Michael Sweet (born 4 July 1963) is a singer from Cathedral City, California. Sweet is best known as co-founder, writer and frontman of the Christian metal band Stryper. He is also one of the two co-lead vocalists for Boston, the other being Tommy DeCarlo.
He began his musical career at age 5 playing guitar and at age 12 he began to sing. Sweet also learned to play the drums, piano and bass guitar. His interest in Christianity began when he was a...
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Michael Sweet (born 4 July 1963) is a singer from Cathedral City, California. Sweet is best known as co-founder, writer and frontman of the Christian metal band Stryper. He is also one of the two co-lead vocalists for Boston, the other being Tommy DeCarlo.
He began his musical career at age 5 playing guitar and at age 12 he began to sing. Sweet also learned to play the drums, piano and bass guitar. His interest in Christianity began when he was a boy in which he bugged his parents every weekend to take him to church.
In the early 80s, Sweet and his brother Robert started a band called Roxx Regime and started playing in small venues. This band would later become Stryper. The band challenged the stereotype of Heavy Metal being satanic and took Christian rock fully into mainstream.
With the band, Sweet recorded five successful studio albums that reached gold and platinum status and won him many awards, plus worldwide fame. However, in the early 90s, rock music was facing serious shifts...
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