Steven Van Zandt's distinguished career in the music business spans twenty-five years, as an acclaimed record producer (for artists like Bruce Springsteen, Southside Johnny and the Asbury Jukes, Artists United Against Apartheid, Darlene Love, Lone Justice, Gary U.S. Bonds, Michael Monroe, Lords of the New Church, the Arc Angels), as a songwriter (for artists including Jimmy Cliff, Southside Johnny, Gary U.S. Bonds, Brian Setzer, Darlene Love), and as a musician (Little Steven and the Disciples of Soul, Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band, Southside Johnny and the Asbury Jukes). In his early years as a musician, arranger and producer he helped to craft what is now known as the Asbury Park Sound: horn-driven hard driving soul music, forever legitimizing the genre of "bar band music." After leaving the E Street Band in 1984, he released four albums, touring internationally with his own band. He has worked to further human rights since the early 1980's, spearheading the hugely successful anti-apartheid "Sun City" project, and establishing the Solidarity Foundation in 1985 to support the sovereignty of indigenous peoples. He has been honored twice by the United Nations for his human rights achievements, and received the International Documentary Association Award for his film "The Making of Sun City." His production of "Hearts of Stone" by Southside Johnny and the Asbury Jukes was named in 1990 by Rolling Stone Magazine as one of the top 100 albums of the past twenty years, and the "Sun City" album was named by Rolling Stone as one of the best 100 albums of the 1980's. January 1999 found Steven Van Zandt recreating himself once again in a completely new incarnation: acting. He plays Silvio Dante in HBO's new, critically acclaimed dramatic series, "The Sopranos," about a present-day New Jersey Mafia family. April 2002 Little Steven joined the Hard Rock Cafe family as he launches “Hard Rock Cafe Presents Little Steven’s Underground Garage!” (Official Bio courtesy www.littlestevensundergroundgarage.com/)