Steve Arvey is an American guitarist and singer. He works in the fields of blues, blues-rock, and rock. Arvey was born in Chicago, Illinois, and started playing music at the age of eighteen when he went to college in Gainesville, Florida. While there he became interested in the blues, and joined his first band backing Robert Hunter (which also backed Bo Diddley). On his return to Chicago Arvey worked on the local blues circuit as a sideman, before forming his own band - West Side Heat - and released his first album.
