Michael Sterling is an American composer and musician from Miami, Florida

History

His musical career started in his teens when he played bass guitar for popular Latino recording artist Ray Fernandez. Soon afterwards, Sterling and two childhood friends formed the group Silver Platinum, who quickly scored a hit on the R&B charts with their single Dance. He then went on to play lead guitar and sing as a member of the Grammy award winning reggae band Inner Circle. Inner Circle, well known for their hit Bad Boys.

As a Solo Artist

After touring with Inner Circle, Sterling returned to Miami and began his career as a solo artist. During this time, he started his own record label TSOM Records, where he produced hits for local artists 2 Live Crew

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, MC Shy D, JT Money

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 and others. He also served as musical director for BMG recording artist Blu Cantrell

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.

His first album, The Artist, which contains 'Desperate' in 1983 and 'Nite Club 69' in 1985 didn't generate much attention. He first struck big time stardom with his second album, No Such Animal, in 1987 produced the songs, 'One More Chance', 'Is It Still Good To Ya' and the timely socially conscious theme song, 'Holiday'. The song, Cheating While She's Wearing My Ring, received a lot of airplay on the video channels (Its not on the album though). His voice is known for its trademark slight sweet and soft falseto sound.

Later years

During the 1990s and 2000s, Sterling maintained a low profile, while still releasing albums and producing. He still garners rave reviews and fans worldwide.

In 2005, Usher

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, Ludacris

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 and Lil' John and the East Side Boyz covered his Lovers and Friends (song) from his 1990 album Trouble

Trouble (Michael Sterling album)

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. The song was released on the quadruple platinum album Crunk Juice

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 and was the winner of two BMI Billboard awards including ‘Hip Hop Song of the Year'. In 2006, his song Bedroom Boom was covered by The Ying Yang Twins feat. Avant

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on the platinum Ying Yang CD U.S.A.

On November 17, 2009, volume 1 of his new two volume album, Eyes Around My Heart was released online.

Albums

Album	Year	Label
The Artist	1983	Success/TSOM
No Such Animal	1987	TSOM
Trouble	1990	TSOM
Love for Your Heart	1991	MSMG
Trust	1994	MSMG
The Songwriter	1996	MSMG
Right Now	2002	MSMG
Eyes Around My Heart	2009	MSMG

Singles

Year	Single	Album
1983	"Desperate"	The Artist
1984	"Oral"
1985	"Nite Club 69"
1986	"Anette Please"
1987	"Cheating While She's Wearing My Ring"	Non-album single
	"No Such Animal"	No Such Animal
1988	"Is It Still Good to Ya"
	"One More Chance"
1990	"What Do You Do?"	Trouble
	"All Night and Always"
1991	"Lovers & Friends"
	"Love for Your Heart"	Love for Your Heart
1992	"If You Still Love Me"
	"Beautiful Smile"
1994	"Trust"	Trust
	"Falling for You"
	"Back to Blue"
2007	"Ghost"	Eyes Around My Heart
	"Baby, Where's Your Heart"
	"Girl It's on You"
2008	"Holiday"
	"Falling for You"
2009	"I'm Taking You Back"
	"Begging"

Discography with Inner Circle

Album	Year
One Way	1987
Identified	1991

Billboard (Writer/Composer)

Artist	Year/Album	Song	Position
Anquette	1988/Respect	I Will Always Be There For You	Peak #76
Usher/Lil John/Ludacris	2004/Crunk Juice	Lovers and Friends	Peak #3