Steve Archer (Paperback)

High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles Steve Archer (born January 5, 1953) is an American singer-songwriter and producer. He is a pioneer of the genre of Jesus music, later to become known as contemporary Christian music. He is the former lead singer of The Archers, a contemporary Christian music and Jesus music band who toured and recorded throughout the decades of the 1970s, 1980s, and 1990s. Born Steven Mark Archer in Mojave, California, USA, the son of an Assemblies of God pastor, he began singing with his brother, Tim in their father's church in the northern San Joaquin Valley of California at age nine. They eventually branched out to other churches in and around the San Francisco Bay Area. Throughout the 1960s they toured with older brother, Gary, as The Archer Brothers. In 1970, Tim and Steve formed The Archers with Nancye Short and Billy Rush Masters in Southern California. They recorded and toured internationally from the 1970s through the early 1990s. Sister, Janice replaced Short and Masters in 1977. That year their album Fresh Surrender was nominated for a GMA Dove Award.