Todd Michaels
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Todd Michaels is a national radio personality and entertainer.
Todd Michaels has a new morning radio show called "The Wound-Up Wake-Up with Todd Michaels" that airs weekday mornings through Dial-Global 24/7 Digital Formats, based in the Los Angeles, CA area. http://www.dial-global.com. The show is fun, topical, and there's a mix of uptempo rhythmic, pop and dance hits, as it's part of the Dial-Global Rhythm Mix AC format. Some of the same characters from Todd's former country and Hot AC shows are on "The Wound-Up Wake-Up," but there's some new ones, too.
Until mid-January 2007, Todd Michaels was heard weeknights on some 40 country music radio stations across the U.S. with his "wound up" show "Todd Michaels Tonight." It was part of the Dial-Global 24/7 Digital Formats' Hot Country format, based in the Los Angeles, CA area. http://www.dial-global.com
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[edit] Birthplace, Education
Todd Tanner-Michaels was born Michael Shawn Coleman in St. Louis, Missouri on March 5, 1964. He was adopted not long after his birth and his new parents changed his name. Todd grew up in the South County suburb of the city and attended Mehlville High School. Later, Todd attended Culver-Stockton College in Canton, Missouri where he studied journalism/communications/broadcasting and music.
[edit] "Saturday Night '80s" show and other radio stints
Todd Michaels hosted the nationally-syndicated weekly radio program "Saturday Night '80s" from March 2005-November 2006. The show was syndicated first by Westwood One, then part of a sale to Dial-Global 24/7 Radio.
Todd continues to work with legendary radio personality Rick Dees, writing the Hot Adult Top 40 version of the Rick Dees Weekly Top 40 countdown, a weekly syndicated radio show. For a brief period in late 2005, Todd also helped produce a nightly syndicated radio show for Leeza Gibbons.
Todd Michaels was the evening host for 14 months on St. Louis country radio station 92.3 WIL-FM after winning the job in a Survivor/American Idol type contest during summer 2003.
Todd Michaels has been heard on local radio stations in Los Angeles, Sacramento, Las Vegas and St. Louis. He was nominated for a Radio Music Award for his work in 2000.
Todd's first stint as an air personality was at a small commercial station named KQ-102 (KQCA-FM) in Canton, Missouri/Quincy, Illinois. It was a Top 40 station, and Todd was on the air weekends for two years while he attended college.
[edit] As Seen On TV
Todd appeared as a contestant on The Price Is Right in February 2005. He won $1,000 spinning the big wheel in the Showcase Showdown, then went on to overbid and lose the showcase in the gameshow televised on CBS.
Todd appeared as a recurring bartender and waiter named "Todd" on the CBS-TV soap The Young and The Restless in 1990-91.
Todd was a contestant on TV's Star Search in late 1988, and sang on the show. Though he did not win, Todd met ample contacts during his short stay in Hollywood, and decided to move there permanently later that year. Todd wrote and recorded numerous pop/rock/dance songs and worked with some of the top producers on the West Coast at the time.
[edit] "The Rocky Horror Show," "Chippendales," "J-Men"
Todd Michaels (Todd Tanner-Michaels) was cast as "Rocky" in the 1993 North American Tour of The Rocky Horror Show. Originating in New York City, the production recreated the original live stage version of Richard O'Brien's classic sexy, fun sci-fi horror film classic.
Todd was a singer and dancer in national and international tours with Chippendales in 1991 and 1995. The live shows were top-notch stage productions featuring music, dancing and of course lots of scantily clad muscular guys. The tours went throughout the U.S. and U.K.
Todd also sang and performed in J-Men, a Chippendales-like troupe of American men exclusive to Tokyo and Fukuoka, Japan in 1995.
[edit] Early Years as a singer and model
Between 1985-86, Todd led a pop band named Think Twice that was based in St. Louis. The group's music was featured on St. Louis' Top 40 radio station 103.3 KHTR-FM.
Todd was one of 12 guys featured in the 1986 St. Louis Crackerjack Calendar, an annual beefcake calendar of men in the Midwest. Wearing a white t-shirt with "Choose Life" printed on it, Todd was the hunk of November 1986.
During 1987, Todd was the lead singer of a Canadian pop/rock band The Future. The four-man group had moderate success with a single titled "Even In My Dreams," and opened for the pop act Glass Tiger that year.
In 1988, Todd (Todd Tanner-Michaels) was invited to sing on the hit television series Star Search. Todd moved permanently to Los Angeles not long after.
[edit] Hobbies
Todd loves school buses, and even drove a real one for a few seasons before moving to L.A. Todd has said his favorite school buses are older models made by Carpenter Body Works, Wayne Corporation and Blue Bird Corp. bus body companies. He has a collection of old school bus photos and literature.
Todd also enjoys model railroading and miniature model aircraft.
