Steve Addabbo is best known as a Grammy winning producer, musician, writer, arranger, recording
engineer and owner of Shelter Island Sound recording studio in New York City who helped launch
the careers of Suzanne Vega and Shawn Colvin. He had a vital hand in Vega's hit single, "Luka" and
Colvin's album Steady On.
He has produced and/or engineered for artists including Bobby McFerrin, Bob Dylan, Eric Andersen,
Loudon Wainwright III, Jeff Buckley, Jane Olivor, Olivia Newton-John, The Manhattans and Dar Williams.
Addabbo is also an acclaimed mix engineer who has, among other projects, mixed the Bob Dylan box sets
Bootleg 10: Another Self Portrait[5] and Bootleg 12: The Cutting Edge for which he received a Grammy Award.
More recently he has mixed the Dylan Bootleg 13, Trouble No More and Bootleg 14, More Blood, More Tracks
He owns Shelter Island Sound Studios[6] located in Manhattan, New York.
Addabbo released his first full-length album Out of Nothing in 2016, 14 songs written or co-written by him.
Recent projects include Richard Barone's Sorrows and Promises: Greenwich Village in the 60s and
the Robby Romero track "Born on the REZ" recorded with Dennis Banks, Robert Mirabal and
Kris Kristoffersen honoring the Standing Rock Movement.