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Stevie (given Name)
Stevie is a unisex given name, usually a short form (hypocorism) of Stephen, Steven, Stephanie and other names, and occasionally a nickname. It may refer to: *Stevie Baggs (born 1981), American former football player, actor, motivational speaker, and author *Stephanie Stevie Cameron (born 1943), Canadian investigative journalist and writer *Stevana Stevie Case (born 1976), American game designer and eSports player *Stephen Stevie Eskinazi (born 1994), South African-born English cricketer *Stephen Flemmi (born 1934), Italian-American gangster and FBI informant *Stephen Stevie Jackson (born 1969), Scottish guitarist, singer and songwriter *Steven Stevie Johnson (born 1986), American football player *Steven Stevie May (born 1992), Scottish footballer *Stevie McCrorie (born 1985), Scottish singer-songwriter *Stephanie Stevie Nicks (born 1948), American singer-songwriter, best known for her work with Fleetwood Mac and solo career *Stevie Ray (fighter) (born 1990), Scottish mixed martial a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Given Name
A given name (also known as a forename or first name) is the part of a personal name quoted in that identifies a person, potentially with a middle name as well, and differentiates that person from the other members of a group (typically a family or clan) who have a common surname. The term ''given name'' refers to a name usually bestowed at or close to the time of birth, usually by the parents of the newborn. A ''Christian name'' is the first name which is given at baptism, in Christian custom. In informal situations, given names are often used in a familiar and friendly manner. In more formal situations, a person's surname is more commonly used. In Western culture, the idioms "" and "being on first-name terms" refer to the familiarity inherent in addressing someone by their given name. By contrast, a surname (also known as a family name, last name, or Gentile name, ''gentile'' name) is normally inherited and shared with other members of one's immediate family. Regnal names ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Stevie Rodriguez
Esteban "Stevie" Rodriguez Loera (born February 11, 1994) is an American professional soccer player. Career Club Rodriguez signed with Club Tijuana upon turning 18 in 2012, with his youth club, Chivas USA, having been unable to reach a deal for him under Major League Soccer's Homegrown Player Rule. He was loaned to Dorados, Tijuana's Ascenso MX affiliate, in 2014. He scored his first career first-team goal in August 2014. Atlante In December 2015, Club Tijuana send Rodriguez on loan to Atlante FC. International Born in the United States, Rodriguez is of Mexican descent. He started four matches for the United States at the 2011 FIFA U-17 World Cup. Honors United States U17 *CONCACAF U-17 Championship: 2011 The year marked the start of a Arab Spring, series of protests and revolutions throughout the Arab world advocating for democracy, reform, and economic recovery, later leading to the depositions of world leaders in Tunisia, Egypt, and Yemen ... References Exter ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Stevie Young
Stephen Crawford Young Jr. (born 11 December 1956) is an Australian musician, and the rhythm guitarist and backing vocalist for the Australian rock & roll band AC/DC. He joined the band in April 2014, to record the group's '' Rock or Bust'' album, but was not announced as an official member of the band until September of that year. He replaced his uncle, Malcolm Young, who retired due to dementia. He had previously filled in for Malcolm on AC/DC's 1988 US tour. Early life Stephen Crawford Young Jr was born 11 December 1956 in Glasgow, Scotland. Young is the son of Stephen Crawford Young Sr. (1933–1989), who was the eldest brother of Angus, Malcolm, George, and Alex Young. He emigrated with his family from Scotland to Sydney in 1963. The family settled in Concord, New South Wales. He returned to Scotland in 1970. Career Early music career After his first bands, The Stabbers, Prowler and Tantrum formed in the Scottish Borders town of Hawick in the late 1970s, Young made two ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Stevie Wright
