Mike Terrana, Date of Birth, Place of Birth

Mike Terrana

American drummer

Date of Birth: 21-Jan-1960

Place of Birth: Buffalo, New York, United States

Profession: drummer, musician

Nationality: United States

Zodiac Sign: Aquarius

Mike Terrana (January 21, 1960) is an American hard rock and heavy metal drummer.
His first professional work was in 1984 with the MCA band Hanover Fist from Toronto, after which he recorded and toured with other bands, playing many styles of music in Western New York state.
Between 1987 and 1997, he was based in Los Angeles and worked with various virtuoso guitarists, including Yngwie Malmsteen, Tony Macalpine, Steve Lukather, and bands like Kuni and Beau Nasty. In 1997 Terrana moved to Europe, first in the Netherlands for six months and then Germany (where he now owns and runs a cattery).
He worked with the German bands Rage, Gamma Ray, Savage Circus, Axel Rudi Pell, Roland Grapow and Masterplan.
In 2016, Terrana joined Italian heavy metal band Vision Divine.
In 2017, Terrana also joined Spanish band Avalanch and Czech band Kreyson.In addition, Mike has his own three-piece hard rock band, "TERRANA", and a live musical project that combines classical and rock music with operatic vocals, "Beauty of the Beat", which started at the time he was playing with Finnish vocalist Tarja Turunen, with the name Beauty and the Beat.