Michael K.

While Michael’s passions have varied over the years, music has always be his deepest. A teen exploring everything life had to offer, the 16-year-old New Yorker from The Bronx realized his vocal and instrumental talent when his high school friend started a band.

Since then Michael fell in love with the art of music, and it has truly become a part of his identity. When asked why he co-founded a music collective, he responds, "There's so much real talent in this world, and yet much of it remains undiscovered becuase of greed and competition. I try to bring people together to spread joy with their passion."

If there is a single phrase that can summarize his essence, it is one spoken by Lorenzo Anello (played by Robert Dinero) to his son Calogero Anello (played by Francis Capra) in the '93 coming-of-age crime film A Bronx Tale: “The saddest thing in life is wasted talent.”