Michael Behm

To call Michael Behm a music industry renaissance man is actually something of an understatement. As an artist, he’s equally comfortable working under the spotlight or behind the scenes or in a studio, while he has found significant success as an entrepreneur in many different facets of the music business.

Twelve years of touring through North America have established Behm as a compelling live performer. To a rapidly growing number of fans around the globe, he is best known as a singer/songwriter of real melodic and lyrical intelligence. His versatile take on pop-rock has been showcased on seven albums, including 2008’s acclaimed Saving America and 2011 “Eargasm”.

Through 2009-2011, Behm has released a series of meticulously-crafted singles that have generated serious traffic on internet radio stations and music websites. Total plays of Behm tunes on numberonemusic.com now stand at 1.9 million, while 19 songs on the popular Jango site have notched 442,097 plays. Such singles as “If I Could Learn To Fly”, “Love’s Like Numbers,” and now “Where I Belong” have topped charts in Australia and Canada on such sites as mp3.au.com and Reverb Nation.

As a music business entrepreneur, Behm’s credentials are equally solid. He formed a sound company “Premier Productions” in the 1990s that provided live sound and lighting to 22 music clubs in Canada. He owned five successful live venues / clubs, including three in the Caribbean, and he still owns and operates popular Vancouver Island music club, Voodoo Lounge. He has promoted over 150 concerts, including such major-name acts as Nazareth, Nickelback and Default.

Behm’s first recording studio, Premier Studios, located in Vancouver, hosted recording artists from the U.S., U.K., and Europe, Australia and Japan while his current home studio, right on the ocean in Qualicum, British Columbia, is recognized as a true state of the art facility. Michael also is home at top-notch Vancouver studios The Warehouse, Mushroom, The Armoury, Oceanway Nashville, Blackbird Studios and, working closely with such highly-regarded engineers as Mills, Logan (Toby Keith Collective Soul), Mike Fraser (AC/DC, Metallica), Delwyn Brooks, Brian Gardner, Hank Williams, Bernie Grundman, Jeff Dawson and Ray Harvey

On the songwriting front, Behm’s talent has been recognized by songwriting guru Ralph Murphy (Crystal Gayle, Ronnie Milsap, Cliff Richards). A recent Murphy-Behm co-write, the gently pensive pop song “Where I Belong,” has quickly become a fan favourite. Behm and veteran songsmith Ron Irving recently collaborated on “It’s My Time,” a track that is now on hold with American Idol for one of the winners. “Hey You” with 17 year old Kate Morgan and Ron Irving released in Latin America through (Universal Mexico).

Michael Behm’s versatility as a songwriter, producer has certainly brought him attention in the world of music publishing. He has published hundreds of songs in the last two years, and highly notable movie and TV sync placements are virtually happening each day,with such networks as MTV and Comcast. Thanks to a collaboration with affiliates in the UK, U.S. and Australia, Behm songs have been played in 20011 on Bravo “Flipping Out”, TLC “I didn’t Know I was Pregnant”, MTV (UK) “Moving In”, MTV “I Use To Be Fat”, Discovery “Track Me If You Can”, Food Network “The Best Thing I Ever Eat”, Oxygen The Bad Girls Club” two episodes, CBS “Let’s Make A Deal”, Food Network “Ace Of Cakes”, TV Guild American Idol Rewind 12 plays, Fox, E “The Spin Crowd, Travel Channel, MTV (UK), AMTV, NDR Fluch der Ostsee, E “The Spin Crowd” Speed Network “NASCAR”, a Behm co production track, ‘Living In The Moment,” will be featured in upcoming Disney feature A Fairy Tale. He was also recently commissioned to provide four authentic sounding ACDC songs for the soundtrack to a film biography of AC/DC singer Bon Scott.

Behm reports “Once you create something that’s great and that encapsulates a certain genre, there will always be a use for it. My music is available in many different platforms. The advantage I have is that I can quickly come up with music for any application. I can create it myself and in cooperation with other producers-that I work with.”

Behm has expanded his reach for 2010-2011 developing and producing international artists such as the smash single “Family Matters” for country artist Angela Harris. Behm co-wrote, sang and produced “Cross Your Heart” for Canadian artist Sydney James. Behm says “I played all the instruments but bass” on the playful Universal release “Hey You” by Lilith Fair featured artist Kate Morgan. “Also I have been producing this amazing country band called “Chaps” the are from England and we just signed two songs “One Straight Road” and “Pensacola” to “A list publisher” Rex Benson he is pitching for us to Keith Urban and Rascal Flatts and many other potentials. The songs were picked from 3200 song submissions validating Behm’s production team and his hard work

Michael Behm just returned from meetings in France at Midem and Pop Komm in Berlin Germany, where he signed multiple sub-publishing deals  for Germany, Russia, UK, Portugal, Italy, Austria, Switzerland, Hungry, Ireland, South Africa, Australia and New Zealand, Japan, China and Asia Pacific. While in France Behm was interviewed for midem TV http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=08O5ADo1SXQ and is frequent panelist at music industry conferences and seminars, continually expanding and refining his diverse skills and worldwide contacts.

For more information, Contact: www.MichaelBehmMusic.com