Music Style remo rock (reflective modern rock)

Musical Influences U2, Radiohead, Elvis Costello

Artist History The typically arid Arizona air was filled with close to 80,000 voices, each screaming out in response to Bono’s question, poised with his lilting Irish accent, “Who wants to play my red guitar?” On this January night in 1989, U2 was wrapping up their North American Joshua Tree tour with two sold out nights at Tempe, AZ’s Sun Devil Stadium, performances which would be immortalized in the U2 rockumentary “Rattle and Hum”. As had been the case on each night of the tour, Bono posed this question before inviting a random audience member on stage to accompany this legendary Irish rock band during their inspired rendition of Curtis Mayfield’s gospel favorite “People Get Ready”. A lone voice amidst thousands, Michelangelo Caggiano remembers an inexplicable and urgent desire to grab the red guitar and join the band. And while it would not be Michelangelo who joined the band on this evening, the experience triggered a desire in his heart which has driven him through nearly a decade of musical ministry. Now, some ten years after this first desire to perform, Michelangelo’s guitar is not red, but it has certainly been busy. Shortly after this experience, Michelangelo formed one of the west’s premier alternative Christian rock bands, Michelangelo and The Difference. The band’s self-described style of “remo rock” (short for reflective modern rock) is a creative hybrid of the musical inventiveness of bands like U2 and Radiohead with the lyrical and spiritual acuity of artists like Elvis Costello.. In the decade since that U2-inspired epiphany one desert night, Michelangelo and The Difference have shared stages with luminaries like DC Talk and The Newsboys while their CD releases, “Mercy Suit” and “UnderRower”, have garnered fans throughout the world as they have been distributed throughout the United States, Canada, and Europe by some of the biggest players in the music industry: Warner Electric Alliance (WEA), Alliance, and BMG. But these ten years have not been spent trying to become world-famous “rock stars”. "Everything's worth it when we see individuals tune deep into what's being said at our shows,” says Michelangelo. "Many times we have prayed with kids and adults who were hurting and needed someone to lead them to a personal relationship with God.“ The band has also toured incessantly playing over one hundred engagements a year at venues ranging from church basements and crowded coffeehouse to some of the biggest Christian festivals in the country: the Cornerstone and TOM Festivals. Most recently, on May 13, 2000, Michelangelo released his latest CD offering, aptly and abruptly titled, “michelangelo acoustic ep”, through Worthless Records. The five-song disc is described by Michelangelo as “an album about hurting, healing, and coming home”. The CD’s poetic lyrics draw the listener into songs that delve into the vulnerable issues of broken hearts, searching for truth and rest. Included on the album are three of Michelangelo’s most recently written songs, “Precious Rose”, “Ocean”, and “Say That You’ll Say”, as well as a newly re-recorded version of the MaTD classic “Daddy”. This last song is typical of the vulnerability, emotional depth, and, ultimately, spiritual hope offered through Christ that Michelangelo is attempting to communicate through “michelangelo acoustic ep”. Says Michelangelo of the song, “This is a prayer that I would encourage anyone to pray when they are needing comfort from God. Life is too short to try to heal a broken heart on your own.” The CD’s final track is an awe-filled, hope-inspiring spoken word track called “Walking Home” which brings the CD to its climactic conclusion. “I’ve wrestled enough today…I’m walking home…”

Albums "Rivers of Blood", "Mercy Suit", "UnderRower", "The Rage vol. I", "The Rage vol. 2.0", "michelangelo acoustic ep"

Location Phoenix, Arizona - USA

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