Mike Mead is an American

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 drummer.

Mead is primarily known for his work with Phil Keaggy

Phil Keaggy

Phil Keaggy is an American acoustic and electric guitarist and vocalist who has released more than 50 albums and contributed to many more recordings in both the contemporary Christian music and mainstream markets...

 on his late 1980s and early 90s rock and roll records Sunday's Child

Phil Keaggy and Sunday's Child

Phil Keaggy and Sunday's Child is the title of a 1988 album by guitarist Phil Keaggy, released on Myrrh Records and A&M Records simultaneously....

, Find Me In These Fields

Find Me In These Fields

Find Me In These Fields is the title of a 1990 album by guitarist Phil Keaggy, released on A&M Records.-Track listing:All songs are by Phil Keaggy, unless otherwise noted.# "untitled" – 0:19...

and Crimson and Blue

Crimson and Blue

Crimson and Blue is the title of a 1993 album by guitarist Phil Keaggy, released on Myrrh Records.Crimson and Blue found Phil Keaggy surrounded by old friends making new music, in an old Victorian cottage owned by Brown Bannister. The Dugout was in the middle of Music Row...

; Steve Taylor

Steve Taylor

Roland Stephen Taylor , is an American Christian singer, songwriter, record producer and film director.-Early life:Taylor, the eldest of three children, was born in Brawley, California. Taylor's father, Roland Taylor, was a Baptist minister. When Taylor was six years old, the family relocated to...

 on I Predict 1990

I Predict 1990

I Predict 1990 is the fourth album by singer/songwriter Steve Taylor. Lyrically, the album explores actions that exploit others to various ends from multiple perspectives. CCM magazine found that the overall theme is that the ends never justify the means. It was released as a one-off on Myrrh...

and Squint

Squint (album)

Squint was the 1993 critically acclaimed return of Steve Taylor as a solo artist after his stint as the lead singer of Chagall Guevara. Highlights of the album include "The Lament of Desmond RG Underwood Frederick IV," "Easy Listening," "Jesus is for Losers," "The Finish Line," "Bannerman," and...

; as well as with Randy Stonehill

Randy Stonehill

Randall Evan "Randy" Stonehill is an American singer-songwriter from Stockton, California, best known as one of the so-called "fathers of contemporary Christian music". His music is primarily folk rock in the style of James Taylor, but he has assayed other styles, with various albums focused on...

, Rick Cua

Rick Cua

Rick Cua is an American Dove Award and Grammy Award-winning Christian rock singer, songwriter, bassist, author, and ordained minister...

, and Dave Perkins. Mead was also a member of Chagall Guevara

Chagall Guevara

Chagall Guevara was an American rock band formed in 1989 by solo artist Steve Taylor, guitarists Dave Perkins and Lynn Nichols , bassist Wade Jaynes, and drummer Mike Mead....

 on MCA records in the early 1990s, along with Taylor, Perkins, Lynn Nichols

Lynn Nichols

Lynn Arthur Nichols is an American songwriter, producer, and musician from New York who now resides in Nashville, Tennessee.In 1977, Nichols was a member of the Phil Keaggy Band, with Phil Madeira, Terry Andersen and Dan Cunningham. The band released one album together, entitled Emerging...

, and bassist Wade Jaynes. Other notable recordings were with White Heart, White Cross and Kenny Marks. In addition to studio work, Mead also toured the US and Europe with Chagall, White Heart and Marks.

Mead was also a member of the Compassion International

Compassion International

Compassion International is a Christian child sponsorship organization dedicated to the long-term development of children living in poverty around the world. Compassion International, headquartered in Colorado Springs, functions in 26 countries such as Bolivia, Colombia, Mexico, Haiti, Kenya, and...

 All-Star band with Keaggy, Cua, Stonehill, Margaret Becker

Margaret Becker

Margaret Becker is an American Christian rock singer, guitarist, and songwriter. She has had twenty-one No. 1 Christian radio hits, won four Dove Awards, and been nominated for four Grammy Awards.-Biography:...

and others.

Mead currently lives in Nashville, Tennessee with his wife of over 29 years and has three grandchildren. He no longer is involved in the music business.