Steve Williams is probably one of the most random people you’ll ever encounter. He may be a drummer from San Diego that started a talent booking agency, but he’s had a pretty wild, almost far fetched ride since founding the company in 2000.

Steve started gigging at the age of 15 with three friends from high school. By the time they were 18 they were playing a bunch of jazz and cover band gigs all over San Diego. During this time Steve met a lot of other local musicians that not only mentored him, but also began working with him when he started the booking agency. By 2004 at the age of 22, Steve was booking and playing at a majority of the venues around downtown San Diego. For years he was gigging an average of 6 time per week, in addition to booking bands everyday, so he decided he wanted to diversify things in his life a bit more by finding different creative industries to work within, while still maintaining a lighter gig schedule and bookings.

In 2007, Steve ventured down to South America and befriended an extremely talented group of people in Buenos Aires that were working in animation. 3dar, the animation studio in Argentina, has since grown to become one of the top VR studios in the world. Since first meeting 3dar and to this day, Steve has been doing business development for them and many of his clients have been crossover clients from booking music for corporate events.

After a misadventure in 2010, involving a Nissan Pathfinder and a tree, Steve was unable to gig for a bit due to some serious injuries. During this time he decided to pursue another creative outlet . . . photography. He moved to LA to work with a production company and during that time had the opportunity to photograph and film bands at Lollapalooza and Austin City Limits.

In early 2017, Steve decided to do something pretty far outside of the creative realm and volunteered to work with a nonprofit in South Africa called Rhino 911 which focuses on anti-poaching and wildlife conservation. Between flying in helicopters and riding with park rangers out in the wild in Africa, Steve was still managing band bookings back in the States. You can see some of the beauty and the tragedy of that adventure here.

Since 2021, Steve has found himself jumping between San Diego and the Austin area where he lives on and manages a 1,575 acre ranch. It has nothing to do with music and he has no idea how he ended up there. He currently splits his time 50/50 between the two locations and tries to fill any dead space with more adventure. As of today, Steve has lived on 5 continents and has amassed a ridiculous amount of unbelievable stories, experiences, and friends around the globe. If you ever need anything music related, or anything related, Steve is the guy, the very guy that everyone talks about when they say “I know a guy.”

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