Shoshana Michel is an American pianist based in Brooklyn, New York.

Classically trained from when a child, Michel discovered ragtime while in high school when the movie “The Sting” came out and was instantly hooked. She started her professional music career at the age of 17 playing honky-tonk/ragtime piano at Shakey’s Pizza Parlors and the following year was hired by Knott’s Berry Farm in Buena Park, California, as a ragtime pianist in their new Roaring 20’s section.

Subsequently, she fell in love with New Age solo piano music in 1990, listening to and playing music by pianists David Lanz, Suzanne Ciani, Jim Chappell and others. Read more on Last.fm. User-contributed text is available under the Creative Commons By-SA License; additional terms may apply.