The Mike Lewis Interview

My name is Mike Lewis. I was born in Spokane, WA in 1971. I have been married for 18 years and have 4 very wonderful children. I am a 37 year old Singer/Songwriter on the Blaze Records label. A Indy label from ohio with Sony connections. I am also a Songwriter/musician for G-Spot Productions. A R&B/Soul label from Boise, ID. I began playing guitar and writing songs at the age of 15. It was always just a hobby playing at private events for fun. I was inspired about 4 years ago when I met Steve Holy. We got to know each other pretty well although his sister Meg was really awsome. After spending the entire day with Steve. That night I was standing there at the stairs to the backstage watching him perform and talking with his sister I knew that was exactly what I wanted to do. I then purchased all the equipment needed to start recording my own songs. I was a printing pressman by day and a songwriter by night. The first year I began my career as a songwriter I found myself so wrapped up in my music. I spent 4 hours a night in the studio writing and all day Sundays. I calculated 2400 hours in the first year in my studio. My big song was when I was sitting in my studio one Sunday and I had this really great rhythm going and I just started kind of making up lyrics and came up with the “Taylor Swift” Idea. After I recorded the song and put it on myspace it just kind of took off. Taylor Swift fansites were playing it all over the place. I never thought the song would go crazy the way it did. Anyway I started getting all these lyricists asking me to help them. Being the kind of good hearted guy I am. I agreed to help them put music to their lyrics and co-write together. So we wrote about 6 songs together. Recently I feel I have been blessed by getting hooked up with Ray Stephenson a Sony signed writer. The same guy that wrote “Willie’s Guitar” and many more songs that have been recorded by 25 or so major singers including Steve Holy, Guy Clark and the Wilkinsons just to name a