Mike Vlahopol

Mike was born in the winter of December 1970
.He started to play guitar when he was 15 and a half, when his father brought home a 7 string Russian guitar for 50 LEI (about 3 US dollars - old times 1985-1986). He started to learn guitar on his own due to the lack of books and teaching materials. After a year or so he started to make good friends between some of the best musicians in Romania when he was encouraged by them to make a band.
He started his first band during high school. First hard rock and later on, he
evolved to Heavy Metal and Progressive rock.
Only late
in 1996 "he got to the crossroads and met with the blues" when he was invited
to jam with some bands due to Christmas and the New Year's Eve.
Mike is an imposing man with remarkable stage presence, at 1.87 meters (aprox. 6 foot)
with a cool American look on stage. Due to his craziness, on stage Mike is
able to make people most of the times to stand up dance, jump on tables
and feel good. Having technical possibilities on rock, blues, funk and pop performances helped him over the years to become a regular fixture on Romanian television, radio and news papers as a figure of national celebrity.
He has appeared in feature articles, not only in the music press, but in the biggest news papers Romania has such as: Romania Libera, Evenimentul zilei, Evenimentul Muzical, National, Libertatea, Cotidianul, V.I.P. magazin, Capital, Vox Pop Rock and few others.
Some of the most happy earthly moments of Mikes life were when he personally met and spent personal time with:
Jennifer Batten (guitar player of Michael Jackson),
David Coverdale Whitesnake) and Steve Vai.
Jennifer and Steve have encouraged Mike to keep up the good work. He even had time to get some guitar technical input from them.
Even more Steve took time to sign Mikes Ibanez guitar with a screw driver (Steve really enjoyed doing that)
by Liviu Serbanescu - Editor in chief with
Evenimentul Zilei
Leading News Paper In Romania
. Over the
years Mike composed and wrote music for different major or minor Romanian
artists, did jingles for advertising companies, as well as composing
soundtracks for theaters and movies.
Please
visit Star Media Production on My Space to listen to 4 different demos,
different styles. For contacts or other details follow these links.



www.myspace.com/starmediaproduction
www.vlahopol.com
www.starmediaproduction.com
The Indianapolis Star news paper wrote about Mike Vlahopol before his arrival to the US
The Crossroads is part of the newest National Romanian Television - TVR2. Timpul Chitarelor is a new format which starts on 18th of April 2009 & and we are part of it.
We will soon come up with lot's of details and a specially dedicated page.
Marius Bodochi, Dan Cojocaru, Doru Ionescu, Solo & The Crossroads are the hosts of a very cool music show with live music & lots of guests. Stay Looney Tunned. ;o) Soon Pictures and videos from the show. more details at.
www.thecrossroads.ro