Real name: Eric Michael Stewart

Effective period / Period of releases: 1980 - 2009

Eric Michael Stewart (born 20 January 1945, Droylsden, Lancashire, England) is an English multi-instrumentalist, singer/songwriter, record producer, and film score composer most known for his tenure with The Mindbenders in the 1960s (1963-1968), and 10cc from 1972 to 1995. He was also the co-founder and co-owner of Strawberry Studios in Stockport, England from 1968 to the early 1980s. In 1990 Stewart participated as a guest vocalist on the last The Alan Parsons Project's album "Freudiana" (1990) and later on Alan Parsons' "Try Anything Once" (1993) and "On Air" (1996). In the 2000s Stewart returned to recording solo albums.