7th Heaven (band)


7th heaven is a Chicago, Illinois-based rock band created by guitarist Richie Hofherr, Tony Di Giulio, and Michael Mooshey. Formed in 1985, it has continued up to present day with changing band members. The band was named by co-founder Michael Mooshey in 1985. The band name 7th heaven was named after a line from the song "rock around the clock" By Bill Haley & His Comets. The line: "we'll be right in 7th heaven".
7th heaven was managed by Alec John Such of Bon Jovi and James Young of Styx in 1997-1998. 7th heaven is currently managed by NTD Management, which also manages such bands as "Karma Committee", "Serendipity" & HiFi Superstar. They are signed to NTD Records, writing over 5,000 songs by now, doing many shows and selling 100,000 CDs to date. Their acclaimed Silver 30-tracks double CD released in 2004 has been a very popular favourite release.
The title of their 2008 release 14-track album USA-UK comes from joining of the Northern Ireland singer, Keith Semple joining the American AOR band. Semple had been in a UK singing competition and had eventually become a member of boy band One True Voice during the period 2002-2003, before the band broke up. Semple had a gold record with One True Voice mainly through their double A side hit "Sacred Trust/After You're Gone" that had reached #2 in the British music charts.
The band released the album entitled Jukebox in 2010 on the occasion of the band's 25 years. It contains over 700 of the band's song from its start to then. They have also recorded another Semple-led album entitled Pop Media in 2011 containing 22 new songs.
In January 2013, Keith Semple left the band and was replaced by Anthony Fedorov as lead singer. In June of that year, they released the album Synergy. On August 22, 2013 the band announced that Fedorov was no longer in the band. After Federov's departure, Keith Semple became the band's temporary lead vocalist.
On December 1, 2014, Adam Blair was announced as the new lead singer. Adam has also been in bands such as Dot Dot Dot, Adam and the Go Comets and The Fabulous Janes.
Besides performing around 200 shows a year in the Chicagoland area, 7th heaven performs on the "Chicago Music Cruise" every January in the Caribbean; as well as Las Vegas every couple years.

Personnel

Current members

Studio albums

DVDs and Blu-Rays