Stephen Jerome Ferguson was born in Washington D.C. on May 23rd and has been
involved with music since the age of 12. His interest started when he sat down
at an old Fender Rhodes Electric piano. He taught himself music scales and
basic chords. He began to learn to play along with music that was being played
in his home. Gospel music, Soul and Jazz were his first loves. He worked part
time after school to save money to purchase his first electric guitar. He
applied the lessons he learned on the keyboard and soon was able to play the
guitar portions of the same songs he learned on the keyboard. Later, he picked
up what was to become his favorite instrument, the bass guitar.
His first experience playing live music came as the bass
guitar player for the Gospel group The True Voices of Christ, a group that he
cofounded. The group played for 3 years, playing all along the east coast.
Stephen then enlisted in the US Army and was assigned to
Europe for his first tour. In Europe, he met fellow soldier/musicians Paul
Ferguson and Mike Burrell. Together, they founded the R&B/Jazz group FFB
(Ferguson, Ferguson and Burrell). The group played all over Europe for 3 years.
They played cover songs as well as their own original compositions. One of
these original songs titled “I Miss You” was featured on the Armed Forces Radio
Network.
After leaving FFB, Stephen studied music. He studied the
administrative side and stayed abreast of the new technologies that began to
develop. Using these new technologies, he released his first solo CD, “Peace of
the Heart”. Stephen dedicated this project to his mother that was taken by
cancer in 1996 and he donated the sales of this CD to cancer research. His next
releases were “Its Just Me”, “Afterglow”, “We Are One” and “Windows to the
Soul”. His 5th project titled “Between Dusk and Dawn” is his first CD under his
new production company, SJF Music. “Between Dusk and Dawn”
was also the first project in which Stephen wrote and produced music to
accompany the works of featured poets and spoken word artists. Stephen’s 6th
project, “Player’s Ball” was released in July 2012.
Stephen founded SJF Music in July of 2011 and is dedicated
to producing music for independent artists. SJF Music has a very simple goal: producing
music that listeners will be proud to own and to share.
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