Mike Mennard

Who is Mike Mennard?

Born in 1967 in Ft. Worth, Texas, Mike Mennard is a children's recording artist based in Lincoln, Nebraska. The following was obtained from Mike's biography.

Mike was painfully shy until is mother coaxed him out of his shell with an ice cream scoop. Handing Mike the utensil as she cooked supper, she told Mike to pretend it was a microphone and entertain her. He did. For hours that night—and for countless nights, thereafter—Mike performed silly songs and poems to his mother. It's safe to say that Mike came out of his shell, and decades later it’s difficult to imagine Mike as anything but a performer. But he claims that that shy little boy still lives inside, which helps him to relate to children—shy ones, as well as not-so-shy ones—better.

Throughout the 1990s, Mike performed contemporary gospel music extensively throughout the United States. He produced two recordings with Eden Records, "Grace" and "Life With a View." But Mike’s first musical love has been children’s music—or as Mike calls it, “family music.” He incorporated his “family music” in all of his gospel concerts until soon those songs became his most requested.