Born and raised in Queens, singer-songwriter Stephen Stavola is a native New York City artist whose songs often reference the city that has been his home all of his life. He studied piano from the age of seven, fell in love with the music of Brian Wilson by the age of twelve, and wrote his songs on the family upright at the age of fifteen. Since then, he has written hundreds of songs and performed throughout the New York City area, with the piano principally as his band. His songs have a folk-rock sensibility that can evoke thoughts of artists like Paul Simon and Jackson Browne. Many songs also reveal an affection for the great songwriters of the thirties and forties with their beautiful harmonic arrangements and their well-crafted lyrics. With a gift for melody and powerful, intelligent and heartfelt lyrics, he writes songs that have a transcendent quality that defies reductionist categorization. He presently plays throughout the New York City area, and his musical home is Greenwich Village.