Van Zandt oft goes per stage list Little Steven or even Miami Steve, & is an accomplished songwriter, arranger, and producer, notably for Southside Johnny and the Asbury Jukes.

He left a E Street Band around 1984 (Springsteen's song "Bobby Jean" partly describes this split) & has been included within many solo musical projects & collaborations since so, ranging from either soul music to hard rock, sometimes fronting the class action called A Adherent of Soul.

Universally active inside political induces, within 1985 he created the music-industry activist class action Artists United Against Apartheid as an action against the Sun City resort in South Africa. Forty-nine top recording creative person, including Springsteen, Bono, Bob Dylan and Run DMC, collaborated on the song known as "Sun City" where it pledged it would never perform at a resort.

Van Zandt returned to the E Street Band after it was reformed (briefly within 1995, permanently around 1999) and remains by using it.

Around 1999 he took one of the core acting roles in The Sopranos, swimming level-sound however fatal mob consigliere & strip club creator Silvio Dante. He has been acclaimed for his performance, although his appearances in the indicate's 2nd year were limited somewhat by conflicts sustaining a E Street Band tour schedule.

Starting within 2002 he hosts ''Little Steven's Underground Garage, the syndicated radio indicate that celebrates garage rock and similar rock sub-genres.

Van Zandt maintains the certain look, universally wearing gypsy clothes and the bandana on stage, while donning the noticeable hairpiece on The Sopranos''. Two come to handle lasting loss of hair from either a car accident in which he hit the windscreen by owning his head. [http://www.dailycelebrations.com/050201.htm] [also NPR interview]

Among E Street Band members he gets a 2nd-virtually all total of "face time" together fallowing Clarence Clemons, frequently mugging for the audience & every now and again redeeming his gauche, rhinal backing vocals jointly into Springsteen's mike. He is virtually all conspicuously featured on the songs "Two Hearts", "Land of Hope and Dreams", "Badlands", & "Murder Incorporated".

Discography
1982 Men Without Women 1984 Voice of America 1987 Freedom - No Compromise 1989 Revolution 1999 Born Again Savage 1999 Greatest Hits