User talk:Mindingall

Michael Mindingall a Detroit native, born May 11 1966 started playing the trombone at the age of six. However, by the age of twelve, Michael already in the school band developed affection for the piano. By the time Michael graduated from high school, he was working professionally playing keyboards for award winning soul singer Jennifer Holiday. In 1988 Michael formed his own choir Communion, and recorded the Cd “He’s Alive” for Detroit’s Sound of Gospel label in 1991. When his mentor, Thomas “The Maestro” Whitfield (renowned for his choir, composition and production work), needed an up-tempo song for a CD he was producing on baritone Douglas Miller; Michael submitted his tune “On the Battlefield” for his first nationally released song. While studying musical theory at Henry Ford College, Michael was offered the job of music director for a play called “Selma” (Executive producers Tommy Butler and Redd Foxx) left school to work in the music industry fulltime. Over the next decade, Mindingall honed his skills and became an in-demand session player on numerous recordings and in concert settings. In October 2005 Michael traveled overseas to Krefeld, Germany where he was the special guest for the Gospel Musik Festival where 400 choir members preformed his original songs. The event was named after his song “He’s Alive” sung around the country every Easter which was arranged to Ludwig Van Beethoven’s’ 5th Michael Mindingall is a sought after producer, writer, arranger, and keyboardist that has worked with music industry giants, like Aretha Franklin, Holland and Holland (Motown hit writers) Diana Ross, The Dramatics, Four Tops, Thomas Whitfield, Yolanda Adams just to name a few. His keyboarding can be heard on Ms. Franklin’s 2006 Grammy award winning tribute song to Luther Vandross, “A House Is Not A Home,” When Diana Ross preformed at the fame Fox Theater Michael was called to provide background vocals for the pop Diva.