Keyboard player with the Penguin Café Orchestra.

Nye met up with Simon Jeffes in 1972 and subsequently played keyboards on and co-produced 5 PCO albums, as well as touring worldwide.

Nye began his recording career as an assistant engineer at George Martin’s AIR Studios in London in 1971. Having worked with such artists as Deep Purple, Procol Harum, Roxy Music, Wings and Stevie Wonder he went on to engineer several albums with producer Chris Thomas, including Roxy Music's Siren. During this period he worked with many different artists covering a wide range of music from Frank Zappa to Ryuichi Sakamoto and Karlheinz Stockhausen.

Inspired with the experience obtained by working with various producers including Chris Thomas, George Martin, Rupert Hine and Leiber & Stoller, Steve made the transition to production, producing albums such as Robbie Robertson's Storyville, for which he received a Grammy nomination for Best Engineered Album. He also mixed The Last Emperor album for Sakamoto which won an Oscar for Best Soundtrack.