Stephen Carlton Wright (20 December 1947 – 27 December 2015) was an Australian singer, songwriter, and musician. Called Australia's first international pop star, he is best known for being the lead singer of the Easybeats, who are widely regarded as the greatest Australian pop band of the 1960s. Born in Leeds, Wright migrated with his family to Australia at the age of nine, living in Melbourne and later Sydney at the Villawood Migrant Hostel, where he met his future bandmates and formed the Easybeats. Their early hits were co-written by Wright with bandmate George Young, including top ten hits such as "She's So Fine", "Wedding Ring", "Sorry" and "Women (Make You Feel Alright)". He was lead vocalist on their only international hit, " Friday on My Mind", which peaked at number one in Australia in 1966, the top ten in the United Kingdom, and the top twenty in the United States and Canada. After the Easybeats disbanded in 1969, Wright fronted numerous groups including the Stevie ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Stevie Woods (musician)
Joseph Stephen "Stevie" Woods Jr. (July 2, 1951 – January 28, 2014) was an American R&B musician and singer. Biography Woods was born in Chatham, Virginia, to jazz great Rusty Bryant. In the late 1970s, he was a member of the funk band Crowd Pleasers. In the early 1980s, his two singles, "Steal the Night" and "Just Can't Win 'Em All", reached top 40 on the ''Billboard'' Hot 100. After his brief U.S. fame fizzled, Woods relocated to Germany, where he successfully re-launched his career, releasing the single "Rock Me Baby" and starring in the musical ''Starlight Express''.Woods, Cheri. ''Death Row Madam: Exposing Sex and Drugs in the Entertainment Industry''. Taking Care of Business, 2001. In 2010, all three of his early-1980s albums, which had been originally released by Cotillion Records, were re-issued on CD by Wounded Bird Records. The following year, he released the album ''Quiet Storm''. Personal life Woods, a former Marine, graduated from Austin Community College. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Stevie Wonder
Stevland Hardaway Morris (; Judkins; born May 13, 1950), known professionally as Stevie Wonder, is an American and Ghanaian singer-songwriter, musician, and record producer. He is regarded as one of the most influential musicians of the 20th century. Wonder is credited as a pioneer and influence by musicians across a range of genres that include rhythm and blues, R&B, Pop music, pop, Soul music, soul, Gospel music, gospel, funk, and jazz. A virtual one-man band, Wonder's use of synthesizers and other electronic musical instruments during the 1970s reshaped the conventions of contemporary R&B. He also helped drive such genres into the album era, crafting his LP record, LPs as cohesive and consistent, in addition to socially conscious statements with complex compositions. Visual impairment, Blind since shortly after his birth, Wonder was a child prodigy who signed with Motown's Tamla label at the age of 11, where he was given the professional name Little Stevie Wonder. Wonder's s ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Steve Winwood
Stephen Lawrence Winwood (born 12 May 1948) is an English musician and songwriter whose genres include blue-eyed soul, rhythm and blues, blues rock, and pop rock. Though primarily a guitarist, keyboard player, and vocalist prominent for his distinctive Soul music, soulful high tenor voice, Winwood plays other instruments proficiently, including drums, mandolin, bass, and saxophone. Winwood achieved fame during the 1960s and 1970s as an integral member of three successful bands: the Spencer Davis Group (1964–1967), Traffic (band), Traffic (1967–1969 and 1970–1974), and Blind Faith (1969). During the 1980s, his solo career flourished and he had a number of hit singles, including "While You See a Chance" (1980) from the album ''Arc of a Diver'' and "Valerie (Steve Winwood song), Valerie" (1982) from ''Talking Back to the Night'' ("Valerie" became a hit when it was re-released with a remix from Winwood's 1987 compilation album ''Chronicles (Steve Winwood album), Chronicles''). ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Stevie Ray Vaughan
Stephen Ray Vaughan (also known as SRV; October 3, 1954 – August 27, 1990) was an American musician, best known as the guitarist and frontman of the blues rock trio Stevie Ray Vaughan and Double Trouble (band), Double Trouble. Although his mainstream career spanned only seven years, he is considered one of the most influential musicians in the history of blues music, and one of the greatest guitarists of all time. He was the younger brother of guitarist Jimmie Vaughan. Born and raised in Dallas, Vaughan began playing guitar at age seven, initially inspired by his brother Jimmie. In 1972, he dropped out of high school and moved to Austin, Texas, Austin, where he began to gain a following after playing gigs on the local club circuit. Vaughan joined forces with Tommy Shannon on bass and Chris Layton on drums as Double Trouble in 1978. The band established itself in the Austin music scene and soon became one of the most popular acts in Texas. They performed at the Montreux Jazz Fe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Stevie Vann
