Steven Van Zandt
Steven Van Zandt born on November 22, 1950.he is an American musician, songwriter, arranger, record producer, actor, and radio disc jockey, who frequently goes by the stage names Little Steven or Miami Steve. He is best known as a member of Bruce Springsteen’s E Street Band, in which he plays guitar and mandolin, and as an actor in the television drama The Sopranos, in which he played Silvio Dante.
Actor/playwright/producer Billy Van Zandt is Steven Van Zandt’s half brother. 
Van Zandt returned to the E Street Band when it was reformed (briefly in 1995, and on an ongoing occasional basis in 1999) and remains with it. By now, his guitar playing had mostly been reduced to a background rhythm role, due to Nils Lofgren also being in the band and to Springsteen taking many more of the solos. Notwithstanding this, among E Street Band members he often gets the second-most amount of “face time” in concert after Clarence Clemons, frequently mugging for the audience and sometimes delivering his unpolished, nasal backing vocals while sharing a microphone with Springsteen. His playing or singing is most prominently featured on the songs “Glory Days”, “Two Hearts”, “Long Walk Home” (when featured a Van Zandt outro vocal solo) “Land of Hope and Dreams”, “Badlands”, “Ramrod”, and “Murder Incorporated”, among others like the live versions of “Rosalita”. He often trades vocals with Springsteen in live versions of “Prove it All Night”. He features prominently in the video for “Glory Days”, sharing the spotlight with Springsteen during the choruses, and swapping lines with him during the (non)fade, and in live versions he does the same. During the E Street Band’s performance at the Super Bowl in 2009, Van Zandt was the most prominently featured member of the band, playing a guitar solo on the final number of the set, “[[Glory Days (Springsteen song)|Glory Days] (although the solo could not be heard in the mix), as well as sharing lead vocals and exchanging humorous banter with Springsteen.
Van Zandt is married to actress Maureen Van Zandt (formerly Maureen Santoro) who portrays his wife Gabriella Dante in the TV series The Sopranos. They married in New York City on December 31, 1982. Bruce Springsteen was the best man at the ceremony, which was presided over by Reverend Richard Penniman (Little Richard). Singer Percy Sledge sang his classic “When a Man Loves a Woman” at the reception.
