Steve Walsh is an American singer, keyboardist, and songwriter born on June 15, 1951, in St. Joseph, Missouri. He performed with local groups in Topeka, Kansas, before joining White Clover, which signed with Don Kirshner's label and took the name Kansas. As lead vocalist for Kansas, he sang on classic tracks including "Carry On Wayward Son", "Dust in the Wind", "Point of Know Return", and "All I Wanted", contributing to studio records such as Leftoverture (1976) and Point of Know Return (1977). He departed Kansas in 1981 following the album Audio-Visions (1980) and his debut solo record Schemer-Dreamer (1980), subsequently forming the rock group Streets to record 1st (1983) and Crimes in Mind (1985). Rejoining Kansas upon the group's reformation in 1986, he performed on albums including Power (1986) and In the Spirit of Things (1988) until retiring from the band in 2014. His solo output includes Glossolalia (2000), Shadowman (2005), and Black Butterfly (2017), alongside guest appearances with Steve Hackett and Kerry Livgren.
