Born and raised in Detroit, Michigan, "Miguel Antonio Herrera" always knew he was concieved to be an entertainer. He grew up in the hispanic community of Detriot and his musical identity comes from his cultural and ethnic background.
Miguel began performing at an early age seizing every opportunity that presented itself to him. In his teenage years, he performed with a local popular Mexican Detroit dance troupe "Ballet Folklorico De Corktown", named after a popular area of Detriot. This dance troupe built an immpresive reputation for itself in Michigan and surrounding states. When Miguel wasn't touring with the dance company, he found time to win local talent shows and particapate in community festivals.
In 1988 Miguel drove to Los Angeles to fulfill his lifetime passion, working in music and entertainment. Upon his arrival in LA he immediatly secured contacts which brought him together with local up and coming songwriters, singing on their demos. Within a short time, energetic, suave yet positive performances captivated his diverse audiences from LA to San Francisco to Chicago to Detroit. Professional accomplishments led him to collaborate with popular contemporary Hispanic groups, "Banda Mochos", to mention one. This group project channeled into national and international radio and television exposure along with impressive sales and marketing, to major tours with popular latin groups like Los Fugetivos, Los Temerarios, Barrio Boyz and others. All this afforded Miguel the opportunity to broaden his professional repertoire.
Later solo, as an opening act, Miguel connected with Martha Reeves, The Miracles and other legendary acts with very positive feedback. For an entire year on a popular highly viewed Hispanic program similar to Star Search and American Idol in popularity, Miguel consecutively obtained first prize for best vocalist performance out of hundreds of performers on the show through out the year.
"Charisma, self confidence, belief in something more than what I thought before."
Themes of life I am ready to give song too......
Accept for continuing to cowrite a lot of my original material with some great composers.
In the last few years I chose to drop out of sight when it came to the stage and even out of sight so to speak.. A time to regroup, reflect and grow internally has been the next step to fulfilling my dreams.
Today on growing happiness, health, understanding and just being, are instilled in my mind and heart, that will forever grow my biggest success in life. And now I want to align them along side my other passion, entertainment. I am now open to get back up there where I belong, only this time for a much bigger and better purpose, "For the good of all."
