Immortal - Music

CCM Singer/songwriter Michelle Tumes Was Born In Mt Gambier - A Small Town In South Australia And Began Studying Piano At The Age Of Four. While In Her Teens She Enrolled In A Two-Year Classical Piano Program An Experience Which Left Her So Disillusioned About Performing That She Instead Turned To Studying Dentistry. At That Point Her Little Sister Gave Tumes $40 She Had Saved From Her Paper Route In Order To Convince Her Older Sibling To Cut A Demo She Agreed Sending The Tape Unsolicited To A Variety Of Publishing Companies. Offers Quickly Poured In And After Signing A Songwriting Deal With An Australian Publisher She Relocated To The U.S. Soon Authoring Jaci Velasquez's CCM Chart-Topper "If This World." Tumes' Attempts To Mount A Solo Career Initially Met With Frustration But She Eventually Signed With The Sparrow Issuing Her Debut LP Listen In 1998 And Earning A Major Hit With The Single "Please Come Back." Center Of My Universe Followed In Early 2000. ~ Jason Ankeny All Music Guide From Her Yahoo Page Http //music.Yahoo.Com/ar-272279-Bio--Michelle-Tumes After Her 2001 Album "Dream" Tumes Parted Ways With Sparrow Records. She Worked On Several Collaboration Albums And Wrote For Other Artists Disney Radio’s Jump 5 And The Italian Tenor Alessandro Safina Went Back To School To Study Ancient History And Literature And Secured A Publishing Deal With Warner/Chappell. In The Summer Of 2006 Michelle Tumes Announced On Her Myspace Website She Was Working On A New CD On The Label Leventar/Infinity A Self-Titled Album That Was Released November 14. She Has Announced Her Intentions To Tour In 2007. read less