Michael has over thirty years professional performance experience as a vocalist/guitarist/bassist/keyboardist. His most recent work with John Oates, of Hall & Oates featured Michael's original string and horn arrangements of John's originals which were performed during his residency at Berklee College of Music.  Michael has also performed with Jon Secada, Bob Dorough, Lari White, Dawnn Lewis and others, opened for Take Six and Kevin Nealon. In the studio, Michael recorded commercial jingles for Aqualung, vocal backing tracks for Royal Caribbean Cruise Lines, Orange Bowl half-time shows, CPP Belwin choral demos, and album projects at the famed Criteria Studios, in Miami, Florida and New River Studio, Fort Lauderdale, Florida.