Michel Esteban

Michel Antoine Gaston Esteban (born 7 May 1951) is a French record producer, record company executive, cultural center director and former magazine editor, who founded the Paris shop Harry Cover in 1973, was influential in the early development of punk rock, and, together with Michael Zilkha, established the New York-based record label ZE Records in 1978.

Life and career

Esteban was born in Paris. From 1968, he studied graphic arts at L'École d'Arts Graphiques in the city, and in 1973 founded a shop in the Rue des Halles, Harry Cover, which specialised in rock merchandise, magazines and books as well as imported records from the US and UK. The basement was used as a rehearsal space by bands, particularly as the punk rock scene developed in the mid 1970s. In 1974 Esteban travelled around the US, returning to New York where he studied under Milton Glaser at the School of Visual Arts. He became a friend of Patti Smith, Robert Mapplethorpe, Richard Hell and Tom Verlaine of Television, and John Cale, and was a regular visitor to the CBGB music club.

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Esteban

Esteban is a Spanish given name; it is a variant of the name Stephen.

People with the given name Esteban

Esteban, stage name of guitarist Stephen Paul

Esteban, an alternate name of Estevanico, 16th-century explorer; Moroccan-Berber who was the first known native African to reach the present-day continental United States

Esteban, a fictional character in The Mysterious Cities of Gold

Esteban Alvarado, Costa Rican goalkeeper

Esteban Andrés Suárez, Spanish football goalkeeper; plays for Real Oviedo

Esteban Cambiasso, Argentine football player; plays for Olympiacos

Esteban de la Fuente, Argentine basketball player

Esteban Fuertes, Argentine football player

Esteban Granero, Spanish football (soccer) player; plays for Real Sociedad

Esteban Guerrieri, Argentine racing driver

Esteban Gutiérrez, Mexican racing driver

Esteban Lazo Hernández, Cuban politician

Esteban Navarro, Spanish novelist

Esteban Pérez, Argentine basketball player

Esteban Ramírez, fictional character in American television sitcom The Suite Life of Zack & Cody

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Esteban (musician)

Esteban is the stage name of guitarist Stephen Paul. Esteban is from the Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania area. Recognizable by his bolero hat and sunglasses, Esteban has gained commercial success by selling his instructional DVDs and guitars on QVC and HSN and has produced numerous Billboard ranked albums.

Biography

Paul was the oldest of four children. He recounts that he began playing guitar at the age of eight when his uncle brought him a nylon-stringed guitar. He attended South Hills Catholic High School (since absorbed into Seton-La Salle Catholic High School) in Mt. Lebanon. He then attended Carnegie Mellon University, where he double-majored in music and English. At this time, he was teaching approximately 150 students a week and playing in nightclubs.

Segovia

Esteban states that at this point in his studies of the guitar, he felt a strong desire to study with Andrés Segovia. According to Esteban, after a long period where he pursued Segovia by sending notes to the hotels where he was staying, finally meeting Segovia in Los Angeles in 1972 and studied with him intermittently for the next five years, splitting his time between Spain and California. The extent of the connection between Segovia and Esteban, however, is heavily disputed. Although Esteban did meet Segovia, Esteban is not mentioned in any biography of Segovia, and Esteban never received the public acknowledgment Segovia gave students such as John Williams and Eliot Fisk. Segovia autographed one of his books for Esteban in 1978 with a flattering message, but Segovia is known to have signed hundreds or thousands of such messages.