Steve Archer
| Steve Archer | |
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| Born |
January 5, 1953 Mojave, California, United States |
| Genres | Contemporary Christian music |
Steve Archer (born January 5, 1953) is an American singer-songwriter and producer. He is a pioneer of the genre of Jesus music, later to become known as contemporary Christian music. He is the former lead singer of The Archers, a contemporary Christian music and Jesus music band who toured and recorded throughout the decades of the 1970s, 1980s, and 1990s.
Born Steven Mark Archer in Mojave, California, US, the son of an Assemblies of God pastor, he began singing with his brother, Tim in their father's church in the northern San Joaquin Valley of California at age nine. They eventually branched out to other churches in and around the San Francisco Bay Area. Throughout the 1960s they toured with older brother, Gary, as The Archer Brothers. In 1970, Tim and Steve formed The Archers with Nancye Short and Billy Rush Masters in Southern California. They recorded and toured internationally from the 1970s through the early 1990s. Younger sister Janice replaced Short in 1977; Masters also left the band at this time. That year their album Fresh Surrender was nominated for a GMA Dove Award. They appeared at the Jimmy Carter White House in 1978 and on the Grammy Awards telecast twice, in 1981 and 1982 winning the Grammy Award for Best Gospel Performance, Contemporary or Inspirational and nominated for Best Gospel Performance respectively. The group suspended recording in 1985, and performed only on a limited schedule until 1991, when they re-entered the studio for a final project, Colors Of Your Love. They toured until 1993 when they permanently disbanded.
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