Career
He teaches music at Florida Atlantic University. He also co-wrote the Patti Day song "Right Before My Eyes" with Alexander Forbes. In 1977, Michael Zager Band"s single "Life"s a Party" features a young Whitney Houston (age 15) and her mother Cissy Houston on vocals.
In 1978, the Michael Zager Band had a huge disco hit anthem with "Let"s All Chant".
Zager graduated from University of Miami and the Mannes College of Music. He taught at the Mannes College of Music, a division of New School University, in New New York
He taught at the College of Music at Payap University in Chiang Mai, Thailand, during the summers of 2006 and 2008 and was brought back as a Payap-sponsored scholar/consultant for the 2009 summer to advise Payap University"s new Recording Studio on commercial music production. He holds the positions of the Dorothy F. Schmidt Eminent Scholar in Performing Arts and professor of music at Florida Atlantic University in Boca Raton, Florida.
He is the author of Writing Music for Television and Radio Commercials (A Manual for Composers and Students) published by The Scarecrow Press, and Music Production, also published by Scarecrow Press.