Michael Bell is a Music Producer and Independent record label owner of Bell Time Records.

Michael is no stranger to the Music Industry World. He knows exactly what Music Artists go through when trying to get their Songs promoted. He began his professional career as a teenager playing guitar for some of the most beloved names in R&B and Soul at the time, such as David Ruffin, Tyrone Davis, Laura Lee, and many others.

In recent years, he has focused on the exploding area of digital music, especially mobile music distribution, in which he is a pioneer in the area of real music ringtones. Michael has personally produced much of Warner Music's ringtone catalog, as well as those of countless Indie artists, such as Arcade Fire, Tamalaneh, Jelixa, The Civil Wars, and many others. His work is distributed through iTunes and all of the major mobile phone companies such as Verizon, Sprint, T-Mobile, AT&T and MetroPCS.

Michael Bell's Bio

Michael Bell is a competent songwriter / composer / producer / musician.

He began playing trombone at the age of 13yrs. Old, and later began playing guitar, bass and drums for various local groups in the Detroit area. In 1984, he became a church organist and minister of music, and later went on to record several albums as a Record Producer. He produced his first big recording in 1999, on the contemporary Christian artist Jeannine Byerly. He has since written and produced several more albums, of which, some have had much charted radio success.

Michael has played guitar with such recording artists as: David Ruffin, Tyrone Davis, Laura Lee, The Floaters Orchestra, Michael Bell & The Wings Of Freedom, Orlando Draper, and many others. He has since become a proficient songwriter, music composer, record producer and sound engineer.

Michael won $6000 worth of recording equipment in a 2004 songwriting competition at: songwriter.tv, and also was a finalist (four songs in three categories) in the UK 2004 International Songwriting Contest. He's had fifteen #1 songs on the broadjam Top 10 Charts, and. as Michael would say, "writing a song is like taking a drink of water, I don t have to think about how to do it, it just comes so naturally".

One unique thing that stands out about Michael is his ability to play the role needed in creating, and displaying his demo song material. He is the writer, composer, arranger, producer, performer and studio engineer on over 90% of his demo songs. Although Michael claim is truly as a songwriter, he is grateful that many of his other talents are being displayed through his music.

Writing and Producing original music is what Michael Bell, CEO of Belltime Productions is all about!