High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Michael Lord is a songwriter, composer, producer and Indie recording artist. His 2004 release SWAY found an audience when his song Smile was chosen by the Apple iTunes Music Store as their Single of The Week. Other songs from SWAY including Bleed and Forgiven soon found their way into hit television shows such as ALIAS and What About Brian. He followed SWAY with a mini EP titled THE STRING SESSIONS reinterpreting the songs from SWAY acoustically with a string quartet. Michael wrote all string arrangements which were then performed by The Section Quartet. In 2005 Michael was hired by producer Desmond Child to arrange and record two songs for American Idol's Season 4 Showstoppers Album resulting in an RIAA Certified Gold Record. Following the American Idol success he has turned his attention to music production producing tracks for Quincy Coleman, Courtney Jaye, Paulina Gretzky and Stella Wake Up as well as writing songs for NBC's hit comedy My Name Is Earl.