MY MISSISSIPPI REUNION
Featuring the new official state song of Mississippi "One Mississippi"
Winner of the 2021 Mississippi Institute of Arts and Letters best contemporary album, My Mississippi Reunion is a collection of new and remastered songs all coming together on one project. The songs "Coldwater" featuring grammy winner Cedric Burnside, "Rosedale", "Midnight" and the official state song of Mississippi, "One Mississippi" have led the way to the success of this record.
"ONE MISSISSIPPI"
SHEET MUSIC NOW AVAILABLE
Watch the new abridged "One Mississippi" video featuring Magnolia state's notables! HERE
Based on “One Mississippi,” the newly-proclaimed official state song of Mississippi, by award-winning performer Steve Azar, and illustrated by award-winning children’s book author Sarah Frances Hardy.
2023's #1 best-selling book for young adults/children in Mississippi, of all books published worldwide.
About
steve azar
Steve Azar, a Mississippi delta native, is a hit songwriter, recording artist, music producer and author. Azar has had nine charted singles on Billboard Hot Country Songs and has released seven critically acclaimed studio albums including Waitin’ on Joe which rendered a hit title track and #1 music video as well as the smash hit “I Don’t Have To Be Me (‘Til Monday)”, a recipient of four (4) BMI Million-Air awards. The hit single “Sunshine” (also a #1 video) and the album Slide on Over Here were featured in the 2011 “Oprah’s Favorite Things” edition of O Magazine. The Steve Azar & The Kings Men album titled Down at The Liquor Store is backed by veteran bandmates of B.B. King, Elvis Presley, and other icons of music with a feature documentary, Something in the Water, chronicling the making of the record. His latest, My Mississippi Reunion, winner of the 2021 Mississippi Institute of Arts and Letters award for best contemporary album, features a collection of past and new songs inspired by Azar’s roots including the song “One Mississippi” which became the new official state song of Mississippi 2022. Azar is the author of the # 1 Best Selling children's book "One Mississippi". He was enshrined on the Mississippi Country Music Trail as the trail’s 32nd marker in 2019. He is the recipient of the 2018 prestigious Mississippi Arts Commission “Governor's Choice Award” and 2023 Mississippi Music Awards Lifetime Achievement award. In April 2024, Azar was featured in the Grammy Museum Mississippi exhibit “Celebrating Mississippi’s Influence”, alongside Marty Stewart, Faith Hill, Jerry Lee Lewis, Bobby, Rush, Charley Pride, Mary Wilson of the Supremes and Leontine Price. Azar's recording of his song "Our Castle is Your Home" is featured on the Grammy nominated Rock for Children, Vol 1 record which is a full-length studio album released in 2024 headlined by legendary artists Alice Cooper, Rob Halford from Judas Priest, Guitarist Steve Cropper.
Steve and his wife Gwen founded the Steve Azar St. Cecilia Foundation in 2006 which produces the annual Delta Soul Celebrity Golf & Charity Event raising funds for arts and educational organizations. An accomplished golfer, Steve has been ranked one of the top five musicians that play golf by Golf Digest Magazine numerous times, and he is a frequent guest at charity golf tournaments across the country.
Azar is the official Music & Culture Ambassador of Mississippi and is an in-demand keynote speaker. He hosts his own radio show and podcast titled In a Mississippi Minute with Steve Azar, available on SuperTalk Mississippi radio and all podcast platforms. He serves as brand ambassador for the award-winning Dancing Rabbit Golf courses and Pearl River Resorts in the rolling hills of Choctaw, Mississippi as well as Mississippi based food company Sherin Foods. In 2024, Steve launched the I Don't Have to Be Me ('Til Monday) Bloody Mary Mix, his own signature blend, appropriately named after his weekend anthem.
"Steve Azar's Mississippi", Azar's resident show in his hometown of Greenville, is Viking Cruise line's number one rated show and event on the Mississippi.
SOMETHING IN THE WATER
This documentary chronicles Azar's endeavor to record his album Down at the Liquor Store at the historic Club Ebony in Indianola, Mississippi with an assembled team of storied musicians, who worked with the likes of
B.B. King and Elvis Presley. Read More