Michael R. Hicks has uplifted audiences all over the world - from the Middle East to California, from Calgary, Canada to Kenya, Africa. He has spoken on topics ranging from the Atonement to goal-setting. He has performed with artists such as Julie de Azevedo, John Canaan, Nancy Hansen, Peter Brienholt and Jenny Frogley. His music won awards and many have performed his arrangements, from small branch choirs to national country stars.

Michael graduated from BYU in Marketing Communication with a minor in music. He is from Salt Lake City, Utah and served a full-time LDS mission in the California Santa Rosa Mission. Michael has taught seminary at Mountain View High School in Orem, Utah. He has spoken at and has been a counselor for the EFY program for five years.

Michael is perhaps best know as the composer of the EFY Medley: As Sisters In Zion & We'll Bring the World His Truth, sung by nearly a third of a million youth since 1999 at the Especially for Youth program, and sung by tens of thousands in church congregations around the world, from small seminary classes in California, to a multi-regional youth conference in Lithuania, from youth conferences in Australia, to BYU Women's Conference.