Mike DelGuidice Biography

Mike DelGuidice is an American musician, multi-instrumentalist, singer, and songwriter, best known as rhythm guitarist and vocalist of Billy Joel’s band, and as the lead vocalist and pianist for the Long Island band Big Shot. For 15 years he played as Billy Joel cover artist and later joined Joel’s band at Joel’s invitation in 2013.

Read on for Mike DelGuidice Bio, Age, Wife, Net Worth, Band, First Wife, Education, Family, Parents, and more.

10 Quick Facts About Mike DelGuidice

Name: Mike DelGuidice

Age: 48

Birthday: March 9

Zodiac Sign: Pisces

Height: Around 5 feet 6 inches

Nationality: American

Occupation: Married

Marital Status: Married

Salary: Under review

Net worth: $3 Million

Mike DelGuidice Age

Mike DelGuidice was born on 9 March 1971 in the United States of America. Mike DelGuidice is 48 years old as of 2019.

Mike DelGuidice Education

Mike DelGuidice spent a lot of time watching Joel’s Live from Long Island concert video and hanging out in the music room at Miller Place High School where he practiced the songs of Joel, Elton John, and Paul McCartney. He started singing songs of Billy Joel in Miller Place High School’s vocal jazz band in the late 1980s.

Mike DelGuidice Parents

Mike DelGuidice was born in the United States of America to his mother who listened to Barbra Streisand music, and his father listened to Billy Joel and Chicago. He was 13 years old when he first started playing Joel’s music.

Mike DelGuidice Wife

Mike DelGuidice is happily married to his lovely wife Melissa Cartwright-Delguidice. Mike married his current wife Melissa Cartwright-Delguidice in a private wedding ceremony attended by close friends and family members. DelGuidice and his wife are blessed with two children, Colby DelGuidice and Noah DelGuidice. Mike DelGuidice Wife Melissa Cartwright-Delguidice has maintained a low profile away from the public media.

Additionally, he was previously married before he tied the knot to Melissa Cartwright-Delguidice. However, details about Mike DelGuidice’s first wife are not available. Nevertheless, Mike and his first wife have two more children together.

Mike DelGuidice Net worth

Mike DelGuidice has an estimated Net Worth of $3 Million as of 2020. This includes his assets, money, and income. His primary source of income is his career as a musician, singer, and songwriter. Through his various sources of income, DelGuidice has been able to accumulate a good fortune but prefers to lead a modest lifestyle.

Mike DelGuidice Measurements and Facts

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Mike DelGuidice Wiki

Full Names: Mike DelGuidice
Popular As: Mike DelGuidice
Gender: Male
Occupation / Profession: Musician, multi-instrumentalist, singer, and songwriter
Nationality: American
Race / Ethnicity: Mixed
Religion: Not Known
Sexual Orientation: Straight

Mike DelGuidice Birthday

Age / How Old?: 48
Zodiac Sign: Pisces
Date of Birth: 9 March 1971
Place of Birth: United States
Birthday: March 9

Mike DelGuidice Body Measurements

Body Measurements: Not Available
Height / How Tall?: Around 5 feet 6 inches (1.67 m)
Weight: Not Known
Eye Color: Black
Hair Color: Bald
Shoe Size: Not Available

Mike DelGuidice Family and Relationship

Father (Dad): Not Known
Mother: Not Known
Siblings (Brothers and Sisters): Not Known
Marital Status: Married
Wife/Spouse: Married to Melissa Cartwright-Delguidice.
Children: Colby DelGuidice and Noah DelGuidice.

Mike DelGuidice Net Worth and Salary

Net Worth: $3 Million
Salary: Under Review
Source of Income: Musician, multi-instrumentalist, singer, and songwriter

Mike DelGuidice House and Cars

Place of living: Bradenton, FL, US
Cars: Car Brand to be Updated

Mike DelGuidice Musician, multi-instrumentalist, singer, and songwriter

Michael DelGuidice started his music career performing in Long Island piano bars and saloons. He started singing songs of Billy Joel in Miller Place High School’s vocal jazz band in the late 1980s.

He struggled for many years to pay the bills pushing and performing his original music and finally releasing 2 music albums, Miller Place and My Street. In 2000, DelGuidice started the band Big Shot, which is a tribute to the music of Billy Joel.

Big Shot played their first gig at the Village Pub in Port Jefferson in the same year. With DelGuidice on lead vocals and piano, it drew big crowds from the start. By 2011, some of Big Shot’s members were burnt out from playing over 100 gigs a year.

DelGuidice’s solution was to call Joel’s long-time lead guitarist, Tommy Byrnes. Byrnes and Joel’s drummer since 2005, Chuck Burgi joined regular bassist Nick Dimichino, keyboardist Carmine Giglio and saxophonist John Scarpulla in filling out Big Shot’s lineup and DelGuidice continued to sing in concerts.

Having Joel’s band members Byrnes and Burgi in Big Shot in 2011 started the progression into the whole process of getting DelGuidice involved with Joel’s band. DelGuidice also writes his own music for his songs.

