Michael Sembello was born in Philadelphia in 1954. A talented songwriter, guitar player and vocalist, he started his career joining Stevie Wonder's band in the first seventies. Later on a became a well known session player for the likes of Sergio mendes, the Jackson 5, Stephen Bishop, Randy Crawford, David Sanborn and many others.

In 1983 he released his first solo record entitled Bossa Nova Hotel and scored a big chart success with the song Maniac. After this big break, he collaborated as writer/producer with many big names like Chaka Khan, George Benson or Donna Summer.

In 1986 he recorded Without Walls. Michael returned to his fans' attention with the third solo in 1992 entitled Caravan Of Dreams. 1996 and 1997 were a couple of good years for Sembello's fans cause he recorded his fourth cd, Backwards In Time, collaborated with the group Brother Time as a guest vocalist and also was the leader of a new project called The Bridge.