Michael Troy:  Vocals, piano, organ and percussion.
Born in Waltham, Massachusettes.
Raised in Scituate and Waltham Ma.

troy1.jpg (10126 bytes)Me in the 70's
getting a real taste 
of being a piano man.
Dig the outfits on my 
audience!

troyelton1.jpg (66354 bytes)At an Elton John 
concert in1976. 
T shirt mania! That's 
one of my friends 
behind me sick on 
Boone's Farm Apple 
Wine....or was it Tango?

troy4.jpg (10911 bytes)My early teen years
and my first promo 
shot.

The 1970's
  I am one of nine children, one up from the youngest. That alone can give you some idea of how many peanut butter and jelly  sandwiches my family went through. A 
lot of my existence as a child (besides the usual) was piano, singing, being a magician and The Planet Of The Apes. My brother and I actually made a super 8 movie 
depicting a scene from the movie. Our Mom let us use her brown winter gloves along with a store bought ape mask. 

   Music has always been in my family at some time or another. My Grandfather Murphy was in the music bizz in New York. He had his own radio hour and even did some recording. That is him singing on the hidden track on The Beloved Few debut CD. Ooops! It's no secret now. It's also him in the photo from the CD with The Babe standing next to him pretending to play trumpet. Yes, the real Babe Ruth! The photo was taken at The Russian Tea Room 
in New York city.  Hidden Track  (Real Audio)

 I started  taking  piano lessons at 8 years old.  At 11 years old, I ended up onstage for my BIG debut at the Waltham  Library  rocking  out  "Frere  Jacques." Offers poured in 
after that.

troy2.jpg (96392 bytes)Pinned, poised, performing and pondering at the same 
time.
nigeltroy2.jpg (62999 bytes)With one of my idols...
drummer Nigel Olsson of
Elton John's band.

 

 

In the 1980's I hooked up with a local producer/studio  owner named Mitch Bennoff. The studio was the now defunct, Downtown Recorders." I recorded many of my  songs with Mitch and recorded many tracks with many 
different musicians as guest players.

At this time I had entered several songs of my own  in some national contests and won! I placed first in the Billboard Magazine Song Festival with my song "Kayleigh." A young drummer named David Stefanelli  played on it.

  I continued to work playing piano bar and writing and  recording. A lot of local and national  radio and TV voiceover spots were offered to me at this time which meant money and some recognition so I took 'em all. From "Chevy of America" to "The Mall Of New 
Hampshire" with Burgess Meredith.


In my early teen years I was a radio addict like everyone else but I was effected more by music than your usual kid. With all my older siblings in front of me, I was exposed to quite a bit of cool music before my time. This was about the time I heard two artists that would end up molding me into what I have become  today as far as my musical styles go. These two very important artists were Elton John 
and Billy Joel.

 1989: I continued to work with different people in the studios of Boston. I worked with both Keith Diamond of Billy Ocean fame and Greg Hawkes and Ben Orr of The Cars.  Actually, Ben has recently used a song of mine called "Right Across The River." At this point several other songs that I co wrote with other artists were used on such TV shows as Melrose Place, Pacific Heights and The Young And The Restless.

The 90's were spent working and writing and then forming The Beloved Few with David. We've got lots of plans for more recordings/films  and our new radio show from our site.

I have kind of lived my life in the key of F# with a corrected fifth...and that's just the verse......
I can't wait for the chorus.