Gavin Mikhail is a nearly 35 years old American composer, pianist and singer-songwriter from Nashville, Tennessee.Mikhail was born in West Lafayette, Indiana. Coming from a family where much emphasis was placed on the arts, Mikhail began studying classical piano and pipe organ by age seven and began performing at weekly church services by age ten.
He continued to perform and compete throughout the next eleven years until, turning his attention to mainstream music, he spent the next four years at Purdue University, in West Lafayette, performing in bands as lead vocalist and keyboardist while pursuing a degree in finance.
Graduating in 1995, he moved to Nashville to begin a career in the music industry.
His debut album My Personal Beauty Needs released Mikhail in 2003 independently and immediately began work on his follow-up album Like Normal People Do.
The winner of the 2007 "Lay It Down and Mix It Up in the UK" fan-vote contest has released more than 30 albums and singles independently.
In early 2008, Mikhail was featured as an "internet sensation" by Billboard magazine in its "Underground" video series.
In April 2009 his new album includes his piano-based cover of alternative-rock band Death Cab for Cutie's song "I Will Follow You into the Dark". The song and associated video later went on to become a YouTube hit and was viewed very, very often.
In 2011, Mikhail's friend Ruta Sepetys asked him to compose an original piano soundtrack to her New York Times bestselling novel Between Shades of Gray, which Mikhail released in 2011.
