Angel | "The Curt" | Sonte

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Michael Angel was born and raised in Cedar Rapids Iowa. He learned to play guitar at the age of 13 on an old junk guitar from the attic. He made an amp from an old eight track stereo that he used to listen to his big brothers hand me down 8tracks. Styx, Kansas and Queen were some of his first influences, compliments of his brothers. The guitar only had three strings; E, A, and G. This is what influenced his open string drowning style.

When his mom came home and heard his stereo blaring “Eruption” by Van Hallen she told him to turn it down. When she realized it was him and not the stereo, she decided it was time to go out and buy him a real guitar. Over the next seven years he played guitar for various original bands, but his love for painting inspired him to move to the East Coast at the age of 20.

After a year of painting and attending art school in the Philadelphia area he had his first gallery showing. It went well enough to get the painting monkey off his back but then his need to write music came back full strength. The timing was perfect because that's when he met Damon an incredible guitarist looking for a song-writing partner. This is when Angel began to become a front man. The first band the two of them formed was ADI SHAKTI, a hard rock band with Angel as the lead singer and bassist. They played the Philadelphia area for a few years before they changed their name to TOWER ISLAND.

After their change in name they met up with OCI Records. OCI signed them and put out an album within months. Angel produced the album with the labels president Glen Ohara. He also did all the illustration work for the album as well. The first single was a Song called "Nothing Else". After just one month after release it hit medium rotation on 106 stations nation wide with no advertising. It was doing great but the label was in financial trouble. Independent of the bands success the label went bankrupt. The band's disappointment pushed them to brake up.

Regardless of this Angel pushed forward and reformed the band again with new members. This time not only was he the singer but the rhythm and lead guitarist as well. He then started an on-line broadcasting company called "The New Rock Empire". It was a weekly live Internet broadcast that promoted unsigned bands to people and labels around the world. This is the inspiration behind his latest endeavor, a one of a kind Internet label that will redefine the meaning of "Independent".

Angel is currently a DJ at the upscale Gentleman's club called Day Dreams were he plays various styles of music he has composed himself, as well as re-mixes of other artists. He uses this environment to test out music he is currently righting for soundtrack work. Some of his new music varies in style from Rock, Club, Industrial, to Trip Hop. Some of his darker music is the inspiration for the new name of the band, Angry Angel. This is also the reason why some know him as DJ Angry Angel.