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Michael Angelo

Born in Topeka, Kansas in 1954, Michael Angelo’s musical awakening began in 1962 when he heard the Joe Meek–produced track “Telstar” by the Tornados, and deepened once Beatlemania spread stateside. Gifted his first guitar by a doting aunt at age 11, soon the prodigy gained six-string proficiency, began his first furtive attempts at songwriting, and taught himself to play bass, harmonica, and piano over the next few years.

The multi-instrumentalist released his first album in 1977, the self-titled Michael Angelo. Recorded during his off hours at his job as a session man at Liberty Recording, the original release was only 500 copies. In 2015, Anthology Recordings remastered and re-released the album. In 2012 Dean Blunt sampled Angelo’s track “Nubian Queen” on his song “Galice”

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