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Stein Groven, born 22 February 1952), better known by his stage name Casino Steel, is a Norwegian-born keyboard player, singer and songwriter.

He has played in several different bands and collaborations within rock, punk and country in Norway, United Kingdom and the USA, and has released several solo albums. He was inducted into the Norwegian Rockheim Hall of Fame in September 2021.

At the age of 18, he moved to London where, in the 1970s, he was a member of the punk rock bands Hollywood Brats, London SS and later The Boys, which are still active.

In Norway, he first became known for his collaboration with Gary Holton, with whom he released four albums at the start of the 1980s. The collaboration was very successful in Norway but went unnoticed in other countries.

In 1983 he started a collaboration with Norwegian artists Claudia Scott and Ottar "Big Hand" Johansen in the country trio Claudia / Big Hand / Casino. The trio released three records. They received the Norwegian Spellemannprisen in 1985 in the category roots & country for the album Oh Yeah! and was nominated for the Norwegian music award Spellemannprisen in 1984 in the category country & western for Fools Never Learn.

The collaboration with Claudia Scott continued beyond the 80s, first as a duo and then in the band CCCP where Carlene Carter and John Payne were also members. In 1990, he released his first solo album, which was named Casino Steel. The following year he started the record company Revolution Records. In 2007, he started The Last Rock 'N' Roll Band together with, among others, Honest John Plain from The Boys.

Stein Groven received the veteran award at the Norwegian award Gammleng-prisen in 2019 and was nominated for the Rockheim Hall of Fame in 2018 and 2019 before being inducted in 2021.

In 2002, he was sentenced to 120 days in prison for fraud in the Norwegain recording artist orgnaisation GramArt where Stein Groven was the chairman of the board. The case received a lot of attention in the Norwegian media, as a number of well-known Norwegian musicians participated as witnesses.