Michael Antonio DeBernardin born on March 21st 1961 in Topeka, Kansas. He is currently working on developing songs for Mercury Rising and his first release titled 'Sketchbook'. Mike has played in various bands doing live shows and was well recieved by audiences across the midwest. Michael is an artist specifically oil painter as well as being a musican song writer. Also amoung other projects and talents he has worked on a short fiction story entitled 'An American Halloween Story'which was copywritten 2007 with the Library of Congress. He has had one poem published in 2007 with the International Library of Poetry and with Noble House of London.