Michael Hardie is first and foremost a writer with a global view who always lets his Texas roots shine through his music. The story of Texas native, Michael Hardie, began in 1991 when Wolfgang Doebling, editor of the German Rolling Stone Magazine, heard his album “Houston Blues” and invited him to Berlin for the B.I.D. music conference. Moving to the east part of Berlin in June 1992 was the beginning of a wanderlust that found him going back and forth from Texas to Berlin for the next 2 decades. When Michael reached Berlin he had already spent 20 years defining his craft. He began in Houston, TX in the early ‘70’s at age 19 where he opened for Blues Legend Lightnin’ Hopkins. This led to 10 years in Los Angeles where he opened for Buddy Guy and Junior Wells in 1987 at the Long Beach Blues Festival. He spent most of his time in the studio recording his songs with musicians like Jesse Ed Davis. Throughout the years Michael has lived in every major music capital in the U.S. (NY, LA, Nashville & Austin) and has recorded his original songs with greats such as Chuck Rainey, Stephen Bruton and Milton Hopkins (cousin of Lightnin’). Milton became a lifetime friend and mentor for Michael and they would go on to record two Blues albums of Michael’s original music, “Houston Blues” (1991) and “Waiting For Perfection” (2008), which got on the ballot for the Grammy nomination. His latest album “Real”(2014) reached #26 on the top 100 albums on the Americana Roots Charts in 2014.