On August 4, 2015, DelGuidice was the opening act for Joel’s closing concert at Long Island’s Nassau Veterans Memorial Coliseum in Uniondale. Comedian Kevin James came out that night to play “Miami 2017”.

Months later, James texted DelGuidice to see if he had a song they could use as the theme to his CBS show Kevin Can Wait, DelGuidice sent over “Ordinary Guy,” a tune he wrote for a 2011 reality show about tribute bands that never made it to air.

James accepted the song for his show and was shot in Bethpage. On October 15, 2013, Joel came to listen to the rehearsal of DelGuidice at the Paramount Theater in Huntington. After noticing the dedication to Joel’s music, DelGuidice was asked by Joel himself to join his European tour of that year.

In 2013, DelGuidice joined the Billy Joel Band playing rhythm guitar and vocals. On June 24, 2016, DelGuidice performed with Big Shot at the Paramount Theatre in Huntington. Joel appeared at the show as a surprise guest.

On July 28, 2016, Big Shot teamed up with the Suffolk County Police Department to raise money through a concert named “Help Stop The Long Island Heroin Epidemic” at the Emporium in Patchogue, New York.

On August 9, 2016, DelGuidice performed the opera classic “Nessun dorma” for the first time with Joel at Madison Square Garden. Their second performance of the song there was held on 28 October 2016.

DelGuidice and John Mongiardo are working to release “Victoria’s Song”, an unreleased song by Doug Stegmeyer, a member of Joel’s band who committed suicide in 1995.

Mike DelGuidice Songs

One Step At A Time 2011
Until the End Miller Place · 2010
Mona Lisa 2017
Josie Miller Place · 2010
Days of Old Miller Place · 2010
Romantic Miller Place · 2010
Victoria’s Song 2014
Haunted Holiday Miller Place · 2010
Yeyo Miller Place · 2010
Holy Water Miller Place · 2010
Daydream Miller Place · 2010
Over and Over Again
Miller Place · 2010
Souvenir Miller Place · 2010

Mike DelGuidice Album

Miller Place

Mike DelGuidice Concerts

Fri, Aug 30 8:00 PM Huntington, NY
The Paramount
Sat, Aug 31 6:30 PM Rohrersville, MD
Big Cork Vineyards
Sat, Sep 7 11:00 AM Norwalk, CT
Norwalk Seaport Association
Fri, Oct 4 8:00 PM Fryeburg, ME
Fryeburg Fair Association

Mike DelGuidice Band

Mike Del Guidice is Billy Joel in Big Shot: The Ultimate Billy Joel Experience. Mike is so good at what he does, he even fooled Billy Joel! That’s right, Billy Joel could not tell the difference between his voice and the voice of Mike Del Guidice. Now that’s a compliment!

How did you come to the conclusion that a Billy Joel tribute show would work? Billy Joel is still out there performing, isn’t he? Yeah. I guess it was back in the year 2006 or so. I was thinking about what I wanted to do. I actually wanted to do a McCartney band.

I was going to call it Wings Over Long Island. I was going to do a Chicago band, which I ended up starting, called Beginning, which is still playing now, but I bailed out of that a couple of years after I started it.

Then finally I just settled on the fact that everybody told me I sounded like Billy a lot. I figured on Long Island I couldn’t really go wrong. I think if I was going to do any artist on Long Island, it would have to be Billy.

He’s the best. He’s one of my favorites. It was hard not to do it. Why would you consider starting a McCartney tribute band? I really liked the concept of being able to get up and play bass and not just be stuck behind a piano. So,

I really kind of wanted to explore that, but I was so kind of entrenched in the Billy Joel stuff already that it made so much sense to just do it. I never heard of anyone wanting to put together a McCartney tribute act. That’s different.

Yeah. It was gonna be more Wings stuff right after The Beatles. I was kind of going that route. Now the way the band’s going, we’re trying to do a bunch of stuff anyway. I’m getting to do a lot of that as well, as Billy Joel.

So, that’s kind of getting the best of everything. Was it expensive and time-consuming to get this band together? No. I mean not really. At this point in time, it was just a matter of finding a couple of guys to get it going and finding a room that wanted to try it.

And we ended up doing our first show at The Village Pub and it was a success right off the bat. We kind of got lucky with the fact that we really didn’t have to work that hard. Maybe people on the island were kind of starving for something like it.

They loved Billy, so I think it was an easy game to get into it in the sense that it didn’t cost that much. We kind of built up a following slowly. It was kind of there, right from the beginning. It just had to be cultivated a little bit.

Was it a hard sell to get musicians to join up with you? Yeah. It’s still hard. I kind of go through guys over the years. I go through quite a few band members and different changes and different spots, all basically trying to culminate to get to Billy’s guys, where we’re kind of getting now where we actually have a lot of Billy’s guys playing with us, which has been a real blessing.

That’s certainly a remarkable achievement. Yeah. It’s been really good. We actually got Billy’s OK last year to go ahead and use his band. He signed off on it and said it was fine. We’ve been a real fortunate.

You play over 120 concerts a year? Yeah. We get a pretty active schedule. It gets even more busy in the summertime. That’s where we kind of make up the ground. We usually average two shows a week.

