Andreas Stevens didn't look like the future star of the acid jazz genre early in his career. The producer and DJ from Southern California has a love for hip-hop, but decided to try acid jazz after he had bad luck finding an MC. The genre was in its earliest stages, making it ripe for a talented artist like Stevens to make an impact. He took the name Greyboy and started working. He teamed up with saxophonist Karl Denson and released his debut album in 1994 called Freestylin'. The album wasn't majorly marketed and came from the relatively small Ubiquity Records, but it still grew in popularity by word-of-mouth marketing.He released Land of the Lost as a follow up in 1996, but it did not find as much success as his initial release. He and Denson decided to team up after that and created the Greyboy Allstars along with Robert Walter on keyboards, Elgin Park on guitars and vocals, Chris Stillwell on bass and vocals and Zak Najor on drums, percussion and vocals. Stevens put out three albums with the band on his own Label. Soon after, he teamed up with Rob Dyrdek, a skateboarder, to create a hip-hop record label called P-Jays.He returned as Greyboy in 2001 and released Mastered the Art. The album took his jazz and hip-hop background and melded them together to create an album that was loved by critics. He released two albums in 2004 with Soul Mosaic and Shades of Grey. The former was his first to make it onto the mainstream charts and reached number 21 on the Top Electronic Albums chart. His talent as a jazz artist and hip-hop DJ has led to Stevens performing all over the world in places like Japan, and Europe.