Steve Vai

Steve Vai

Steve Vai (born 1960), the musician

Legal name

"Steven Siro Vai", "Steven Syro Vai"

Albums

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Passion and Warfare; Flex-Able; Sex & Religion; Alien Love Secrets; Fire Garden;  …

The Ultra Zone; The Seventh Song; The Infinite Steve Vai: An Anthology; Flex-Able Leftovers; Alive in an Ultra World; The Elusive Light and Sound, Vol. 1; Real Illusions: Reflections; G3: Rockin' in the Free World; G3: Live in Tokyo; G3: Live in Concert; G3: Live in Denver; Video Games Live, Vol.1; Alive in an Ultra World; Archives, Volume 4; Archives, Volume 2; Sex & Religion; Live at the Astoria London; The Infinite Steve Vai; Archives, Volume 3; Sound Theories, Volume 1; Sound Theories, Volume 2; Where the Wild Things Are

Genre

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Heavy Metal, neo-classical metal, experimental rock, Progressive Metal, Jazz fusion,  …

progressive rock, Instrumental rock

Record label

Epic, Favored Nations, Favored Nations, Relativity Records

Born

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June 1960; 1960; June 6th 1960; the United States; New York state;  …

North America; the world; the Americas; the Northern Hemisphere; Nassau County, NY; the Tri-State Region; Carle Place, New York; the area using the NANP; the US dollar zone; the continental United States; the contiguous United States; the EST/EDT region; the G8; North America

Starred in

Rock Prophecies

Website

http://www.vai.com/, http://www.vai.com

Wrote

For the Love of God, The Attitude Song

Active

1980 onwards

Full name

"Steven Syro Vai", "Steven Siro Vai"

Producer of

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Passion and Warfare; Alien Love Secrets; G3: Live in Tokyo; Sex & Religion; Flex-Able;  …

Skyscraper; Fire Garden; Real Illusions: Reflections; The Ultra Zone; The Seventh Song; Crazy; Refugee; The Elusive Light and Sound, Vol. 1; Just Like Paradise; Flex-Able Leftovers; G3: Live in Denver

Composer on, Composer for

Crossroads, PCU

Occupation

guitarist

Wikipedia Page

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steve_Vai

Plays

guitar, keyboard instrument, seven-string guitar, Ibanez JEM, Ibanez Universe

Spouse

Pia Vai

Owner of

Favored Nations

Gender

male

Nationality

american

Educated

Berklee College of Music

Last Name

"Vai"

First Name

"Steven", "Steve"

Founded

Favored Nations

Organisations

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Uriah Duffy, Whitesnake, Alcatrazz, The G3 Jam, G3,  …

Western Vacation

Children, Sons

Dweezil Zappa

Employees

Yngwie J. Malmsteen

Main Occupation

musician

Class

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guitarist; musician; singer; person; film producer;  …

artist; record producer; Gemini person; human being, organisation or other legal person; vegetarian; musical act; band member; person that is the musical composer for a film; company founder; award winner; person that was nominated for an award, honour or prize

Composed

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Two Fools a Minute, Two Fools a Minute, Hina, Hina, Hot Dog and a Shake,  …

Hot Dog and a Shake, Damn Good, Damn Good, Skyscraper, Skyscraper, The Bottom Line, The Bottom Line

Performed

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Gone; Gone; Queen of the Night; Queen of the Night; Feed My Frankenstein;  …

