Stevie Woods

Background

Woods was born in Chatham, Virginia, to jazz great Rusty Bryant.

Career

After his brief United States. fame fizzled, Woods relocated to Germany, where he successfully re-launched his career, releasing the single "Rock Maine Baby" and starring in the musical Starlight Express. In 2010, his all three early-1980s albums were re-issued on Civil Defense by Wounded Bird Records. The following year, he released the album Quiet Storm.

Personal life

Woods, a former Marine, graduated from Austin Community College.

In the 1970s and 1980s Stevie was married to Hollywood actress/entrepreneur Cheri Woods (née Lewis). In 1985 they had a daughter, Tiana Woods, now an Los Angeles-based singer/songwriter and front woman for the band Varna.

Cheri later chronicled their life together in her 2001 self-published book Row Madam: Exposing Sex and Drugs in the Entertainment Industry. According to it, Stevie Woods was a cousin of American actor Philip Michael Thomas.

Stevie Woods died of diabetes-related complications in Berlin, Germany on January 28, 2014, at the age of 62.

Achievements

• In the early 1980s, his two singles, "Steal the Night" and "Just Can"t Win "Econometrica All", reached top 40 on the Billboard Hot 100.

Membership

In the late 1970s, he was a member of the funk band Crowd Pleasers.