Aside from his duties as VIT department head, Mike Campbell has maintained a busy career as a vocalist, including seven solo recordings as well as appearances with artists as diverse as Sarah Vaughn, Count Basie, Ella Fitzgerald, Henry Mancini, Nancy Wilson, Roger Miller, Bobby Darin, Petula Clark, The Supremes, the Mamas and the Papas, Quincy Jones, Joe Williams, Tuck & Patti, Benny Carter and the North Carolina Symphony. He has recorded with Nancy Wilson, Donald Byrd, and Brazilian composer Moacir Santos, with whom he co-wrote the title track for Carnival of the Spirits. He has contributed his vocal talents to numerous jingles, TV and movie soundtracks, and has performed on over forty television shows, including Ed Sullivan, Jerry Lewis, Red Skelton and Roger Miller. He has served on the Board of Governors of NARAS and is a member of AFof M, SAG., and AFTRA. As an educator, before coming to VIT Mike was chairman of the vocal department at the renowned Grove School of Music for ten years and has presented vocal clinics worldwide. He has done two vocal instructional videos for Warner Bros. and written Sight Singing: The Complete Method for Singers (MI Press/Hal Leonard) and Harmony Vocals (with Tracee Lewis). Mike appears in the 2005 Who's Who Among American Teachers and was named one of the "The 500 Greatest Jazz Singers of All Time" in Scott Yanow's book of the same title. Specialties: Jazz vocals and interpretation.
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