Steve Stewart has more than 20 years of management experience in the music and entertainment industry. As founder and president of Steve Stewart Entertainment, a Los Angeles-based artist management and entertainment company, he has negotiated and secured lucrative major label record and publishing contracts on behalf of approximately 20 recording artists with companies such as Sony Music, Warner Bros. Records, Atlantic Records, Capitol Records, Disney’s Hollywood Records, A&M Records, Geffen Records, Elektra Records, American Records, Maverick Records, EMI Music Publishing, Famous Music Publishing, Rondor Music, Warner Chappell Music Publishing and Universal Music Publishing.
Steve is the former personal manager of multi-platinum alternative rock band Stone Temple Pilots, managing their career from inception through their fourth major label release on Atlantic Records. Under Steve’s management, the band’s worldwide record sales totaled in excess of 25 million records, generating more than $450 million in gross revenues. Along the way, they were awarded a Grammy, an American Music Award, numerous Billboard Music Awards, MTV Music Video and MTV Movie Awards, and a number of Pollstar, ASCAP and BMI accolades. Steve has produced a number of national tours with multi-million dollar budgets, playing such venues as Madison Square Garden, The Los Angeles Forum and San Francisco’s Shoreline Amphitheater among other arenas. His acts have toured with the likes of The Rolling Stones, Aerosmith, Neil Young and Cheap Trick, playing to more than 5 million people worldwide.
Steve has also produced television programming for MTV, VH-1 and InDemand Pay-Per-View (Comcast), and is currently developing a number of film and television properties. He is also managing and handling business development for one of the internet’s most viewed personalities, Marina Orlova (Hot For Words), utilizing new media and social networking opportunities to garner in excess of 350 million views and 360,000 subscribers, becoming one of YouTube’s top 25 content providers of all time.
Prior to starting his company in 1992, Steve worked with rapper/actor Ice T during development of the first Lollapalooza Tour and as Music Coordinator for motion picture projects including, “New Jack City,” “Trespass,” and “Ricochet,” and as Soundtrack Coordinator for “Deep Cover.” He also founded a post production company called Propeller, generating in excess of $1 million a year in revenues and completing both film and video projects for clients including Mariah Carey, Aerosmith, Nine Inch Nails, NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory, MTV, Miramax Films, VH-1, CBS’s “Nash Bridges,” and Disney.
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