Michael Barber

Michael Barber is an American musician signed to Universal Records through Hoopla Media Group. Barber is best known for inventing the Messy Music genre that mixes all types of current genres to create his own. Barber has been credited with working in the studio or on marketing campaigns for people such as Nas, Akon, D'Angelo, Nappy Roots, Kia Shine, The Wu Tang Clan, Rza and Static Major to name a few. Michael has also released poetry and music under aliases, Determined, Indiana Smokey Bones, and The Irish Jesus or the Jesus. Michael Barber was born in Evansville, Indiana to an Irish, Catholic middle class family. As a child he listened to his mother play the piano, and he wrote his first album at 14 over tracks of Frank Sinatra, The...