I Am Michael Alago: Breathing Music. Signing Metallica. Beating Death.

Record label executive, photographer, and author, Michael Alago takes readers through this amazing journey that is his life.

Alago grew up in Brooklyn, New York, in a large, spirited, and devoted Puerto Rican family. Through his early passion for music, art, theater, and photography, he soon found himself rubbing elbows with many downtown NYC scene makers, from Stiv Bators to Jean Michel Basquiat, Cherry Vanilla and Wayne County to Deborah Harry and Robert Mapplethorpe. As an underage teenag...