Born just north of Boston, Massachusetts in the seaport town of Beverly, Steve Cuoco began playing the bass at the age of fifteen. "I was exposed to all kinds of music at a young age. Everything changed after I heard Stevie Wonder's "Songs In The Key Of Life" for the first time. Besides my being influenced by Nate Watt's wonderful bass playing, I wanted to be able to sound like Stevie's left hand as well".

"I was also very influenced (as everyone was) by "The Master", Jaco Pastorius and George Porter Jr. In 1987 the book "Standing In The Shadows Of Motown" came out with all those transcriptions of James Jamerson's bass lines....once again everything changed". (To this day I practice with that book!)

Steve attended Longy School Of Music in Cambridge, Massachusetts and has also studied with Oscar Stagnaro and the great Charlie Banacos.

Steve has toured, shared the stage and/or recorded with:
Lucky Peterson - Pinetop Perkins - Tony Lynn Washington - Solomon Burke - Robert Cray - Howard Tate - Shemika Copeland - Herb Pomeroy - Bob Newhart - Ringling Brothers and Barnum & Bailey Circus - The Big Apple Circus - Johnny A - Jon Jarvis - Thadeus Hogarth - Mark Whitfield - David Brown - The Beloved Few - Leroy Jones

Steve also has recorded various television and radio commercials and performed on countless casuals.