After the bankruptcy of the steel mill he worked at, Angelo M. (short for Melasecca) made the seemingly unlikely transition from steelworker to touring artist. Reviews hail him a “Brilliant Guitarist” with an “Excellent Voice” and call his performance “Powerful”. His music is featured in the PBS TV Series Roadtrip Nation, and he won recognition in both the prestigious Mountain Stage New Song Contest and in Billboard's Song Contest for Thirty Years; a song from his debut CD Far From Home. Pennsylvania is his home, and his acclaimed new CD Steelwork is a tribute to his former working life.

Born in Philadelphia, and currently based in Central Pennsylvania, Angelo M. was the youngest of four boys and influenced by music, as far back as he can remember. With his older brothers all teenagers before he could walk, Angelo’s house was always filled with music. It was the twangy guitar sounds of the early sixties that planted the ambition in an eight-year-old boy to learn how to make his Christmas-present guitar reverberate just like Duane Eddy's. Before he was 10, Angelo had his first paying gig; by 11 his trio was playing old "pop" & country instrumentals for VFW Posts; by age 16 he was playing in high school bands and doing shore gigs. The most prolific band of his youth, The Four Sunns continued into adulthood until family responsibilities pulled Angelo away from the music circuit and onto the back porch. In 1990, Angelo began performing publicly again in a variety of set-ups from soloist to power trio; roadhouse boogie & blues band to the popular acoustic duo, Angelo & Paisley. But, it wasn't until recently that Angelo M. began his singer-songwriter and solo career in earnest when he left his decades-long job in a PA steel mill.