Mike Smith
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height: 6’0 weigh: 185lbs d.o.b: 8/13/81
Summary: Vocalist with more than 15 years of performance history (10 of the 15 years professionally); career includes live and recorded performances, with over 5 years of vocal training, music direction, stage production/production management, and management.
Professional Experience:
Vocalist/ Concert engagements-
The River Church- Mall of America (bi-weekly)
The High and Mighty- Don Breedlove
The R Factor- Marsh Edlestein- manager
Minnesota State COGIC Gospel Choir- Billy Steele- Director
Back-up Vocals- 6/00 to present
Shirley Caesar, Crystal Rutger,
Ron Winans, Bruce Parham, Jevetta Steele
Recordings-
Sounds of Blackness- 5 Grammy Nominations, 3 Grammys, Emmy Nomination, Soul Train Award, 3 Stellar Awards, 5 NAACP Image Award Nominations, International Time for Peace Award
The Sole City- Based out of Minneapolis
Vocal Training:
Stephen Hayes- Wiley College 8/08-5/11
Gary Hines- Sounds of Blackness Director 9/06-present
Clayton Southwick- Central High School
Rapid City, SD 1996-1999
Music Business:
Consulting/ Booking-
Boys and Girls Clubs of the Emerald Coast
Fort Walton Beach, FL
Mathew Troupe and Deliverance-
Panama City, FL
Wiley College Accapella Choir
Marshall, TX
David Hurst
Minneapolis, MN
Sole City
Minneapolis, MN
Appearances:
National Radio Conclave , Co-Host 2008
w/ Jason Jones, Award winning movie producer
39th NAACP Image Awards 2008
w/ Sounds of Blackness
KSTP, KARE, WCCO, KMSP-
Local television, Minneapolis, MN
Stage:
Generations of Black Music
2011
Wiley College, Director/Producer
Bye, Bye Birdie 2010
Lundstrum Centre Theatre
Step into the Light 2008
Lundstrum Centre Theatre
Education:
Walden University 9/11- 12/12
pursing Higher Education, MS
Wiley College 8/08- 5/11
English, BA
Central High School 1995- 1999
Rapid City, SD