Born in England on 28th April 1949, Steve Jolliffe has been an active composer for forty years. Steve Jolliffe began his career in 1967, when he met Rick Davies and formed a group called The Joint, which was to emerge in the 70's as Supertramp. In 1968 he was the first student ever accepted into the BerlinHigh School for Music who had not yet learnt to  read music. Whilst at the school, he met Edgar Froese, and together with Klaus Schulze toured Germany for a year with Tangerine Dream. Steve left Tangerine Dream and returned to England where he joined a blues/rock band called Steamhammer, and began a tour throughout Europe. In 1973 Jolliffe left the group and began working on scoring and composing music for several films, including the award-winning documentary Tatoo.

Steve rejoined Tangerine Dream in 1978 and together with Froese, Chris Franke and Klaus Krüger, recorded the album Cyclone . The quartet toured Europe that year and played to crowds of up to 100,000 but most TD fans were dissatisfied with Tangerine Dream's musical development - as was Edgar Froese himself. Immediately following the end of the tour in London TD parted ways with Steve Jolliffe.

Later he released numerous solo albums of different musical styles, including Drake's Venture (1980), Earth (1981), Journeys Out Of The Body (1982), Japanese Butterfly (1983), Beyond The Dream (1984), Voices (1985), New Age Emotions (1986), The Minotaur (1987), Doorways To The Soul, The Japanese Way (both 1988), The Art Of Minimalism (1989) and Ethereal (1990).He also appeared on the Richard Wahnfried album Miditation (1986), together with Klaus Schulze. Jolliffe spent the rest of the decade recording library discs, for use in films.

Further releases include Ethereal (1990), Escape (1991), Warrior (1992), Maya (1993), Alien (1994), Zanzi (1995), Temmenu (1996), Omni (1997) and Deep Down Far (1999). Alien is less electronic than previous albums and contains extensive use of flute and saxophone. With Zanzi he explored ambient/trance and the disc was chosen by the nationally syndicated radio program Musical Starstreams as one of its Top Ten albums of 1996. Jolliffe also collaborated with the group Eat Static- Merv Pepler and Joie Hinton (formerly of Ozric Tentacles) on their album Science of the Gods and has also created a duo with Peplar called The Hi Fi Companions (released in February 2004). The opening track of Deep Down Far has been used in advertisements on the Discovery Channel .

A compilation album, Invitation was released in 2000 followed by Space and The Bruton Suite in 2003 and The Double Album in 2004 coinciding with the start of a European tour of Europe.