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Steven Leavitt - Los Angeles

Steven Leavitt is an independent music producer, engineer, and musician based near Los Angeles, California.

He has been busy with a host of projects recently including an EP for the Venus Illuminato and a single on Marina V’s latest release “Modern Fairytale.” Upcoming projects span gamut of genres from Pop to Rock to Electronic as well as more experimental ventures into all of the above.

Steve picked up the piano at the age of 8 years old and started writing by the age of 12. As a teenager he preferred to spend a majority of his weekends and summers in his room with his 4 track, Mackie board and 32 channels of midi programming hundreds of electronic instrumental pieces.

He went on to form a band and was playing local coffee houses, churches, and parks in his hometown by age 15. Then, at 17, recording a full album for a group at his high school was one of his most ambitious tasks.

Leavitt then graduated from the Musician's Institute, in Hollywood California, where he studied as a recording engineer. He also attended Pepperdine University before leaving to pursue the music industry.

In 2004, Steve founded Don't Call Us Tori with Los Angeles based singer/songwriter Shannon Hurley, which has become a haven for great music in L.A. helping to cross-promote specifically female solo artists.

In 2005, Steve co-produced Real Life Music’s release “Gravity Always Wins” for Dave Tough.

Steve's unique sound is influenced uniquely by his keyboard playing roots. Recently, after a stint in a classic-rock revival band discovered his new found love for the Hammond B3. Steve owns a reproduction, the Korg BX-3 complete with classic drawbars and two levels of keys. Of his compositions, people have said he likes to paint musical pictures, telling an emotional story much like a movie soundtrack. His favorite influences include such diversities as Radiohead and Lyle Lovett, Rage Against the Machine and Bruce Hornsby, and he prefers modern film composers like James Horner to J.S. Bach.

Steven Leavitt works freelance and from his own project studio in North Los Angeles.

Web – www.stevenleavitt.com
Email – steven@stuntrev.com