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Parents Joseph Burns Jr. (1938–2015) and Janet Burns (née Petaccio) welcomed him into the world in Boyertown, Pennsylvania. His sisters number two. His father was a member of the U.S. Navy and later worked for Safeguard Business Systems as director of human resources. He graduated in 1992 from Boyertown Area Senior High School in Berks County.

In high school and college, Burns was a member of the bands Sudden Impact US, Nine Pound Truck, and the Ivys, which he has referred to as a “Morrissey rip-off band.”

He attended DeSales University in Center Valley, Pennsylvania, in the Lehigh Valley on an acting scholarship to study theatre, where an agent first came across him.

He left school and relocated to New York City to pursue a career as an actor.

Steve Burns’s filmography and musical career

Before Songs for Dustmites, his debut album, was produced by PIAS Records in late 2002, Burns spent two and a half years honing the songs for it in a small studio in his Brooklyn home. After leaving Blue’s Clues in 2002, he began work on the album, which was eventually released in 2003. He uploaded eleven songs to his website before recognising he needed assistance with the drums and the arranging. He sought advice from Flaming Lips member Steven Drozd.

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The album was engineered by Lips bassist Michael Ivins, produced by longtime Lips producer Dave Fridmann, with six tracks contributed by Drozd. The opening theme for the CBS television show Young Sheldon is “Mighty Little Man,” one of the songs from the album. Burns made his television series debut in January 2020 as a Star Trek fan that the main character meets.

Deep Sea Recovery Efforts, Burns’ second album, was finished and published in 2009. Burns has formed a band called Steve Burns and the Struggle. Drozd and Ryan Smith of A Million Billion are participants in the Struggle.

In 2007, he played the lead role in the DeSales University production of Amadeus. He also made an appearance in The Comedy of Errors.

Foreverywhere, a children’s album co-written by Burns and Drozd, was released in late 2016 under the moniker “STEVENSTEVEN.” The album’s opening track, “The Unicorn and Princess Rainbow,” was made into a video.

Are Steve and Joe real brothers?

Steve’s younger brother is Joe. When Steve departs for college, Joe stays behind with Blue and takes over as the show’s new host for the remaining seasons (seasons 5 to 6).

Blue’s Clues

Burns thought that Blue’s Clues was another voice-over audition in 1995. He wore an earring and had long hair. I used to be a little skate rat, he said. Burns’ hosting of the new Nickelodeon show was initially opposed by the network’s executives; in later tryouts, the show’s founders insisted that he wear more formal attire. Burns claimed that the writers asked him, “Could you not look like yourself tomorrow morning,” in a call-back phone discussion.

However, it soon became clear that he was the audience favourite among the preschool test participants. Burns was “the realest” of the 100 persons they auditioned, according to executive producer and co-creator Traci Paige Johnson. According to Alice Wilder, Director of Research and Development at Nickelodeon: “Something about this young man, who had recently moved from Pennsylvania, made him naturally adept at directing children’s attention in the camera. He was spot on.”

From the beginning, Burns was “extremely active” in the making of Blue’s Clues. Performing on the “blue screen” before the animation was applied was one of the most difficult components of hosting the show. Burns compared it like “acting at the bottom of a swimming pool” and called it “maddening.”