Born and raised in London, Steph absorbed the cultural atmospheres of southern France from his mother, and gritty industrial Manchester from his father. Beginning his career in music in 2001, as the music industry was poised to enter a decade of chaos Steph moved to LA, where he founded music production shop Mophonics, with the aim of making records for brands. While writing songs and scores for the full gamut of American advertisers, Steph built a Mophonics talent pool who would go on to become household names in their own rights, as artists and writers.