Michael Austin

About Michael

Michael Austin calls himself a real-life hillbilly. He grew up in Missouri, sang his first bar gig at seven years old in Warsaw, Mo. — a guitar player paid him ten dollars to get up and do Kenny Rogers' "Coward of the County" — and spent his weekends singing with a marina band before he was old enough to drive.

Service came first: a tour in the U.S. Air Force, then years as a deputy sheriff in California. Music caught back up in 2013, when he was picked out of roughly 19,000 hopefuls at the Los Angeles auditions for Season 4 of NBC's The Voice and landed on Team Adam. His debut album Neon Halo went on to chart in more than 25 countries; The Good Life followed with "God, Guns and Country Music" and the title track, and he spent 21 dates on the road with Ted Nugent, who calls him a blood brother. The singles have kept coming — "American Dream", "Take Control", "The Fusion" and "Be The One".

Now represented for live booking by The Joseph Henry Agency, Michael is available for festivals, fairs, casinos, veterans' and patriotic events, motorcycle rallies, corporate and private events and radio shows.