Then in the summertime, we’re around four shows a week, sometimes five. We kind of bounce around a lot. We travel. That’s what I was going to bring up, this band has to travel. Yeah. We definitely do, more in the Summer than in the Fall.

In the coming year or the next year or two, I’m going to be pulling the business out of the bars more and just doing the concert halls and more of the shows. We’d rather do shows than bars. Bars, you have people with scattered attention, they want to dance.

It’s a whole different vibe than an actual sit-down concert. How can you make enough money with an act like this when you play a bar? The only way to make money in that respect is you gotta have a following.

Once you have a following you can demand the money. You can’t really demand any kind of money unless you draw people. We’ve been fortunate enough over the years to build up the following that’s allowed us to make the money and continue working steady, where some bands aren’t.

Honestly, it’s just been a blessing. I’m really grateful for it. You’ve actually performed with Billy Joel? I haven’t actually performed with him. He invited us down to do a soundcheck at Nassau Coliseum in 2002 when he was on the road with Elton John.

I guess he heard us over the phone. We were on a news show and he heard us over the phone. He was really impressed by it and called us up and asked us to come down to the Coliseum. We checked his equipment.

He gave us special treatment. The whole nine yards backstage. We got to hang out with him a bit. Really just a sweet guy. Very cordial. I’ll never forget that. He was definitely a stand-up guy. Had you met Billy Joel before that?

I had only met him at a party at Christmas, an Italian restaurant in Syosset where Billy Joel wrote (“Scenes from) An Italian Restaurant” about. I was walking in and he was walking in behind me.

That was the first time I got to meet him, but that wasn’t really official. The official meeting was in 2002. What an incredible feeling it must be for you to meet the guy you portray on stage.

Yeah, very surreal. It’s definitely something you don’t forget, you don’t take lightly, and you’re grateful for when it happens. People always ask “has he ever come down and sang with you or gotten up onstage?”

I always say “no, but it would be a blessing and an awesome thing if he did, but we don’t expect anything like that. We’re just happy to be working.” Do you try to look like Billy Joel onstage?

Absolutely not. We are so against mock bands. I’ve actually taken the “tribute act” out of the title of the band because I was just so tired of the labeling of it. I’ve never tried to look like him. I love his music.

I think he’s a great songwriter. He’s a great singer. And we try to do the music justice. Over the years it kind of becomes your own. You play it so much, you kind of do it your own way. I try to maintain his voice.

But at the same token, after a while, when you’ve done it so long, you just kind of put it on. It’s like putting on clothes. You’re not thinking about it as much. But I’ve been excited about doing some of his other material we’ve been adding to the set, playing the McCartney and Chicago and other stuff too.

We kind of made the band a little more global, so to speak. You’ve also recorded your own original material on a CD called “Miller Place”. Yeah. I’ve been doing that my whole life. The frustrating part of doing a tribute band or any kind of cover band is the fact you lose your own identity a bit.

I’m definitely at the point in my life where I spend more of my time writing and recording than I ever do performing Billy Joel. That’s kind of four or five hours a week. My whole life is really in the studio. Writing, recording, video editing, doing video work for the band.

It’s hard being trapped a bit, but you know what? It pays the bills, so it’s kind of the Catch 22 of the cover band syndrome. Do you ever tell audiences you also are an original artist? Yeah. my new CD is “My Street”.

It’s been selling really, really well. It’s been on sale for the last few Summers. “Miller Place” and “My Street”. They’re selling tremendously. We play at least two songs a show. We do meet-and-greets after the show.

We do autograph signings. We have lines of people wanting to buy the stuff. My stuff has definitely become an integral part of the show and it’s gonna be more a part of the show as years go by.

Frequently Asked Questions About Mike DelGuidice

Who is Mike DelGuidice?

How old is Mike DelGuidice?

Mike DelGuidice was born on 9 March 1971 in the United States of America. Mike DelGuidice is 48 years old as of 2019.

How tall is Mike DelGuidice?

Mike stands at an average height of 5 feet 6 inches (1.67 m).

Is Mike DelGuidice married?

Mike DelGuidice is happily married to his lovely wife Melissa Cartwright-Delguidice. Mike married his current wife Melissa Cartwright-Delguidice in a private wedding ceremony attended by close friends and family members. DelGuidice and his wife are blessed with two children, Colby DelGuidice and Noah DelGuidice. Mike DelGuidice Wife Melissa Cartwright-Delguidice has maintained a low profile away from the public media.

How much is Mike DelGuidice worth?

Mike DelGuidice has an estimated Net Worth of $3 Million as of 2020. This includes his assets, money, and income. His primary source of income is his career as a musician, singer, and songwriter. Through his various sources of income, DelGuidice has been able to accumulate a good fortune but prefers to lead a modest lifestyle.

Where does Mike DelGuidice live?

Mike is a resident of Bradenton, FL, Memphis, TN, USA, we shall upload pictures of his house as soon as we have them.

Is Mike DelGuidice dead or alive?

Mike is alive and in good health. There have been no reports of him being sick or having any health-related issues.

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