Jeffrey Steele

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Jeffrey Levasseur (born August 27, 1961), also known as Jeffrey Steele, is an American country music performer and songwriter.

Steele has written more than 60 hit songs for such musicians as Montgomery Gentry, Tim McGraw, Faith Hill, LeAnn Rimes, Rascal Flatts, Billy Ray Cyrus, and others, in addition to recording his own work. Steele, the lead singer and bass guitarist in the country music band Boy Howdy, released two albums and an EP on Curb Records, in addition to charting seven singles on the Billboard country music charts.

Steele embarked on a solo career after Boy Howdy disbanded, releasing seven studio albums (one of which was not released).

He also charted four singles as a solo artist, with the highest-peaking ("Somethin' in the Water") reaching No. 1. In 2001, there were 33 on the country charts.

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Solo career and success as songwriter

In 1994, the Steele re-located to Nashville, Tennessee, two years before Boy Howdy disbanded. In 1996, he released three solo singles as well as a self-titled solo album that was never released. Steele was eventually signed to a songwriting contract, but he began writing singles for other artists. "If You Love Somebody" by Kevin Sharp, "Unbelievable" by Diamond Rio, and LeAnn Rimes' "Big Deal," both of which earned him additional BMI awards, were among his first hits as a songwriter. Sharp's first two albums featured him as a backing vocalist.

Steele signed his second solo recording deal in 2001, this time with Monument Records. Somethin' in the Water, his solo debut album, was released later this year. Steele wrote or co-wrote every song on it, rather than recording it. The album's title cut reached a high of No. 105. On the Hot Country Singles & Tracks chart, 33, becoming Steele's first Top 40 hit as a solo artist.

In the meantime, he continued to write songs for other artists, with Faith Hill, Tim McGraw, Trace Adkins, and Montgomery Gentry all recording songs he had co-written. In 2002, Steele released his first Number One hit "The Cowboy in Me" by Tim McGraw. In addition, Rascal Flatts' debut with "These Days," their first Top-One single, to date. Steele also continued to record studio albums while writing hits for other artists; his songs Gold, Platinum, Chrome, and Steele, as well as You Gotta Start Somewhere, were released in 2003, the same year that both BMI and the Nashville Songwriters Association International announced him as Songwriter of the Year (NSAI). On the Lofton Creek Records label, his fourth studio album, Outlaw, was released in 2004. More than 60% of his songs had become top-charts for other artists by 2005; the NSAI gave him his second Songwriter of the Year award.

"What Hurts the Most" is his most popular song as a songwriter, co-written with English singer Steve Robson. Both the Hot Country Songs and Hot Adult Contemporary Tracks charts for Rascal Flatts were top-one hits in 2006 and 2007, as well as a chart single for Cascada in 2007. Steve Holy's "Brand New Girlfriend," his second BMI award in 2006, as well as the Rascal Flatts' "My Wish" as Steele announced his album Hell on Wheels. "What Hurts the Most" will earn him the BMI and Song of the Year awards, as well as the Year-Of the Year award from MusicRow magazine. Steele has since released two other albums, including his second best hits album "Gold, Platinum, No Chrome, and More Steele," which was released in 2007 and his country classics tribute album "Countrypolitan" which was first released in 2008. Keith Anderson's two studio albums include: 2005's Three Chord Country and American Rock & Roll, 2008's C'mon!, and Montgomery Gentry's 2006 album "You Do Your Thing" Steele co-wrote with Anthony Smith.

Jewel and John Rich of Big & Rich were among the judges on the talent show Nashville Star in April 2008. For the weeks of September 13–14, 2008 and October 3–4, 2009, the Steele has also hosted Bob Kingsley's Country Top 40, a weekly radio countdown show based on the Mediabase country charts:

Steele was named as a Poet & Prophet in the Hall of Fame's quarterly collection in September 2008.

He was nominated for Best Country Instrumental Achievement at the Grammy Awards in 1996.

He was nominated for Best Country Song at the Grammy Awards in 2006.

He was nominated for Best Country Song at the Grammy Awards in 2014.

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Steele also co-wrote the song "I Thought I Lost You" with Miley Cyrus for the 2008 Disney animated film Bolt, which Cyrus performs as a duet with John Travolta.

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