Biography

Stevie Salas is a Canadian-American guitar player, writer, producer, and composer who has recorded on over 70 albums with artists as diverse as George Clinton, Justin Timberlake, Buddy Miles, T.I., Mick Jagger, and Rod Stewart. Having sold over two million solo albums around the world. Stevie has been cited as one of the top 50 guitarists of all time. From 2006 to 2010, Salas served as music director and consultant for American Idol and 19 Entertainment, nurturing Kris Allen, Adam Lambert, Chris Daughtry, and their respective touring bands for subsequent American tours. Stevie has also released albums with J-Pop megastar Koshi Inaba under the name “Inaba/Salas.” Their album topped the Japanese Album charts and led to a sold-out tour throughout Japan. An accomplished composer, Stevie is also credited with providing the score for several films including Bill and Ted’s Excellent Adventure and the 2009 film Darfur. Over 50 of Stevie’s compositions have been released on major labels. As a film producer, his film “Rumble: Indians Who Rocked the World” rocked the Sundance Film Festival, receiving a prestigious Special Jury Award for World Cinema Documentary. Stevie Salar also wrote the Amazon #1 best-selling book, When We Were the Boys, a memoir about Stevie’s first tour with Rod Stewart. The book met with outstanding reviews and was #1 for 8 weeks on Amazon’s book chart. As Apache, Stevie has been involved in prominent projects that support Indigenous communities, including serving as the Advisor of Contemporary Music at the Smithsonian National Museum of the American Indian. For his efforts in support of Native American culture, Stevie received the Native American Lifetime Achievement Award in 2009.

To learn more, check out his website at https://www.steviesalas.com/