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Michael Sterling is a composer, musician, and producer from Miami, Florida. His musical career started in his teens when he played bass for popular Latino recording artist Ray Fernandez. Eager to branch out into another direction, Michael and two childhood friends formed the group Silver Platinum, who quickly scored a hit on the R&B charts with their hit Dance. Michael then went on to play bass guitar and sing as a member of the Grammy Award winning reggae band Inner Circle. Inner Circle is most known for their hit Bad Boys which is used as the theme song for the Bad Boys film franchise that stars Will Smith and Martin Lawrence. It is also used as the theme song for hit television show COPS.
After touring the world with Inner Circle he returned to Miami and began his career as a solo artist, during this period, Michael also spent time as an audio engineer and producer at Luke Records, where he produced hits for local artists 2 Live Crew, MC Shy D, JT Money and others. He also served as musical director for BMG recording artist Blu Cantrell. While assisting in the development of other artists’ careers, Michael continued to strengthen as a songwriter, and soon found many of his original compositions being covered by some of the hottest new artists. His song Holiday served as inspiration for the derivative Trick Daddy single Thug Holiday, which is also the title track of Trick Daddy's Platinum album.
In 2005, Usher, Ludacris and Lil' Jon and the East Side Boys covered his song Lovers and Friends from his Trouble album. The song was released on the quadruple platinum album Crunk Juice and was the winner of two BMI Billboard awards including ‘Hip Hop Song of the Year’. In 2006, his song Bedroom Boom was covered by The Ying Yang Twins featuring Avant on the platinum Ying Yang CD U.S.A.
On November 17, 2009, volume 1 of his new two volume album, Eyes Around My Heart was released. He has been featured in performances on the Today Show and the Tonight Show with Jay Leno and is president of the Michael Sterling Music Group (MSMG).
