Editing Steve Forbert (section)

==Early life==
Forbert was born in [[Meridian, Mississippi]], United States.<ref name="Larkin">{{cite book|title=[[Encyclopedia of Popular Music|The Virgin Encyclopedia of Popular Music]]|editor=Colin Larkin|editor-link=Colin Larkin (writer)|publisher=[[Virgin Books]]|date=1997|edition=Concise|isbn=1-85227-745-9|page=477}}</ref> As a child, he fell in love with music, even playing air guitar in a pretend band he called The Mosquitos. Due to a fascination with [[Top 40]] radio, he proclaimed himself a "music junkie." At 17, he started writing songs. After high school, he attended junior college and worked as a truck driver.<ref>{{cite web |last1=Rafferty |first1=Nicole |title=Steve Forbert |url=https://www.mswritersandmusicians.com/mississippi-musicians/steve-forbert |website=Mississippi Writers & Musicians |publisher=Mississippi Writers Project |access-date=3 August 2024}}</ref> Forbert moved to New York City in 1976<ref name="Larkin"/> to experience the punk rock scene of the 1970s. There he performed on the street to passersby in [[Greenwich Village]], and had early shows as a singer with a guitar and harmonica at punk club [[CBGB]] before moving on to folk venues Kenny's Castaways and [[Gerde's Folk City|Folk City]].<ref name="Boston Globe">{{cite news |last1=Daley |first1=Lauren |title=Steve Forbert: 'I became a music junkie, and that's the way it's been ever since' |url=https://www.bostonglobe.com/arts/music/2018/09/26/steve-forbert-became-music-junkie-and-that-way-been-ever-since/fJ6vmlomj6eKFD2VStrXxN/story.html |access-date=December 7, 2018 |newspaper=[[The Boston Globe]]|date=September 26, 2018}}</ref><ref name="New York Times">{{cite news |last1=Rockwell |first1=John |title=Pop Music: Steve Forbert |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1978/12/22/archives/pop-music-steve-forbert.html |access-date=December 7, 2018 |newspaper=[[The New York Times]] |date=December 22, 1978}}</ref>