Michael "Mike" Viola is an American singer-songwriter best known as singer, songwriter and the "musical architect" of a team he called the "Candy Butchers," a highly regarded pop-rock band from New York City that recorded three critically-acclaimed albums for Sony, including Hang On Mike, which, when he released it in 2003, soon became a favorite of his fans. A native of Stoughton, Massachusetts, Mike began his musical career in the 1980s.

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  • Michael "Mike" Viola is an American singer-songwriter best known as singer, songwriter and the "musical architect" of a team he called the "Candy Butchers," a highly regarded pop-rock band from New York City that recorded three critically-acclaimed albums for Sony, including Hang On Mike, which, when he released it in 2003, soon became a favorite of his fans. A native of Stoughton, Massachusetts, Mike began his musical career in the 1980s. No recordings of his earliest musical work, however, were known to have been released, or even to exist, as of September 2009. The success of the Candy Butchers in the 1990s, the earliest known decade when recordings of his work existed, led to multiple appearances on Late Night With Conan O’Brien and Last Call With Carson Daly. It also found the group touring alongside the likes of They Might Be Giants, Robyn Hitchcock, Semisonic, Sparklehorse, Barenaked Ladies, and Ivy. Viola simultaneously began a career in film work as the co-producer and lead singer of the Oscar-nominated title track from That Thing You Do! Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story, a film collaboration between Jake Kasdan and Judd Apatow that starred John C. Reilly as Dewey Cox, featured nearly a dozen songs written by Viola. A satire and send-up of the Hollywood music bio-pic, Walk Hard proved to be an appropriate playground for Viola’s subversive, witty lyrics and catchy-pop expertise. Viola joined the ranks of "indie," or independent-record-label, artists in 2005 when he released an album of new songs on his own label, Good Morning Monkey Records. Recorded live at Largo in L.A. , Just Before Dark showcased Mike's abilities as a live performer. Once he made it available on his website, MikeViola. com, the album, which he released only as a long-playing vinyl album, sold out in three months. His most recent album, Lurch, employed classic pop elements, and incoerporated storybook imagery, such as Viola’s fans had come to expect by this time in his career. Lurch was also released internationally, with such selections as “Maybe, Maybe Not” (the first selection on the album) and “So Much Better” (the first single Viola released from the album) receiving radio airplay in Denmark. "So Much Better" was a Danish chart selection. After signing a contract with EMI Music Publishing for worldwide distribution of his own material, Viola remained a prolific songwriter and/or producer on a multitude of projects. His work could be heard on Amanda Leigh, the most recent of Mandy Moore's albums as of September 2009. In addition to being Moore's musical director, Viola collaborated with Inara George, Tim Christensen, Dan Bern, Steve McEwan, Kelly Jones, Ryan Adams, Drake Bell, Bleu, Adam Schlesinger, John C. Reilly, Mary Wood, Sam Bisbee, The Gentlemen, John Wesley Harding, and Ben Romans during this period.
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  • Michael "Mike" Viola is an American singer-songwriter best known as singer, songwriter and the "musical architect" of a team he called the "Candy Butchers," a highly regarded pop-rock band from New York City that recorded three critically-acclaimed albums for Sony, including Hang On Mike, which, when he released it in 2003, soon became a favorite of his fans. A native of Stoughton, Massachusetts, Mike began his musical career in the 1980s.
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