Steven Elwell

Steven K Elwell was born in Miami, Florida, where he resided for 38 years until 2001 when he gave up the warm weather of Florida and moved to Detroit, Michigan. Steve attended Southwest Miami Senior High School and Miami-Dade Community College. His first work experience was that of a certified aircraft mechanic and auto mechanic. In the late 1980s he switched professions to a career in software development. While not his primary career Steve has worked professionally as a musician since his high school days performing on saxophone and flute in jazz big bands and salsa Latin bands. He primarily performed with the Dick Cully Jazz Band in Boca Raton, and Orchestra Casablanca and Lefty Perez in Miami. Steve feels very fortunate to have worked with many of the talented musicians from orchestras such as Count Basie, Buddy Rich, Stan Kenton, Maynard Ferguson and the University of Miami School of Jazz. Throughout the years Steve has performed machinist and mechanic duties on several SCCA and NHRA racecars preferring to keep his feet on the ground and not on the pedals. In 1987 Steve was offered the chance to perform `Auld Lang Syne' on his baritone sax in the movie comedy Happy New Year (1987) starring Peter Falk and Charles Durning. While he enjoyed the experience of performing on camera and having his sounds used as background music in portions of the movie he chose not to pursue further onscreen work. Steve currently resides in the Detroit, Michigan area where he develops software using the languages of C#, C/C++ and Pascal. He is currently single and has no children.