There is a new phenomenon sweeping the nation, the world and the Central Florida Area.  It is a new faith-based positive social media website coupled with a worldwide Christian Talent Search called Crazy Praise Live.

Crazy Praise Live.com is the brainchild of former Tampa resident and successful African American businessman, David Michaels.

Michaels, now an Orlando resident had long since built for himself a very lucrative swimming pool company.

His chain of sign stores had created and manufactured signage countrywide creating a very comfortable living for himself and his family.
Michaels was approached and propositioned somewhere around February 2006 in regards to becoming an investor in a small nationwide Gospel talent search and tour.
Having never been the type to scoff at a challenge or fear venturing into new arenas, he accepted the proposition.  Since he was raised in the church, Gospel music was a genre that was not unfamiliar to him.

He became involved in the tour operations.

While traveling with the tour, Michaels noticed something that troubled him.  Being such an astute businessman, Michaels stated, “I noticed that most of the Christian artists involved were skilled in their crafts, but were lacking the necessary business skills to become successful in the industry.”

Fueled by a desire to help artists achieve a greater degree of success in their music ministries, he began to mentor artists young and old and launched crazypraiselive.com.
The website became a mechanism for local artists to connect with artists all over the world.

“In exchange for an artist’s social media, they have an opportunity to gain international exposure, increase their networkability and fan base through crazypraiselive.com”, states Michaels.

In addition to the social media structure of the website which is complete with forums to discuss trending religious and secular topics; chat rooms and business directories; vocalists, musicians, dancers, comedians, choirs, groups, mimes and spoken word artists can enter the weekly Worldwide Christian Talent Search and for a small yearly registration fee; Christian ministers/entertainers can register to win $2,500.00 by uploading performance videos.

Weekly winners will have a chance to compete in the Grand Finale.  Over $100,000 in cash prizes will be given away at the Zora Neale Hurston Festival in Eatonville, Florida in January 2013, which is now sponsored by Crazy Praise Live due to its overwhelming success at the January 2012 festival. $50,000 in cash and a brand new Toyota truck will be awarded to the Grand Prize winner.

Crazy Praise Live is currently being introduced nationwide in over 500 churches.  A large part of Michaels’ vision is being able to empower organizations and individuals from all walks of life by giving them tools to acquire financial gains.

Tampa’s next Crazy Praise Live sponsored event will be held at Abundant Life Ministries, 4701 E. Hanna Ave., on September 22, 2012 at 6 p. m.  They will be celebrating the First Anniversary of the church where Reverend Randy Randolph is the Pastor.