Steve Kilbey

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Steve Kilbey
Steve Kilbey
Background information
Birth name	Steven John Kilbey
Born	13 September 1954
Origin	Welwyn Garden City, England
Genre(s)	Psychedelic rock
Occupation(s)	Singer-songwriter, bass guitarist, music producer, poet, painter
Instrument(s)	Bass guitar
Years active	1971 - present
Label(s)	Enigma, Rykodisc, Rough Trade, Vicious Slot
Associated acts	The Church Isidore

Steven John Kilbey (born 13 September 1954, Welwyn Garden City, England) is the lead singer-songwriter and bass guitarist for The Church, an Australian rock band. He is also a music producer, poet, and painter.^[1]

Kilbey began his professional music career at age 17 when he joined a "cabaret band". He then joined Precious Little, a rock band featuring future Church bandmate Peter Koppes on drums. Kilbey followed up with another band, Baby Grand, around 1978 while he lived in Canberra. Soon after, he formed The Church along with Koppes, Nick Ward, and Marty Willson-Piper.^[2] After some success in their native Australia in the early 1980s, Kilbey and The Church went on to international fame when Kilbey's song "Under the Milky Way" (from their 1988 album Starfish) became a hit.

Kilbey has released six solo music albums and collaboratively written and/or produced recordings with the late Grant McLennan (of The Go-Betweens), Stephen Cummings, and Kev Carmody. Earthed, a book of fiction, was published in 1986, in conjunction with an album of the same name of instrumental electronic music. His book of poetry, Nineveh/The Ephemeron, was released in 1998 and was later republished.

Kilbey, a vegan for over three decades, lives in Bondi, a suburb of Sydney, Australia, with his wife and three of his five children. ^[3] His brothers, Russell Kilbey and John Kilbey, have also led successful Australian bands. ^[4]

A biography of Steve Kilbey titled No Certainty Attached is due to be released in 2008 by Verse Chorus Press.^{[citation needed]}