Michael Bell is currently the independent record label owner of Bell Time Records. He began playing trombone at the age of 13yrs. Old, and later began playing guitar, bass and drums for various local groups in the Detroit area. In 1984, he became a church organist and minister of music, and later went on to record several albums as a Record Producer. He produced his first big recording in 1999, on the contemporary Christian artist Jeannine Byerly. He has since written and produced several more albums, of which, some have had much charted radio success.
Michael has played guitar with such recording artists as: David Ruffin, Tyrone Davis, Laura Lee, The Floaters Orchestra, Michael Bell & TheWings Of Freedom, Orlando Draper, and many others. He has since become a proficient songwriter, record producer and sound engineer.
Michael won $6000 worth of recording equipment in a 2004 songwriting competition at: songwriter.tv, and also was a finalist (four songs in three categories) in the UK 2004 International Songwriting Contest. He's had fifteen #1 songs on the broadjam Top 10 Charts in the past two years. As Michael would say, "writing a song is like taking a drink of water, I don t have to think about how to do it, it comes so naturally".
One unique thing that stands out about Michael is his ability to play the role needed in creating, and displaying his demo song material. He is the writer/composer/arranger/ producer/performer, and studio engineer on over 95% of his demo songs. Although Michael claim is truly as a songwriter, he is grateful that many of his other talents are being displayed through his music.
You can listen to much of Michael's writing, composing and producing skills at the following web sites: http://www.belltimerecords.com. If you want to go straight to Michael’s music page got to: http://www.belltimerecords.com/music.html.
You are sure to find some interesting song material written in a variety of styles and genres of music on this website.
