful lyrics and a soulful delivery. My major musical influences include Donald Fagen, Stevie Wonder, Bob Dorough, and Kurt Weill.

My first album, "21st Century Blues" was nominated for a MAC Award* as "Best Recording" in 2014.  In TalkinBroadway.com, reviewer Rob Lester described it as "Well worth the listen…wry observational humor and the low-key approach remind me of jazz wit stalwart Mose Allison in writing and singing…but seriousness is only inches below the surface, making this CD deepen with repeated listening…a feel-good experience with some gratifying grit."

In New York, I've performed at venues such as The Iridium, The Metropolitan Room, Pangea, Urban Stages, Don’t Tell Mama, The Duplex, and The Bitter End;  St. Mark’s Church in-the-Bowery (concerts and choir) and Theatre 80 St. Marks; and as part of New York Songwriters Alliance showcases. In 2020, I was asked to produce "My Side of Town: The Music of Steve Sieck” for Urban Stages' "Winter Rhythms" festival.  

In LA, I performed my first show of mostly original music in 2023, "Good Evening, LA," to a capacity house at the Gardenia in Hollywood.  And I'm aiming for an album launch - and launch-party show - sometime in mid-2024.

My songs have been described by nightlife reviewer Alix Cohen (WomanAroundTown.com) as “smart, deft, and truthful."  A BroadwayWorld.com reviewer commented, "His songs are catchy, easy to listen to, and reminiscent of the jazzy standards written in the '40s and '50s.”  And, ahem, New York Times chief classical music critic Anthony Tomassini praised my 2009 performance as Harry Druggist in Marc Blitzstein’s 1930s agit-prop musical "The Cradle Will Rock." 

I'm super-excited about the large set of new original songs I'm recording with producer/arranger Dori Amarilio and an elite cast of "LA cats" and jazz and gospel vocalists. Please watch for the release in mid-'24.

*A juried award given by the Manhattan Association of Cabarets & Clubs  

Awards

My first album, "21st Century Blues" was nominated for a MAC Award* as "Best Recording" in 2014.

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