Stevie Appleton

This article is about the British musician. For the American businessman, see Steve Appleton.
Stevie Appleton
Birth name Stephen Appleton
Born (1989-05-01) 1 May 1989
Surrey, England
Occupation(s) Singer, songwriter, record producer
Years active 2008–present
Labels Sony Music
Website stevieappleton.com

Stevie Appleton (born 1 May 1989, Surrey, England) is a British singer, songwriter and record producer.[1]

At the age of fifteen, he began playing piano in a Soho restaurant performing his own material and covers from the likes of Elton John and Billy Joel. He was signed to RCA in mid-2007, after which he went travelling across Europe with friends before finishing his debut album. In 2007 Stevie signed his management to John Black at Black Gold Management.

Since then Appleton has furthered his travels with publicity shoots in Miami and Los Angeles, and a trip to Cape Town where the video for "Dirty Funk" was filmed with director Robert Hales. During 2009 he performed alongside John Legend, The Saturdays and The Pussycat Dolls, along with headlining his own gigs up throughout the UK.

Appleton was the face of a Smart (automobile) campaign during 2009/2010. He appeared in a TV commercial performing his single "Dirty Funk". The advertisement was shown in Germany, The Netherlands, Italy and Japan. He is sponsored by Puma AG, X-Mini and Freshman Guitars.

The opening to Appleton's "Dirty Funk" was also used by the British telephone provider BT in their 2010 'Summer Deals' advertising campaign.

Appleton's debut single "Dirty Funk", written when Appleton was only 16, was released on 17 April 2009. In Japan it was number 1 on the airplay charts for 6 weeks, making it the biggest radio song in Japan during the summer of 2009.[2] A second single, "City Won't Sleep" was released in August 2009 in both the UK and Japan.[3] His first album, When the Sun Comes Up was written and produced by Appleton, performing every instrument on the album. It was released on 31 July 2009 in Japan, and on 31 August 2009 in the UK.

In June and July 2009, Appleton was the opening act on the UK dates of Anastacia's Heavy Rotation Tour.

In August 2010, Appleton sang the theme song, "Everyone", at the opening of the 2010 Summer Youth Olympics in Singapore televised to an estimated 1.5 billion people, where he represented Europe alongside South African Jody Williams (Africa), Singaporean Tabitha Nauser (Asia) and Australian Jessica Mauboy (Oceania). American Sean Kingston (Americas) who was due as well did not perform due to a passport mix-up during immigration.[4] The song was written and produced by Ken Lim, a judge on Asian Idol as well as Singapore Idol and charted at No. 1 in Singapore for two weeks.

In March 2014 Stevie signed to Cooking Vinyl Publishing.

Attended St Georges College in Weybridge.

Discography

As a main artist

Title Year Peak chart positions Album
UK JPN GER
"Dirty Funk" 2009 67 2 71 When the Sun Comes Up
"City Won't Sleep" — — —
"Everyone"
(with Jody Williams, Sean Kingston, Tabitha Nauser and Jessica Mauboy)		 2010 — — — Non-album single
"Sparks" 2011 — 21 — Colours

Albums

References

  1. ↑ Lester, Paul (4 March 2009). "New band of the day – No 498: Steve Appleton | Music | guardian.co.uk". The Guardian (London). Retrieved 12 March 2010.
  2. ↑ "Steve Appleton". Chart Stats. 16 May 2009. Archived from the original on 19 January 2013. Retrieved 31 December 2011.
  3. ↑ "Steve Appleton | Facebook". Steveappletonmusic.com. Retrieved 31 December 2011.
  4. ↑ "No Kingston at YOG due to passport mix-up". News.asiaone.com. 16 August 2010. Retrieved 31 December 2011.

External links

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