Ken Steorts

Dr. Ken Steorts (pronounced 'storts') is the founder and president of Visible Music College in Memphis, Tennessee and founding guitarist of the Grammy-nominated band Skillet. Visible Music College is an accredited, bachelor-degree-granting institution of higher education in music, music production, and music business. He is president of Madison Line Records, a non-profit artist development and music production company and a BMI songwriter/guitarist/band leader in his band "the beep." Steorts is a church music leader and active in the music community of Memphis.

Steorts was born at Travis Air Force Base in Fairfield, California to Lt. Colonel Robert Allen Steorts of Hartland, West Virginia and Georgia Sue Jackson of Pascagoula, MS. Steorts now lives in Chesapeake, Virginia, and Steorts' mother in Shreveport, Louisiana. As the child of an Air Force Lieutenant Colonel, Steorts spent his childhood and teen years in many different locations, moving eight times between 1966 and 1984 when he relocated to his current home of Memphis, Tennessee.

Steorts' entry into music began in his elementary years with songwriting and trumpet compositions, and at sixteen he picked up the guitar. During his teen years at Airline High School in Bossier City, Louisiana, he played trumpet in band and guitar in jazz band, as well as with local bands and artists, including Limit (Gautier, Mississippi) and Steve Higgs (Bossier City, Louisiana). After high school, he went on to study classical guitar at Rhodes College in Memphis from 1984-1985. After Rhodes, Steorts studied Music production at Memphis State (now University of Memphis) from 1985-1988, and finished at University of Memphis in 1993 with a master's degree in composition and a BFA in commercial music-recording technology. In 2014, he received his Doctorate in Sociological Research from Oxford Graduate School in Dayton, Tennessee.

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