Background
He is best known as the youngest of the four Chapin brothers, which include Harry Chapin and Tom Chapin and is son of drummer Jim Chapin.
He is best known as the youngest of the four Chapin brothers, which include Harry Chapin and Tom Chapin and is son of drummer Jim Chapin.
He is the uncle of Jen Chapin and The Chapin Sisters. The Steve Chapin Band includes Chapin and former Harry Chapin band members "Big John" Wallace and Howard Fields. Steve and Big John have been making music together since their boy-choir days in 1955, through the doo-wop days, folk and early rock eras, and the Harry Chapin years.
lieutenant was during the mid-"70s that they teamed up with Howard to forge the musical bonds that forge the heart of their music
He is also the fifth cousin of country singer Mary Chapin Carpenter.