Steven Ross Jahn Steven was born December 2, 1959 in Flint, Michigan. At the age of five, he started singing with his parents and 4 brothers and sisters in a gospel setting at his home and other places around Flint. When Steven was 10 years old, he began learning to play the acoustic guitar and honing his voice while singing along with records in his parents basement through an old reel to reel tape player he used as a PA system. Through his teenage years, he sang in various garage bands and worked on his songwriting skills. In 1980 shortly after being married, he and his wife Renee moved to South Texas and made the lower Rio Grande Valley their new home. While he worked as a salesman at a mobile home sales center in Harlingen Texas, he began acquiring a feel for country music. During his six year stay in the Harlingen area , he appeared on various TBN Christian telethons and he also appeared on a regularly aired television program called "The Faith That Pleases God"! In 1984 Steven won his first singing contest on a Hispanic television station by performing "After the Lovin" by Engelbert Humperdinck. This accomplishment launched him into a category of professional Singer that has taken him on a musical journey that has now lasted over 25 years.. After winning his first singing competition in 1984, Steven was entered into KBFM'S Texas Star Search Competition to compete for an appearance on the late Ed McMahon's television show in New York. Battling in the male vocalist category, Steven won numerous times but lost in the final round by a very small margin. Although greatly disappointed he never gave up on his dream of singing and songwriting professionally. After returning home to Michigan in 1986 , he began writing and recording songs about his experiences while living in the Valley of South Texas. While working on the album", South Texas Wind", Steven had an aquaintance with an agency owner named Martin Davidson who shopped Steven to some record labels in Nashville such as Arista Records. While rubbing elbows with some industry people at the Billboards 20th anniversary awards show for Bob Seger, Steven found himself in Nashville recording his most recognized song released by Round Robin Records called "Santa Bring My Daddy Home". After receiving significant airplay, Steven decided to follow up with another album called "My Extraordinary Woman" which was the title track along with other songs and some of Steven's originals found by TJ Kirby, a Nashville publisher and artist manager who acquired this song and several others for Steven. Produced by one of Nashvilles well know record producers Ronnie Lite, the sound now placed Steven in a class of singers that could compete with the NOW SOUND of country music of the 90's. Never losing his Christian roots, Steven recorded a Gospel album titled "Only For His Eyes" which is still one of his top selling discs today. With a remake of Marvin Gaye's smash hit "What's Goin On" and a twist of the 1979 Chart Buster "Hold On" by Ian Gomm, Steven had now crossed over into both the Country and Gospel music Genre's. His album released in 1999 "South Texas Wind" earned Steven notoriety that has reached other areas of the world including a 10 star review from "Whisperin and Hollerins" music review magazine critic Kirby Raine from the United Kingdom and a record distribution deal in the Phillipines in Tower Records. In 2001 shortly after the terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center Steven decided to release another Christmas album with his new Christmas hit called "Christmas is My Favorite Time Of Year" the title track to the CD. In 2007 the CD received an amazing regular rotation of four of Steven's Christmas songs off the album, and the stations heralded spot of "Artist Of The Month on WGDN 103.1 one of Mid Michigans largest country stations. Due to be released in the Fall of 2010 on Jahns newly formed record label "Dreamway Records and John Ross Music Publishing is the very anticipated "King Of Heaven" CD featuring one of the legendary Howard McCrary songs titled "My Incorruptible Crown". This album is a compilation of Stevens new gospel songs and guarantees to touch your soul with a newfound inspiration. Steven has recently been forming a new show and is now booking venues for the Steven Ross Jahn's "The Stars Of The Stage" Tribute show! This show features Steven performing as artist such as Toby Keith, Charlie Rich, and Ronnie Milsap. The show will be produced by Jason Ross Jahn who is the son of Steven and a very well known drummer having drummed with the likes of Ricky Medlock of Lynyrd Skynyrd and is also a Full Sail college student, earning his degree in the entertainment business. Many shows will have very well known special guest impersonators. Stevens busy schedule will be combining this new venture along with finding new and upcoming artist or bands to sign to his new label Dreamway Records from across the country.

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