About
Brise du Sud formed when guitarist David Heer and vocalist Deborah Steinberg met in San Francisco in 2023 and discovered a shared love of French music and culture. We decided to team up to share this iconic music with audiences, and the rest is history.
Deborah Steinberg studied classical piano growing up and began to focus on singing as a young adult. From 2002-2007, while living in Bordeaux, France, she released two albums of original folk songs under the name Deborah on Bordeaux label Odette Production in collaboration with French singer-songwriter Jon Smith. They toured in France, Spain, and England and played many concerts in Bordeaux. On returning to her native San Francisco, Deborah sang and wrote lyrics for the rock trio Backlit. She has sung alto in Conspiracy of Venus, a San Francisco a cappella vocal ensemble for treble voices, since 2008. By day, Deborah is a freelance editor and writing coach who specializes in helping authors structure and refine innovative, challenging books.
When David Heer was 14 years old, a neighborhood friend came over after school with one of his older sister’s record albums. It was titled Abbey Road and was by a group called the Beatles. Within minutes of the needle hitting the vinyl, David decided he wanted to play guitar. A couple years later, he formed a high school rock band called W.C. TOAN (“We Couldn’t Think Of A Name”). The friends did eventually think of a better name and became Equinox. They played high school dances, weddings, block parties, and restaurant lounges in the SF South Bay. In grad school, David played lead guitar for the UC Berkeley MBA rock band Dow Jones and the Industrials. While working as an intern in a Belgian bank, David jammed at night with local musicians in the bars of the Brussels nightlife neighborhood of Ixelles. After business school, David took a 35-year hiatus from music to pursue a finance career. When he retired, he returned to music, playing guitar for the rock/blues/country music band Heat Transfer Theorists and bass guitar for House. However, he soon zeroed in on traditional French music, which was inevitable once he met Deborah.