Seasick Steve

Seasick Steve is the rare artist whose biography is as moving as his music. An Oakland man who spent decades doing casual work, playing bass in obscure bands, and engineering other people's records before finally blooming as a bluesman late in life, he is living proof that authenticity outlasts timing. I love that he plays battered, homemade-looking guitars and sings about the lean years he actually lived. There is no posturing in it, just hard-earned truth set to a slide. I have a deep, almost helpless affection for weathered performers like him who arrive late but arrive real.

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Name (English)

Seasick Steve

Name (Japanese)

シーシック・スティーブ

Reading

しーしっく・すてぃーぶ

Born

1951

Origin

Oakland, California, United States

Occupation

guitarist / street artist / banjoist / singer / composer

Zodiac / Chinese zodiac

Rabbit

• Official sitehttps://seasicksteve.com
• Xhttps://x.com/SeasickSteve
• Wikipedia (English)https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seasick%20Steve
• Wikidatahttps://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q460682

Tags

• California
• guitarist
• street artist
• banjoist

Last updated

October 19, 2026

Only publicly available facts are listed; non-public or unconfirmed items are omitted. Base data was compiled from Wikidata from June 2026 onward; ages are recalculated daily and deaths are checked against Wikidata on an ongoing basis. English text is machine-assisted (facts translated by Sonnet, "My Take" written by Opus 4.8). The Japanese page is the source of record.