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Steve Thomas Lacy-Moya (born May 23, 1998) is a singer, musician, songwriter, and record producer from the United States. He rose to prominence as the guitarist for the alternative R&B band the Internet. Steve Lacy’s Demo, his self-produced debut EP, was released in 2017.
Following this, Lacy was featured alongside Frank Ocean on Tyler, the Creator’s song “911 / Mr. Lonely,” and co-wrote songs for singers such as Solange Knowles Chloe x Halle, and Kendrick Lamar, with whom he collaborated on the song “Pride.”
At the 62nd Annual Grammy Awards, his debut studio album, Apollo XXI (2019), garnered him a nomination for Best Urban Contemporary Album. That same year, he was featured on Vampire Weekend’s track “Sunflower.” He then teamed with Calvin Harris (as Love Regenerator) on the song “Live Without Your Love,” which charted in the United Kingdom.
Steve Lacy Early Life
Steve Lacy was born in Compton, California on May 23, 1998. Valerie, his mother, is African-American, while his father is Filipino. His father was mostly absent from his youth, only showing up on special occasions; he died when Lacy was ten years old.
Lacy attended a private school for most of his youth and has stated that he grew up secluded as a result of his mother’s desire to protect him and his sisters from the surroundings in Compton at the time.
Steve Lacy Career
Lacy first became interested in the guitar when she was seven years old, thanks to the video game Guitar Hero, but she soon wanted to learn how to play an actual guitar. While in the jazz band at Washington Preparatory High School, he met fellow Internet band member Jameel Bruner.
Lacy began producing by composing beats on his iPhone and writing his first songs on the device, utilizing an iRig plug-in for his guitar. In 2013, he started working on Ego Death, the Internet’s third studio album. Ego Death was nominated for Best Urban Contemporary Album at the 58th Annual Grammy Awards after contributing to the production of eight tracks.
After it was revealed that the Internet members would release solo albums, Lacy appears on Matt Martians’ The Drum Chord Theory and Syd’s Fin. He also started producing songs for Twenty88, Denzel Curry, Isaiah Rashad, J. Cole, GoldLink, and Kendrick Lamar, creating “Pride” on Kendrick’s Grammy Award-winning album Damn and garnering two features on Vampire Weekend’s 2019 album Father of the Bride.
Steve Lacy’s Demo was released on February 17, 2017, with Lacy having created the majority of the song series on his iPhone, composing the guitar and bass arrangements and speaking his vocals directly into its built-in microphone. He also used Ableton to program the drum beats.
In 2017, he co-wrote and produced the whole EP Crush by Ravyn Lenae, which was released in February 2018. After releasing solo projects in 2017, he and his Internet comrades began work on their 2018 follow-up, Hive Mind, which was released in July of that year.
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