Curtis Stigers drives his publicists crazy.
For the past 30 years, the singer, songwriter, saxophonist and guitarist has been making
records that confound those who try to categorize his music or put him in a box.
Curtis Stigers has had several top ten hits as a long-haired, blue-eyed soul singer and he’s
written and sung an Emmy nominated TV theme song. He’s recorded a track for one of the
biggest-selling pop albums of all time and he’s released nine critically-acclaimed, award-winning
jazz albums. He’s played for presidents and princes and he’s appeared in two Seth MacFarlane...
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Curtis Stigers drives his publicists crazy.
For the past 30 years, the singer, songwriter, saxophonist and guitarist has been making
records that confound those who try to categorize his music or put him in a box.
Curtis Stigers has had several top ten hits as a long-haired, blue-eyed soul singer and he’s
written and sung an Emmy nominated TV theme song. He’s recorded a track for one of the
biggest-selling pop albums of all time and he’s released nine critically-acclaimed, award-winning
jazz albums. He’s played for presidents and princes and he’s appeared in two Seth MacFarlane
movies about a foul-mouthed cuddly bear called Ted. He’s recorded thirteen studio albums and
a live album singing Sinatra songs with a big band from Denmark. He’s toured with symphony
orchestras, written songs with Carole King and duetted with Al Green, Shawn Colvin and Tom
Jones.
Who is this guy?
Stigers' success as a songwriter has included co-writing with the likes of legends like Carole
King, Barry Mann and Beth Nielsen Chapman, and his songwriting talent also led to an Emmy
nomination for co-writing and singing the theme song to the wildly successful TV series Sons Of
Anarchy.
It is his rich singing voice, however—singular, balletic, and at turns both mournful and
playful—that has landed him on records with the likes of Al Green, Shawn Colvin and Jackson
Browne, in studios with venerated producers like Larry Klein, Danny Kortchmar, and Glen
Ballard, and on stages and concert bills with pop and rock legends, including Eric Clapton, Elton
John, Bonnie Raitt, Prince, Rod Stewart and The Allman Brothers Band, as well as jazz giants
Nancy Wilson, Al Jarreau, Gerry Mulligan, Randy Brecker, Michael Brecker, Chuck Mangione,
Toots Thielmans, Wynton Marsalis, Branford Marsalis, Kurt Elling, Diana Krall, John Scofield,
Larry Goldings and many more.
During the pandemic, Curtis Stigers began a weekly internet livestream show called “Songs
From My Kitchen” which he continues to present once a month with his four very cute dogs.
Born in Hollywood, raised in Boise, Idaho and transplanted to Manhattan, he now resides,
between concert appearances, back in Idaho, where he’s proud to help raise hundreds of
thousands of dollars each year for the Interfaith Sanctuary Homeless Shelter.
The latest Curtis Stigers album, This Life (February, 2022), is a self-produced look back at 30
years of songs, albums and concerts, featuring newly crafted versions of some of the biggest
and best songs from his long, successful career.
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