Michael Lord (music)

Michael Lord is a songwriter, composer, producer and Indie recording artist. His 2004 release SWAY found an audience when his song Smile was chosen by the Apple iTunes Music Store as their Single of The Week. Other songs from SWAY including Bleed and Forgiven soon found their way into hit television shows such as ALIAS and What AbOUT Brian. He followed SWAY with a mini EP titled THE STRING SESSIONS reinterpreting the songs from SWAY acoustically with a string quartet. Michael wrote all string arrangements which were then performed by The Section Quartet.

In 2005 Michael was hired by producer Desmond Child to arrange and record two songs for American Idol's Season 4 Showstoppers Album resulting in an RIAA Certified Gold Record.

Following the American Idol success he has turned his attention to music production producing tracks for Courtney Jaye, Paulina Gretzky and Stella Wake Up as well as writing songs for NBC's hit comedy My Name Is Earl

Currently Michael is producing songs for ABC's highly touted drama series Brothers & Sisters

Biography

Michael Lord was born in Los Angeles California. He attended the Berklee College of Music in Boston, MA as a Recipient of the Chick Corea Jazz Masters Scholarship Award. Upon returning to Los Angeles Michael signed his first recording deal with Atlantic Records as a member of the band Tattoo Rodeo. The band was signed by industry veterans Jason Flom and Nick Ferrara. In support of the album the band toured with Bad Company, [...] Yankees and Ted Nugent. Tattoo Rodeo recorded a second album for BMG titled SKIN. The band then went their separate ways. Michael continued on to become a member of the band Royal Slone. The band signed a production deal with Rick Rubin and American Recordings. After too many delays Royal Slone accepted a deal from legendary A&R Veteran, Tom Zutant and made an album for Island/Def Jam with producer Eric Valentine. During the mix stage Michael left the band to pursue a solo career. Royal Slone changed their name to California. After Tom Zutant was fired the band was dropped but the album eventually came out on Rob Kahane's Trauma Records. To support the album California toured with Stevie Nicks.

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