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Michael graduated from BYU in Marketing Communication with a minor in music. He is from Salt Lake City, Utah and served a full-time LDS mission in the California Santa Rosa Mission. Michael enjoyed teaching seminary for a semester at Mountain View High School in Orem, Utah. He loved working as a counselor for the Especially For Youth program for five summers.

Michael is perhaps best known as the composer of the EFY Medley: As Sisters In Zion & We’ll Bring the World His Truth, sung by nearly a half of a million youth since 1999 at the Especially for Youth program, and sung by hundreds of thousands more in church congregations around the world, including seminary graduations, mission farewells, temple dedication celebrations, youth conferences in Lithuania, Australia, Japan, China, Canada, the United Kingdom, throughout South America, and more.

Michael has contributed other arrangements of hymns for EFY CDs, including I Know That My Redeemer Lives, I Believe In Christ, Lord, I Would Follow Thee, and Let Us All Press On.

Michael has produced 7 of his own CDs, his latest being called Hymn Creations.

When he is not writing music, Michael enjoys spending as much time as he can with his family. He currently lives in Salt Lake City, Utah with his wonderful wife Natalie, daughter, and son.","created_at":"2015-02-24T01:16:39.632-07:00","updated_at":"2022-06-23T13:03:00.591-06:00","meta_title":"","meta_description":"","meta_keywords":"","depth":1,"producer":true,"searchable":true,"popularity":29},"imageSrc":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/db-paperclip/app/public/spree/taxons/18290/original/Michael_R_Hicks.jpg?1556908597","camelizeProps":true}