Stevie Vann (born Stevie van Kerken), also known as Stevie Lange, is a Zambian-born British singer and vocal coach. She is best known for her work as a backing vocalist and studio singer for many groups and solo performers in the 1970s and 1980s. As lead vocalist for the group Night, she had two top 20 U.S. chart hits in the late 1970s. Biography Early years Stevie Vann was raised in Mufulira, Northern Rhodesia (now Zambia). She showed an early aptitude for music, playing piano by age six. Soon after turning 16 Stevie starred in her own television variety show and within a few years she had released two solo albums. In high demand as a radio and TV commercial jingle singer while still a teen, she also earned a "Sarie Award" as South Africa's Top Female Vocalist. Professional career Vann met Robert "Mutt" Lange when the two attended the same school in Mufulira, and the two reconnected a few years later while attending Belfast High School in South Africa. The two would play toget ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Stevie Tu'ikolovatu
Steven Camae Tu'ikolovatu (born June 28, 1991) is an American former professional football player who was a nose tackle for the Tampa Bay Buccaneers of the National Football League (NFL). He played college football for the Utah Utes before transferring to the USC Trojans. He is the nephew of Sione Po'uha, a fellow defensive tackle drafted by the New York Jets in 2005. Professional career Tu'ikolovatu was selected by the Tampa Bay Buccaneers in the seventh round, 223rd overall, in the 2017 NFL draft. He was placed on injured reserve on September 1, 2017. On August 16, 2018, Tu'ikolovatu was waived/injured The following terms are used in American football, both conventional and indoor. Some of these terms are also in use in Canadian football; for a list of terms unique to that code, see '' Glossary of Canadian football''. 0–9 ... by the Buccaneers with a triceps injury and was placed on injured reserve. On May 29, 2019, the Buccaneers waived Tu'ikolovat ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Stevie Spring
Stephanie Spring (born 10 June 1957) is a British media executive. In January 2024 she was announced as the new Chair of PRS for Music, the United Kingdom's music copyright collective for songwriters, composers and publishers. She has previously served as Chair of the British Council and the mental health charity Mind. After graduating with a law degree, Spring joined Alpine Group as a marketing manager in 1978. In 1982, she became part of the team that launch the breakfast television station TV-am, before working in advertising management. She served as chief executive officer of ClearChannel from 1999 to 2006, and as CEO of Future plc from 2006 to 2012, becoming one of only a few women to chair a public listed company at the time. She was honoured at the 2010 Women of the Year Lunch. She was also Chair of the BBC's Children in Need. She chaired the British Council from 2019 to December 2022, and was appointed Chair of the Mind's board of trustees in 2018. Her appointment to PR ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Stevie Smith
Florence Margaret Smith (20 September 1902 – 7 March 1971), known as Stevie Smith, was an English poet and novelist. She won the Cholmondeley Award and was awarded the Queen's Gold Medal for Poetry. A play, '' Stevie'' by Hugh Whitemore, based on her life, was adapted into a film starring Glenda Jackson. Life Stevie Smith, born Florence Margaret Smith at number 34 De La Pole Avenue in Kingston upon Hull, she was the second daughter of Charles Ward Smith (1872–1949) and Ethel Rahel (1876–1919), daughter of successful maritime engineer John Spear.Smith, Florence Margaret (Stevie) (1902–1971) Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Retrieved 28 July 2023(Couzyn, Jeni 1985) ''Contemporary Women Poets''. Bloodaxe, p. 32. She was called "Peggy" within her family, but acqui ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
