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Mike Giordi is a singer, songwriter, musician, composer and producer of Dutch-Italian origin. He is the son of a father who was a talented jazz pianist-singer working mostly in the US and a mother that worked as a professional mannequin troughout the world. Strating very early as a child, he teached him self to play the guitar and also to sing. Even when still in childhood, it soon became clear, that being on stage and making music, was in his blood and would soon become also his greatest passions.

Carreer start. Mike Giordi began his musical career in the early 80s, as a working musician, playing gigs as a singer-guitar player in several professional bands and with various styles of music troughout Europe. Strongly influenced by famous artists and music of the early and mid 80s, and 90s, he tarted to developed a great interest in many different musical genres that people could dance to. Covering many of the prominent musical styles as a singer-guitar player in numerous cover bands and thus dealing with many of the songs that hit the charts, many of those tunes and sounds contributed to the fundament on which his own musical styles have developed through the years.

Set back and come back. After many years of working as a front man and lead singer with various bands, artists, stage-acts and studio projects, he also took serious interest in becoming a music producer and audio-engineer, as part of his developing craftsmanship in creating music. While on the road with bands like The Disque, Funk Me Tender, Powerpuff, La Strada, and other bands, an injury to his playing hand made it almost impossible to play the guitar any longer and forced him to pause his live performances for quite some time. Using that involuntarily "timeout-period" in a positive way and to re-learning his guitar playing, he also went to composing and writing songs for an albums and singles.

Taking up live-performance in band-formations again in 2009, he formed the live-band MG GROOVE GANG (Mike Giordi´s Groove Gang) and hooked up with good friends and co-musicians, drummer "Georgio Bletterman" and bass guitar player/singer "Will Nuruwe".

Debut Album Release. ---working on this---