Euge Groove is the stage name of Steven Eugene Grove, born on November 27, 1962, in Hagerstown, Maryland. He began on piano in the second grade and took up the saxophone at nine or ten, starting on alto and moving to tenor later. His teacher gave him a classical education on the instrument, which he continued at the University of Miami School of Music, where he first became interested in jazz. He graduated in 1984.

He stayed in Miami after graduating, working sessions and playing in bands, among them Exposé, the Miami vocal group whose No. 1 single "Seasons Change" (1987) carries his saxophone solo. He then moved to Los Angeles and joined Tower of Power as the replacement for Richard Elliot, who had left to pursue a solo career. Biographies describe the stay as about four years, and his own website dates his Tower of Power touring from 1988 to 1992. He plays alto and tenor on the band's Monster on a Leash (1991).

After Tower of Power he freelanced as a sideman and touring player. His own site lists world tours with Huey Lewis and the News (1988), Richard Marx (1990 to 1994), Joe Cocker (1994 and 1995, 1997 and 1999, and again as an opening act in 2005) and Eros Ramazzotti (1996, 1998 and 2003 to 2004). His saxophone is on Marx's Rush Street (1991), Bonnie Raitt's Luck of the Draw (1991), Paula Abdul's Spellbound (1991), Aaron Neville's Warm Your Heart (1991) and Elton John's Duets (1993), and AllMusic also lists Eurythmics and the Gap Band among his clients. He appears on David Benoit's Right Here, Right Now (2003) and Full Circle (2006), Rick Braun's Kisses in the Rain (2001) and Peter White's Glow (2001), early signs of the smooth jazz circle he would soon belong to.

At the end of the 1990s he developed the Euge Groove persona, a reworking of his real name. The name was at first assumed to have been coined by fans who saw him play in Europe; in a 2006 XM Radio interview he said his mother-in-law came up with it. A demo led to a contract with Warner Bros., and his debut, Euge Groove, came out on May 2, 2000, reaching No. 25 on Billboard's Contemporary Jazz Albums chart. He was touring in Tina Turner's band at the time. Play Date followed on July 2, 2002 with the singles "Slam Dunk" and "Rewind" and reached No. 10.

He moved to Narada Jazz for Livin' Large (March 9, 2004, No. 4) and Just Feels Right (August 30, 2005, No. 3), whose single "Chillaxin'" reached No. 3 on Billboard's Smooth Jazz Songs chart. Born 2 Groove (June 19, 2007) took him to No. 1 on the Contemporary Jazz Albums chart and produced "Born 2 Groove" and "Religify," both No. 1 smooth jazz singles. In 2009 he signed with Shanachie, where he has stayed. Sunday Morning (October 27, 2009) reached No. 2 with a No. 1 title track, and S7ven Large (May 17, 2011), which he produced and arranged himself, reached No. 3. House of Groove (September 25, 2012) returned him to No. 1 on the albums chart, again with a No. 1 title single.

The Shanachie run continued with Got 2 Be Groovin' (August 19, 2014, No. 2), Still Euge (July 22, 2016, No. 1), Groove On! (November 17, 2017, No. 2) and Sing My Song (June 2020, No. 5), the last with guests including Maysa, Peter White, Philippe Saisse and Paul Brown. Those records were made largely at his own studio, the Groove House in Thousand Oaks, California, as credited on the 2016 and 2017 albums. In 2017 he also reached No. 1 on the smooth jazz chart as the featured saxophonist on Adam Hawley's "I Don't Mind." Comfort Zone followed on August 25, 2023, produced with bassist Cornelius Mims and keyboardist Tracy Carter. His latest album, The Phoenix, was released on Shanachie on July 17, 2026.

Euge Groove is a smooth jazz and R&B saxophonist, and the music says so plainly. AllMusic describes his sound as a funky blend of instrumental jazz, R&B and pop, and NPR has said his melodies sound more like pop and R&B with a bit of jazz on top. His records are built around hummable tenor melodies, steady backbeats, organ and Rhodes colors and slow-jam ballads, with soprano saxophone on the lighter tracks. His albums chart on Billboard's contemporary jazz lists and his singles on its smooth jazz radio chart, and his own biography counts thirteen No. 1 radio hits and more than a million sales.

The jazz-side credentials are real but specific. He trained at the University of Miami School of Music, he worked for years in Tower of Power, the Oakland funk and soul band known for its horn section, and he has been a regular guest on records by smooth jazz and contemporary jazz players such as David Benoit, Rick Braun and Peter White. Asked about his influences, he has named David Sanborn, Junior Walker, King Curtis, David "Fathead" Newman, Gato Barbieri and the Texas tenor tradition, a list that runs from rhythm and blues honking to the big-toned jazz tenor. He produces and arranges his own albums, and the recent ones lean on a small, fixed studio band rather than large production teams.