Michael Cutting

Michael Cutting is a multi-faceted guitarist, vocalist, songwriter, producer and mix engineer. He initiated his musical career at age 11 in California, USA.
Predominantly a self taught guitarist, Michael formed his first original music project "Rage" at age 14. By the age 18 he and his band shared the stage with International Recording Artists Uriah Heep, Axxe, Eric Martin Band (Mr. Big Fame, members of Tesla), Gary Myrick, The Headpins, War, Doctor John, John Mayall (John Mayall and the Bluesbreakers) and YandT, to name a few.
In 1983 he went to Music School to formally study Classical Guitar and Theory.
In addition to guitar, Michael has plays and has recorded various stringed instruments such as mandolin, bass, lap steel. Michael has the style of guitar playing is blues based rock and is characterized as fluid and soulful. His foundational influences come from blues legends Albert King, Howlin' Wolf, BB King, among others. Building on this, he sites modern blues masters such as Stevie Ray Vaughn and Gary Moore. He is also heavily influenced by Jimmy Page, David Gilmour and rock greats such as Eddie Van Halen, Dave Meneketti and Michael Schenker. Although influenced by these great masters, Michael still maintains his own style, fresh and unique.
In 1986 Michael joined the Los Angeles based rock band Holy Soldier as lead guitarist. The band released four critically acclaimed multi award winning albums over the course of 10 years- receiving multiple Dove Awards and many other prestigious recognitions. Michael toured and performed around the world with Holy Soldier for over a decade.
By the time Holy Soldier recorded their most recent release Encore in 1997, Michael had risen to the role of not only artist but also producer, sharing co-producing credits with famed producer and platinum mixing engineer David Zaffiro (Holy Soldier and Little Big Town). For a special bonus studio track on the Encore album, Michael produced legendary Singer/Actor/Entertainer Pat Boone, who appeared as a guest vocalist on a remake of Holy Soldier's international charting hit track Eyes of Innocence, which was co-written by Michael.
He has recorded and performed with various artists including David Bentz of Reclaimed, Paul Monroe of XYZ, Fabricio Ravelli of Hirax and co-wrote songs for Brett Williams, Death and Taxes and others.
In 2009 Michael attended the prestigious CRAS - Conservatory of Recording Arts and Sciences, a world renown school for audio production and engineering. With the same drive and determination Michael has utilized throughout his life and career to perfect his craft as a musician, Michael felt the need to continue to sharpen his skills on "the other side of the glass". He enhanced his abilities as an Engineer as well as a Producer to create even better productions and to bring to life his musical ideas as well as the Artists that he works with. Because of his extensive experience in the music industry as well as excelling in the curriculum, Michael was invited to join the faculty at the Conservatory upon graduation.
Since the final 1997 release of Holy Soldier's "Encore" Cd, Michael has continued to record, produce and engineer. In 2006 came the CD release of "In the Flesh, Tribute to Pink Floyd" (Spaceport Records) Michael was producer, engineer, guitarist and vocalist. In 2011 came the release "Inevitable" by Death and Taxes (DeadMoose Records). Again as producer, engineer and guitarist.
Working between United States and Brazil, Michael Mixed and Mastered the 2013 debut release of Brazilian MPB artist Ana Leao.