Feed My Frankenstein; Autumn in Nepal; Autumn in Nepal; There's Still Hope; There's Still Hope; Bold As Love; Bold As Love; Drifting; Drifting; Noah's Ark; Noah's Ark; Western Vacation; Western Vacation; Home; Home; Ease; Ease; The Rumble; The Rumble; Sweet Lady Luck; Sweet Lady Luck; The 2003 release of 'Archives, Volume 4: Various Artists'; Archives, Volume 4: Various Artists; Now We Run; Now We Run; See Ya Next Year; See Ya Next Year; Initiation; Initiation; We're Not Gonna Protest; We're Not Gonna Protest; Beer Beer; Beer Beer; How Hidge; How Hidge; Don't Sweat It; Don't Sweat It; Loose Keg Sightings; Loose Keg Sightings; Plug My Ass In; Plug My Ass In; Pins and Needles; Pins and Needles; Blow Me Where the Pampers Is; Blow Me Where the Pampers Is; Dead Heads; Dead Heads; Still Running; Still Running; What!; What!; Hey Jack; Hey Jack; Now We Run (cue); Now We Run (cue); The Ax Will Fall; The Ax Will Fall; Find the Meat; Find the Meat; The Cause Heads; The Cause Heads; The Dead Band Ends; The Dead Band Ends; The Dark Hallway; The Dark Hallway; Welcome Pre-Frosh; Welcome Pre-Frosh; Get the Hell Out of Here; Get the Hell Out of Here; Drive the Hell Out of Here; Drive the Hell Out of Here; The Reaper Rap; The Reaper Rap; Final Guitar Solo; Final Guitar Solo; Meet the Reaper; Meet the Reaper; The Battle; The Battle; Girls Mature Faster Than Guys; Girls Mature Faster Than Guys; Introducing the Wylde Stallions; Introducing the Wylde Stallions; The Reaper; The Reaper; Air Guitar Hell; Air Guitar Hell; Louisiana Swamp Skank; Louisiana Swamp Skank; Amazing Grace; Amazing Grace; Eugene's Trick Bag; Eugene's Trick Bag; Head-Cuttin' Duel; Head-Cuttin' Duel; Butler's Bag; Butler's Bag; Fried Chicken; Fried Chicken; Love Blood; Love Blood; Celluloid Heroes; Celluloid Heroes; The 2002 release of 'The Elusive Light and Sound, Volume 1'; The Elusive Light and Sound, Volume 1; The Attitude Song; The Attitude Song; Liberty; Liberty; Jibboom; Jibboom; Little Wing; Little Wing; Fire; Fire; Down Deep Into the Pain; Down Deep Into the Pain; Bad Horsie; Bad Horsie; The Animal; The Animal; Blue Powder; Blue Powder; The Crying Machine; The Crying Machine; Erotic Nightmares; Erotic Nightmares; Shy Boy; Shy Boy; The 2004 release of 'Live in London'; Live in London; Boston Rain Melody; Boston Rain Melody; Wall of Light; Wall of Light; Christmas Time Is Here; Christmas Time Is Here; Call It Sleep; Call It Sleep; Melissa's Garden; Melissa's Garden; Hand on Heart; Hand on Heart; Tender Surrender; Tender Surrender; Burnin' Down the Mountain; Burnin' Down the Mountain; Windows to the Soul; Windows to the Soul; Touching Tongues; Touching Tongues; For the Love of God; For the Love of God; For the Love God; For the Love God

Born During

January 1st 1960, 00:00 - December 31st 1969, 23:59

Attributes

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Heavy Metal, male, progressive rock, hard rock, Progressive Metal,  …

Jazz fusion, neo-classical metal, experimental rock, Instrumental rock, vegetarian

Wife

Pia Maiocco

Open Calais URI

http://d.opencalais.com/er/company/ralg-tr1r/e9dc9772-d022-348e-9bb4-3b186ccdc3c3

Freebase ID

"/guid/9202a8c04000641f800000000019f33f"

Related Websites

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http://www.allmusic.com; http://www.ex.ua/view/2951403; http://www.billboard.com/bbcom/discography/more.jsp?tp=albums&pid=5941&aid=1152954#artAlbumMoreContainer; http://www.guitarjamdaily.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=594&Itemid=46; http://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=11:kifexqr5ldde~T1;  …

http://www.vai.com; http://www.discogs.com/artist/Steve+Vai; http://musicmoz.org/Bands_and_Artists/V/Vai,_Steve/

Influences

Frank Zappa

Preferred Instrument

Ibanez, Ibanez JEM, Ibanez Universe

DBPedia URI

http://dbpedia.org/resource/Steve_Vai

Rare Terms

"vai steve"; "vai, steve"; "steve vai touring band"; "joss ward"

Middle-name

"Siro"

Birthday

the 6th of June

Quotes

"A lot of those little things that I really like doing are just moments of cool articulation, just little moments of phrasing that probably go over everybody's head."

Freebase Primary MID

"/m/01mxt_"

Musicbrainz Guid

"5e7ccd92-6277-451a-aab9-1efd587c50f3"

Discogs page

http://www.discogs.com/artist/Steve Vai

Musicmoz page

http://musicmoz.org/Bands_and_Artists/V/Vai,_Steve/