Mike Tramp Biography by Thom Jurek
Mike Tramp is a Danish rock & roll singer/songwriter best known as the frontman for 1970s Euro-rockers Mabel, '80s metal band White Lion, and hard rockers Freak of Nature during the '90s. He made his solo debut with 1998's Capricorn, and formed a new version of White Lion in 2004; they released the 2008 studio album Return of the Pride. 2009's Mike Tramp & The Rock 'N' Roll Circuz was originally intended as another studio outing for the band, but Tramp claimed it for himself, bringing White Lion to an end. 2011's Stand Your Ground by Mike Tramp & The Rock 'N' Roll Circuz featured the charting tribute single "Hymn to Ronnie," for Ronnie James Dio, who died the previous year. 2012's Cobblestone Street was an acoustic outing that made the Danish pop charts. After subsequent solo tours of Europe and the U.S., Tramp released Museum, a second acoustic outing in 2014, followed by global touring and appearances on ship nostalgia tours. In 2015, he released Nomad with the newly formed Band of Brothers, marking a return to electric rock & roll. In 2017, Maybe Tomorrow became his first solo record to receive a transatlantic release. Stray from the Flock followed in 2019, and Second Time Around -- a collection of re-recordings from 2009's The Rock 'N' Roll Circuz -- was released in 2020 to accompany the solo retrospective Trampthology. In 2021, Tramp entered his song "Everything Is Alright" into the Dansk Melodi Grand Prix, hoping to represent his country in the Eurovision Song Contest.