Mike Viola

Mike Viola fascinates me as a study in influence without spotlight. As a producer, songwriter and musician he has shaped records for Panic! at the Disco, Andrew Bird, Ryan Adams, Mandy Moore and Jenny Lewis, and slipped his fingerprints onto soundtracks like That Thing You Do! and Walk Hard. The Stoughton native built a career on making other artists sound like their best selves, which is a generosity I find rare in music. I tend to admire the people in the credits more than the names on the marquee, and Viola is exactly that kind of quiet architect whose taste echoes through songs you already love.

Name (English)

Mike Viola

Name (Japanese)

マイク・ヴァイオラ

Reading

まいく・ゔぁいおら

Born

September 26, 1966 (age 59)

Zodiac / Chinese zodiac

Libra / Horse

Origin

Stoughton, Massachusetts, United States

Occupation

songwriter / musician / singer-songwriter

• Official sitehttps://www.mikeviola.com/
• Instagramhttps://www.instagram.com/themikeviola/
• Wikipedia (English)https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mike%20Viola
• Wikipedia (Japanese)https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%83%9E%E3%82%A4%E3%82%AF%E3%83%BB%E3%83%B4%E3%82%A1%E3%82%A4%E3%82%AA%E3%83%A9
• Wikidatahttps://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q6849172

Tags

• Massachusetts
• songwriter
• musician
• singer-songwriter

Last updated

2026-06-21

Facts are limited to publicly available information up to 2024; non-public or unconfirmed items are omitted. English text is machine-assisted (facts translated by Sonnet, "My Take" written by Opus 4.8). The Japanese page is the source of record.