Early years – Brothers in Rhythm

Production and songwriting

Steve Anderson has written and co-written songs and produced music for recording artists including Kylie Minogue, Britney Spears, Markus Feehily, Holly Valance, Take That, Susan Boyle and Delta Goodrem.

After completing Impossible Princess for Minogue in 1997, Anderson continued to write with Minogue for the album that became Light Years. Recalling a sense of freedom during the early period of recording in 1999, Anderson states:

The thing is, when we get together to write, we just do what we feel like. We never try to pitch at an album or sound, so often we write something we love that happily sits on a B-side, and that's fine with us. If you take something like Harmony for instance—the sun was shining at Real World and we just wanted to do something really bright, warm and summery with a lovely lyric. We knew there was no way it was going to fit on an album, but that's not a good enough reason not to write it.^[8]

Released in 2000 through Parlophone and widely seen as Minogue's comeback album, Light Years features three songs composed by Anderson ("So Now Goodbye", "Butterfly" and "Bittersweet Goodbye"). He also co-wrote "Dancefloor" and "Give It to Me" on the follow-up album Fever, which reached the number one slot in the UK, Australian, Austrian, German and Irish album charts and number 3 on the US Billboard 200.

Anderson also worked on songs for Britney Spears, including "Breathe on Me" for her 2003 album In the Zone and two unreleased songs ("State of Grace" and "Grow") originally intended for her album Blackout.

In 2003, he produced and co-wrote three songs for the Holly Valance album State of Mind, released on Warner Bros. Records. He also co-wrote and produced "Everything You Ever Wanted" for the English-Irish Pop girl group Girls Aloud's debut album Sound of the Underground.

In 2009, he produced "Talk Me Down" for the Irish boy band Westlife's Where We Are album. He also collaborated with Australian singer Natalie Bassingthwaighte on the song "Supersensual" for her number 1 selling album 1000 Stars. He co-wrote and produced the song "Entre Nous et le Sol" for French singer Christophe Willem's album Caféine, which was subsequently released as a single in 2010 with the English-language version of the album, Heartbox with the restored original title, State of Grace.

In 2010, he wrote and produced the song "I Will Reach You", which appeared as an album track on Westlife's Gravity album. In the same year he wrote the lead single to Spanish singer Edurne's album Nueva Piel, "Soy Como Soy".

In 2011, he reunited with Christophe Willem, producing his entire Prismophonic album.

In 2012, he also produced the English version of Willem's album, Love Shot Me Down. As part of Kylie Minogue's K25 celebrations, Anderson also produced The Abbey Road Sessions album, on which he co-wrote the single "Flower".

In 2013, he produced Susan Boyle's Home for Christmas album. In 2014 he produced Boyle's next album, Hope.

In 2015, he produced songs on Westlife's Markus Feehily album Fire and numerous songs for Kylie Minogue's Christmas album, Kylie Christmas.

In 2016, he wrote and produced Paola Iezzi's single "Lovenight". He also became heavily involved in the production, arrangement and release of new singer Harriet and her self-titled debut album. He also produced Boyle's Christmas album A Wonderful World, featuring covers of Madonna, Robbie Williams and ABBA songs. Anderson also produced Minogue's expanded re-release of her Christmas album, Kylie Christmas: Snow Queen Edition.

In 2018, he produced and wrote a couple of tracks on the solo debut album of Steps' singer Claire Richards. He also co-produced the debut album "Brave" by 15-year-old Beau Dermott with Cliff Masterson.

Music director – pop concert tours

Though its chart performance was somewhat lackluster, a key success of Kylie Minogue's Impossible Princess era was her live tour Intimate and Live in 1998. Performing to sell out shows in Australia and London, Minogue selected Anderson as its musical director for all corresponding concerts. This relationship continues with Anderson providing essential arrangement production work for Minogue's On a Night Like This (2001), KylieFever (2002), Money Can't Buy (2004), Showgirl: The Greatest Hits (2005), Showgirl: The Homecoming (2006–2007), KylieX2008 (2008–2009), For You, for Me (2009), Aphrodite: Les Folies (2011), Anti (2012), Kiss Me Once (2014–2015) and A Kylie Christmas (2015–2016) tours. Outside his live work for Minogue, Anderson has scored the live arrangements for tours and shows by Westlife, Delta Goodrem, Leona Lewis and most recently Lush in October 2016.^[9] He has also scored notable radio and TV shows including Live Lounge for Leona Lewis and Little Mix and An Audience with Kylie Minogue which featured a duet with Kermit the Frog.^[10]

Music supervisor – theatre

In 2007, alongside working on the Showgirl tour, Anderson and others from Kylie Minogue's creative team, including choreographer Ashley Wallen, vocal arranger Terry Ronald and creative director William Baker, opened their re-worked version of Jonathan Larson's musical Rent, Rent: Remixed at London's Duke of York's Theatre. The show starred Luke Evans, and Siobhan Donaghy as Mimi. While the show's stripped down adaptation drew criticism, Sam Marlow, theatre critic for the Times, stated:

Anderson has done a cracking job of funking up Larson's score, replacing overweening guitar rock with pumping gay club anthems and diva pop, flavoured with rippling keyboards and electronica.^[11]

The same creative team would reunite for several versions of The Hurly Burly Show, a burlesque revue playing at various West End theatres between 2010 and 2012, starring the British neo-burlesque performer Miss Polly Rae. The show was well received by theatre critics, with The Daily Telegraph's Charles Spencer giving it a four-star rating, noting the quality of the show's musical numbers, while The Guardian's Michael Billington praised its slick direction.^[12][13]

Three successful incarnations of the show led to further theatrical outings for Anderson. Collaborations to date include:

• Little Belter (London and UK Tour, 2012)^[14]
• Orchid – Where Desire Blooms (Miami, 2012)^[15]
• Some Girl I Used to Know (Leeds, London West End and UK Tour, 2014)^[16][17]
• The Supreme Fabulettes – Viva La Drag^[18] (London West End and UK Tour 2014–2015)
• Chandelier (Celebrity Cruises, 2015)
• Elyria^[19] (Celebrity Cruises, 2015).

In 2014, it was announced that Anderson was working on a new musical based on the music of Minogue.^[20] In September 2015 Minogue herself confirmed that the musical had "momentum" once again, after being "in talks".^[21] A successful trademark registration by Minogue's family company from 2012 indicates that the musical's working title is Lucky: The Kylie Minogue Musical.^[22]

Anderson is currently working on a new musical, The Most Beautiful Man In New York, with long time collaborators Ian Masterson and Terry Ronald.^[23]

With Brothers in Rhythm

As producer and songwriter (selected discography)