"I'd like to think of myself as a great performer - what performer wouldn't!  I started this journey at a young age, singing my heart out at festivals, beating a drum kit in a 4/4 rock beat, wearing the puff sleeved sweater my mom knit me.  I can clearly remember the first time I was on stage.  I was in grade 2 and it was a Christmas pageant.  Every kid had to say a few lines from the Night Before Christmas.  When it was my turn, I stepped out of the single file line we were arranged in and took center stage.  I looked out at all the mom's and dad's staring me, and burst out into hysterical laughter.  'Everyone is looking at me!' I thought this was the greatest thing in the whole entire world.  The audience was laughing, there were tears in our eyes...and then, I dropped my ecstatic face, and delivered the lines.  

 

Many years later, I'm still imprisoned by the thrill of performing.  I love it and if I'm not 'getting any', I'm miserable.  This is what drives me to perform.  Necessity for mental well being."

- Boback

Boback's guitar style started with punk rock on a true vintage 69 strat,  which somehow melted into a classical guitar preference.  Her vocals went from rock to industrial and dance, and has settled on some fence between, soul, rock and jazz.  Any one of Boback’s songs can be melted into a yummy pot of dance culture while still maintaining the intensity and soul of which it was written.

When the club mix of 'Merci Beaucoup' hit the clubs in New York it earned Michelle the title of 'vocal siren' (see lollipop review).  Boback continues to work with a variety of musicians from the US and Canada. Her current shows in Vancouver are staged with Suzka, spawning 'The Boback and Suzka Show'.  Boback has been known to ingage the audience with props and lyrical fascinations.  Never the same show twice, she cultivates musicians to constantly evolve her live shows.

Boback is also a respected member of the film community.  Her first lead role in Creepy Six Films' 'Torched' (released  'Hell Hath No Fury') as the emotionally turmoiled 'Deanna' is now a horror cult hit and is scheduled for release by Brain Damage Films this spring 2006. Classical, and musical training has kept Michelle a Theatre enthusiast.  The great play by Andrew Farrar ' Tecumseh As A Doorstop' has taken Michelle from Vancouver to Montreal, performing the heart filled role of Megan. She has had leading roles in the films "Tortured" with Laurence Fishburne, "Destination: Infestation", "South of Houston st", "Smokejumpers" and more.

Michelle studied acting in Winnipeg, Manitoba at Actor's Showcase, and currently teaches and coaches young / beginner actors through workshops across the country.