Mike Phillips

Name: Mike Phillips
Start: 2024-07-11T19:30:00-04:00
Location: City Winery Pittsburgh

Schedule

Thu Jul 11 2024 at 07:30 pm

UTC-04:00

Location

City Winery Pittsburgh | Pittsburgh, PA

City Winery Pittsburgh presents Mike Phillips live on stage Thursday, July 11th, 2024 8:00 PM
Dine during your show! Your tickets reserve your table for dinner and full bar service before and during the show. We suggest arriving when doors open 6:30 PM for the best dining experience.
World renowned saxophonist Mike Phillips is known as one of the most electrifying instrumentalists today. Mike is the first musician signed by Michael Jordan to the Nike Jordan
Brand, home of the Air Jordan, and is the only musician in the world to have recorded and toured with the legendary “Big Three” of American soul and pop music: Michael Jackson, Prince, and Stevie Wonder, not only as a member of the band, but as a featured soloist.
Mike toured for nearly two years as part of the band for ‘Michael Jackson The IMMORTAL Tour’ by Cirque du Soleil. And music superstar Prince knew what audiences around the world know... when Mike Phillips puts his saxophone to his lips, magic is about to happen.
Prince once quoted “I was offstage, listening to Michael Phillips take his solo. I was thinking ‘Wow, listen to those people responding, and all he’s doing is playing a saxophone.’ They can feel that what he’s doing is real. So many shows now...they are so dead. But here’s one man breathing into an instrument, and the whole room feels alive. It made me want to rise up to that level when I came back onstage.” Prince, Rolling Stone, 5/27/04
Phillips is no stranger to the professional sports world, as his version of the National Anthem during the 2016 NFC Championship game sent shockwaves all over the NFL deemed one of the best anthems ever done instrumentally and now is known as the “SAXTHEM”.
Mike has played three (3) halftime NFL shows with various artists and served as Music Director for the Super Bowl Gospel Celebration for two (2) consecutive years. Phillips also served as Musical Director and Host of the popular BET program “Lyric Café”. Mike Phillips’ other television performances have included the Grammys, the Soul Train Awards and as host of his own show “Mike’s World” on BET network channel Centric which thrilled millions of viewers. Mike's solo albums “You Have Reached Mike Phillips”, “Uncommon Denominator”, “M.P.3”, and “Pulling Off The Covers”, all debuted in the Top #5 on the Billboard Contemporary Jazz Albums Chart. Phillips’ latest release the self-entitled “Mike Phillips” album, landed #1 on Apple Music Top Albums-Jazz chart.
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