Michael Sweet
Michael Harrison Sweet (born July 4, 1963) is an American musician, the co-founder, principal songwriter, guitarist, and lead singer of the heavy metal band Stryper. Spin has described him as "Stryper's vocalist and principal songwriter." He has also had a successful solo career, recorded with the supergroups Sweet & Lynch and Sunbomb, and served as singer and guitarist for Boston from 2007 to 2011.
Sweet sings in a tenor voice incorporating techniques such as vibrato; his vocal style was characterised as sounding like "Dennis DeYoung fronting a Christian glam metal band" by Ultimate Classic Rock, in their ranking of the Top 15 Hair Metal Singers from the hard rock bands that dominated the airwaves in the '80s.
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