Performance · Production
Bret Michaels
Butler, United States • b. 1963-03-15
Bret Michaels is credited on 536 releases across 109 albums tracked on Gatefold, active 1985–2025 — the collector-built map of who actually made the music.
536
Pressings credited
109
Albums
5
Decades active
166
In collections
Biography
Bret Michael Sychak (born March 15, 1963), known professionally as Bret Michaels, is an American rock musician. He is the frontman of Poison, which has sold over 65 million albums worldwide and 30 million records in the United States. The band has also charted 10 singles to the Top 40 of the Billboard Hot 100, including six Top 10 singles and a number-one single, "Every Rose Has Its Thorn". Besides his career as frontman, he has several solo albums to his credit, including the soundtrack album to the 1998 film A Letter from Death Row in which Michaels starred, wrote and directed, and a rock album, Songs of Life, in 2003. Michaels has appeared in several films and TV shows, including as a judge on the talent show Nashville Star which led to his country influenced rock album Freedom of Sound in 2005. He starred in the hit VH1 reality show Rock of Love with Bret Michaels and its sequels, which inspired his successful solo album Rock My World. He was also the winning contestant on NBC's reality show Celebrity Apprentice 3 and also featured in his own reality docuseries Bret Michaels: Life as I Know It, which inspired his highest-charting album as a solo artist, Custom Built, reaching No. 1 on Billboard's Hard Rock chart. He is also known for hosting Rock My RV with Bret Michaels on the Travel Channel. In 2006, Hit Parader ranked Michaels at No. 40 on their list of greatest heavy metal singers of all time.
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Credited work
536 releases · 109 albums · active 1985–2025
- Performance · 870
- Production · 70
- Other credits · 69
- Engineering · 56
Studios: Music Grinder Studios · Amigo Studios · A&M Studios · Rumbo Recorders
Discography
Records they worked on — most-collected first.

Open Up And Say ...Ahh!
1988

Look What The Cat Dragged In
1986

Timespace - The Best Of Stevie Nicks
1991

Native Tongue
1993

Flesh & Blood
1990

Poison's Greatest Hits 1986-1996
1996

Can't Be Tamed
2010

Are You Dead Yet?
2005

The Winery Dogs
2013

Every Rose Has Its Thorn
1988

A Best Of Us... For The Rest Of Us
2010

Skeletons In The Closet
2009

The Best Of Poison: 20 Years Of Rock
2006

Nothin' But A Good Time
1988

Double Dose : Ultimate Hits
2011

Power Ballads (The Greatest Driving Anthems In The World...Ever!)
2003

Best Of Ballads & Blues
2003

Hollyweird
2002

A Letter From Death Row (The Album)
1998

Swallow This Live
1991

What Comes Around Goes Around
1991

Unskinny Bop
1990

Talk Dirty To Me
1986
Frequent collaborators
- Various
- Poison (3)
- Stevie Nicks
- Children Of Bodom
- Miley Cyrus
- Susie Hatton
- McRackins
- The Sirens (3)
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