biography

Modern Groove Assembly is the production name for producer, songwriter, and keyboardist Steve Catanzaro. A musical schizophrenic since conservatory days, he studied for a Masters degree in classical piano by day, and haunted the LA underground jazz and soul scene with by night, with running buddy and roomate Macy Gray.

After a tour in the academic world as a college lecturer, a stint in the corporate world as the vice president of the legendary Rhodes company, and entrepreneurship as founder of a large elementary after-school music education program, he now concentrates on music production as MGA.

Important collaborators include the vocalist Sy Smith; (the two co-wrote Smith’s current hit “Art of You” – with a video in rotation on VH1-Soul, MTV and Centric for most of 2010.) Other collaborators include Cherie Mathieson, legendary LA jazzmen Oscar Brashear and Louis V Taylor, Quetzal Guerrero, and the very fresh vocalist Kes, featured here on “The Third Sign.”