Steve Forbert (b. 1954, Meridian, Mississippi) is an American popular singer. He is best known for his song "Romeo's Tune", which reached #11 on the Billboard chart in 1980. The song, although "dedicated to the memory of Florence Ballard" on the sleeve of the album "Jackrabbit Slim," is not about Supremes singer Ballard who died in 1976. "Forbert admits that Ballard became a timely connection for "Romeo's Tune", written about a girl from Meridian. Wikipedia
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Forbert was born in 1955 in Meridian, Mississippi , and grew up there. At the age of ten, Steve Forbert began playing the guitar ("Steve Forbert: Bio") and, as he said in a recent interview, "for me playing guitar means singing." Forbert comments that, www.shs.starkville.k12.ms.us/mswm/MSWritersAndMusicians/m...
