Updated May 9, 2002
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Stephen Arthur Stills was born in Dallas, Texas on January 3rd, 1945.

He would later, head off to military school in Tampa, Florida. As Stephen puts it, he witnessed great music in in Florida, heard and played on back porches, "incredible music" floating over the orange groves. Picking up blues sounds, along with his dad's old blues records.

Also, he would be a traveler, traveling with his parents, from Louisiana, to Cuba. Enriching his soul with everything from Bluegrass, to Latin beats.

Prior to 1964, he was in a group called the Company, in which he met a future bandmate Neil Young, and they agreed to keep contact, even though they were working in other projects. In 1964 he would join his future bandmate, Richie Furray in folk group called "The Au Go Go Singers." Stephen's broad vocals would carry even in the earliest of his music, and two vocally incredible songs would be produced on this album by him, "Miss Nellie" and "High Flying Bird," displaying rich vocal roots, with a soulful voice, on their first and only LP, "And they call us Au Go-Go Singers."

Then during the mid 1960's, he would meet Neil Young, on the freeway, as Stephen spotted Neil and Neil spotted Stephen, and things began to get arranged. They would form a band, with fellow friends, Richie Furay, Bruce Palmer, and Dewey Martin (and later, Jim Messina). And what lied ahead would be a very bumpy ride for all of them, through fame and tribulation....