User:DLOFT01/Victor Romeo (musician)

Victor Romeo (a.k.a., Victor Mitchell, Parrish Mitchell) in a native Midwesterner who at 12 years old was busy learning how to play the guitar and piano. By age 13, his musical talent was being recognized by local bands. He was recruited to a number of bands that provided an opportunity for Victor to develop his craft and gain increased visibility as a budding musician.

Concurrently, disco music and house music bumped heads during the 1980s. During the 1970s and into the mid to late 1980s, disco music [|Disco] was sweeping the landscape in nightclub venues, radio broadcasts, and on all major media broadcasting stations in the nation and internationally. Victor was an ardent enthusiast of disco and was musically influenced by its synthesized sound and vocal reverberations that propelled people into a dance frenzy. During the late 1980s, house music [|House music] emerged to become a formidable underground movement that erupted as disco fever dissapated. Having submerged himself in the "house" culture of rhythmic bassline beats infused with soul and funk-infused elements of disco, Victor developed a penchant for creating familiar uptempo house music. He frequented such popular Chicago nightclubs as The Den and The Warehouse where house music was prominent. During those years, he met and befriended a number of notable house music producers, vocal artists, writers disc jockeys, and other musicians such as Marshall Jefferson [|Marshall Jefferson], Chip E. [|Chip E.], Harry Dennis [|Harry Dennis], Frankie Knucles [|Frankie Knuckles].

During the 1970s and 1980s and after his initial stints as a band member, Victor became a Producer and formed his own band (year/name). They recorded (name of song) which was his first independent project. In 1986, he was approached by several record label executives, but rather signing too hastily, he decided invest more time into his personal musical projects. In 1987, he signed with Bright Star/Dance Mania Records and recorded "You Can't Fight My Love.""You Can't Fight My Love"

From the 90s into the 21st century, Victor has remained consistent in delivering formidable beats and rhythmic styling in producing, creating, and rendering soulful house vocals on tracks (check out his discography), and has formed enviable collaborations with notable house music producers, artists and disc jockeys across the country.