Check Out MICHAEL RAPHAEL’s Story

Today we’d like to introduce you to MICHAEL RAPHAEL.

Hi MICHAEL, can you start by introducing yourself? We’d love to learn more about how you got to where you are today?
I started as a kid admiring bands like KISS, Led Zeppelin., Ac/Dc and Aerosmith and Ted Nugent very much grew up with 70s rock. I formed bands and when I was 20 I formed my first real band called Jailhouse which landed a record deal on Enigma Records which was funded by Capital Records. Jailhouse had mild success with MTV and all the rock magazines but never broke really big. I than focused on my production skills and songwriting skills. When I was around 31 I joined a. New band called Neve which was signed to Columbia Records by Randy Jackson and charted in billboard with our mild hit “it’s over now” which was in the movie The faculty”” we got to do very cool things like opening for Kiss and going to Japan and play huge festivals.

Now we fast forward to today. I basically locked myself in my recording studio. I built in my house for two decades and now have over 9000 music placements in tv or film. Marvel films like Tror , Naked Gun just to name a few . I have also been one of the Main. composers on The price is right since 2012. I have worked everyday on music for tv and film and work with companies worldwide. I also formed my own production music label called “MRM” Michael Raphael Music which’ offers full songs with actual artists and almost seems like a record label because it’ has such amazing talent.

I’m sure it wasn’t obstacle-free, but would you say the journey has been fairly smooth so far?
I always had it in my mind that music is all I am going to do. When my band “Neve” lost its record deal because are A&R rep Randy Jackson left Columbia Records to join American Idol that was tough. One minute I am on the radio touring with KISS and the next I have no band and no record deal. That’s when I started thinking about just becoming a composer for tv and film and just never gave up. I don’t wait for inspiration I get up and go to work just like my father did.

Thanks for sharing that. So, maybe next you can tell us a bit more about your work?
Well, I got to a point in my career where huge companies like Universal Music and APM Music would all contact me and ask me to do things for them, which is an absolute honor. They would ask me to fix up music for sports, including hype chants that the Audience would sing along to. In stadiums. They would come to me and say can you do a pop punk record for us and I’m thinking that they have the Rolodex of the best composers in the business and they’re coming to me so it’s sort of an ego booster, but I will not let it boost my ego. I just keep going. I had a man who had a company in Germany, who is in his 80s and it’s been in the business for years call me and ask me to do rock records for him, and they would take the records and spread them and license them all over the world in different TV and film Projects. I even started doing some trailer type of music with live instruments and conductors. I have people that used to work for Hans Zimmer calling me asking me to do stuff for them so things are good. I’m very grateful and do not take anything for granite, and I learned the hard way that I could be here today and gone tomorrow.

Let’s talk about our city – what do you love? What do you not love?
I love Los Angeles, but not for the reasons you would think because we live in a world where you could deal with people in Germany just as easy as your next-door neighbor because of email. So I think the thing to be honest, I like the best about living in Los Angeles is the people and
There’s always something to do and there’s so many people in my industry that I know and I love going to great restaurants. I don’t know if that answered your question but that’s my answer.

Contact Info:

• Youtube: https://youtube.com/michaelraphaelmusic