Once Michael’s CD is in your car’s player it tends to stay there. The happy mix of toe-tapping rhythms and upbeat lyrics makes your commute a breeze- and the tunes hum in your head all day. With influences from the Beatles to Dire Straits to Santana, from country to hip-hop to reggae, his songs are fresh and familiar. Audiences from Key West to Miami to New York are energizied by the irresistible pull of this music.


Born in São Paulo, raised in various countries in the Americas, and later living and travelling through the US, Michael has studied what people love in music. As a result, even those who hate country music love his two-step ‘Poolside in Paradise’, dancers sing and groove to ‘Stay in the Positive’, and girls from eight to eighty swoon to ‘Once Upon a Time’.


For the vast majority worn out by the constant daily assault of negativity, Michael’s positive lyrics are lifting the mood of all who hear them, making h