Chris Michael

Hi, I’m Chris and I’m based in West Lancashire. A lover of all things creative, more specifically photography, but my background has mostly been in music. In a nutshell…

I’ve spent most of my life working in the music industry, achieving great success internationally as a composer, remixer and record producer. My work has appeared on 117 charts around the world and includes 11 number one’s; such as on the Billboard chart in America and also a Grammy nominated record. I studied at the Royal Northern College of Music (piano) before moving on to Spirit Studios’ School of Sound Recording in the early 90’s and then onto radio.

I have hosted radio shows which were syndicated to 76 stations around the world, achieving monthly listening figures of 2.2 million at its peak. I also co-founded and managed a multi-award winning community radio station which has also been presented with the Queen’s Award for Voluntary Service (essentially, an MBE for voluntary groups!) I’ve also run my own music industry school and radio/tv presenter training academy.

I moved away from a career in the media (and my home-town) to try my hand at other things and focus on family life. I am a proud father, hard working carer and home educator for my incredible children who each have varying levels of complex needs. I balance my role as father, carer, poor joke teller and teacher with that of incredible husband (well, I would say that!) and university student.

I am currently studying for my first ever BSc STEM degree which so far has been challenging yet highly enjoyable. It’s fair to say I have a lot going on!

I’ve faced numerous physical and mental health challenges over the past few years which I’m pleased to say I’ve come through thanks to having an incredibly supportive wife and children. I’m over the worst of it, but still have daily ‘challenges‘ shall we say. With this said, I’m a very positive and happy person and I put that down to the fact I keep toxic people out of my life!

I‘ve had a huge interest in flying for many years and have flown helicopters and light aircrafts (including gliders). I enjoy keeping active at the gym (in order to fight off my chocolate addiction) and getting out and about every weekend to keep fit, explore the great outdoors and take dramatic landscape photos. Teddy, our Toy Poodle puppy just loves waking me up at 5:30am every day. The cutest, yet most expensive alarm clock I’ve ever owned.

Photography is my new love and my work can be viewed on:Instagram. ❤️