Album Notes

Michael 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, record producer and sound engineer.

Michael won $6000 worth of recording equipment in a 2004 songwriter’s competition at: songwriter.tv, and also was a finalist (four songs – three categories) in the UK 2004 International Songwriting Contest. He’s had Eighteen #1 songs on the broadjam Top 10 Charts in the past three years. 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 comes so naturally”.

One unique thing that stands out about Michael is his ability to play the role needed in creating, and displaying his own song material. He is the writer/composer/arranger/ producer/performer, and studio engineer on over 95% of his recordings. Although Michael’s claim is truly as a songwriter, he is grateful that many of his other talents are being used also in this music industry.

You can listen to much of Michael’s writing, composing and producing skills at his web site: www.belltimeproductions.com.

You can also go to www.broadjam.com/belltime. You are sure to find some interesting song material written in a variety of styles and genres of music also.