Steve Fox is a Canadian country music singer-songwriter based in Nashville.[1][2] He is best known for writing "Moving to a Small Town"[3] and Montgomery Gentry's hit song "Daddy Won't Sell the Farm", which went Platinum and Gold in the United States.[2] As an independent performing artist in Canada, he has toured with Kenny Rogers, opened for country stars including Dwight Yoakum and Michelle Wright, and headlined at festivals including the Calgary Stampede.[3][2] He is credited as a songwriter on many albums.[3][2] He has worked with producer and publisher Joe Scaife, as well as Cal IV Entertainment.[4][5]
In 2001, Fox won the Canadian Country Music Association's Songwriter of the Year Award.[6] He was nominated for CD of the Year for his album Small World[2] and nominated for a Juno Award for Best Male Vocalist for his 1993 album, The Days of My Youth (True North/Sony).[2]
Early life and education
Fox grew up in a musical family in the Vancouver suburb of Coquitlam, British Columbia.[7][2][8] His father John worked in radio broadcasting, while his mother Ella was an oboe player in a chamber orchestra.[8] His three brothers later pursued careers in music and acting.[8] He left Coquitlam after graduating from Centennial Secondary, and traveled through Europe and the Middle East.[2]
Career
Fox moved to Toronto in the mid-1980s to pursue a career in music, performing and writing songs for several folk, R&B, and rockabilly bands, and working as a sound engineer.[7][2] While fronting a rockabilly band called The Tin Eddies, he got his break with a solo rock LP, Where The Blue Moon Rises.[8][9] In 1993, he had his first minor hit, The Days of My Youth, on the True North/Sony label, and was nominated for a Juno Award for Best Male Vocalist.[2] In 2001 he released Small World which went platinum and led to the notable singles "Small Town", "Cheap Red Wine" and "Couple On The Cake", a duet with Beverley Mahood, and a video featuring Leslie Nielsen. He released the album Lunch With Chet with the single "Dream On".[citation needed] He is noted for writing the Montgomery Gentry single "Daddy Won't Sell The Farm", which reached No. 13 on the Billboard music chart and No. 1 on CMT; it won the Canadian Country Music Association SOCAN song of the year award.[7] He wrote "24 X 24", recorded by Gord Bamford.[6]
Fox produced records for other artists, and released his own single, "If My Life Was a Movie" in January 2007.[citation needed]
