Steve Ivey, Nashville, Tennessee (February 28) is a 17 time #1 Billboard, multi-award-winning and nominated (2 time Emmy, 3 time Grammy, 6 time Dove, 2time Tele Award, Billboard, Gracie) American music writer, producer, musician, and recording engineer.He is owner of IMI (Ivey Music International) which distributes music in over 20 countries and creator of IMI Webshops (an online digital music retail platform).In 2011 Steve also diversified his companies and opened Simon Solar, which is a solar electric power company with one of the largest solar facilities in the US and has several other solar sites in development currently in the southeast US. Music that Steve Ivey produced or wrote has been on the Billboard top sales charts for over 1000 weeks consecutively, selling over 10 million CD's and songs.The Ivey Music International record label was one of Billboards #1 Label of The Decade for 2000 to 2010 awarded for the largest number of product sells in a genre. He has written, created, and produced music for a wide variety of music artists, music for film and television, comedy albums, and music for corporations.His music collaborations include working with Duck Dynasty, Mountain Man, Aaron Neville, Dolly Parton, Vince Gill, Mark Wills, UrbanNation, Blessing, Angela Brown, Bill Anderson, The Weather Channel, The Oak Ridge Boys, Ricky Scaggs, Nissan, Special Olympics, BeDoTell, Willie Nelson, Focus on the Family, EMI, Madacy, VH-1, Access Hollywood, The E! Network, The Care Bears, Crystal Gayle, Jim Carrey feature film Phillip Morris, Stetson, Chantel, Soul Union, Big STuf, Slidawg, LynnMarie, Janet's Planet, Starsong, The Simple Life 1 & 2, Army Wives, Ugly Betty, Floorz America, Cindy Bealer, The Jordanaires, Charles Billingsley, Chiros, Smoky Mountain String Machine, Billy Dean, Blackhawk, Renovation Nation, Wild Animal Baby, Buffalo Sabres theme song, Colonel Littleton, The Hello Strangers, Jim Lauderdale, The Vampire Diaries, Sugabum, and many others.