Originally from
Montreal,
Quebec, Carse began his career in the 1990s. His first major television appearance was on TF1 in France on the show "Sacrée Soirée" with an audience of 17 million viewers. He sang an original French song called "Je voudrais lui dire", and was presented as "The Number One of Tomorrow". The song was released as a single on Sony France. His earliest hits were French translations of country hits such as "
Achy Breaky Heart" and "
Boot Scootin' Boogie". His breakthrough album, 1993's
Steph Carse, also included songs by
Elvis Presley and
Roy Orbison, while his followup, 1994's
Un Dernier slow, concentrated much more strongly on his own original songwriting. In 1999, he successfully entered the mainstream Canadian market when he donated a song for the
Special Olympics on an album entitled
Holiday Heroes. Featuring artists like
Alan Jackson,
Donna Summer,
Brooks & Dunn and
Kevin Bacon, Carse's song led off the album, which went gold and raised over $2 millions of net profit for the Canadian Special Olympics. Carse released his first American album,
Reach Out, in 2006.
Reach Out was also promoted by a 60-minute concert special which aired internationally, including on PBS in the United States. The one-hour special
Reach Out was filmed in
Kauai,
Las Vegas,
the Bahamas and
Orlando, Florida, and has won five awards from The Florida Motion Picture and Television Association FMPTA: "Best Feature Film in a Television Program", "Best Male Vocalist in a Feature Film", "Best Director in a Music Video", "Best Male Vocalist in a Music Video" and "Best Composer for the song Reach Out". Carse's collaborators on the
Reach Out project were
Eric Schilling,
Joe Hogue and
Gilles Godard. Carse donated the self-penned title track, "Reach Out" to the
American Red Cross in September, just three days before the
Hurricane Katrina disaster. The Red Cross fell in love with the song, named it the Official Thank You Song of the American Red Cross and used it to thank volunteers and donors. The album
The Best Pop Opera 2010, which features Carse's original song "No More Masquerade", reached #1 in
Turkey in March 2010, and remained in the Top 5 for over eight months. In 2012, Carse donated a song to
Whole Foods for The Whole Planet Foundation to help fight poverty around the world. In 2013, Carse acted for the first time in the
romantic comedy film
Marriage Material with Maddy Curley. On August 12, 2017, Carse's one-hour television special
My Shining Hour aired on
Daystar. In 2019 Steph Carse won the Emmy Award for Musical/Composition/Arrangement for "Amazing Grace" from the National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences, Suncoast Chapter. The National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences announced the winners of the 2020 Suncoast Regional Emmy Awards. Steph Carse received 2 Emmy Awards in the category Director for "Y iCount (You Are Awesome)," and Producer in a Religious Program: "My Shining Hour Story". ==Discography==