Elvis Entertainers Network - Raymond Michael

There he was up on stage - the student leader, football player, all-around good sport, grinning sideburn to sideburn as a hypnotist put him under: "Deeper, deeper, you're getting tired, your eyes are closing, you're relaxed, you're very relaxed, you're profoundly relaxed....you're Elvis®!"

That's all it took. Twenty-eight years ago in an auditorium at Cal Lutheran University in Thousand Oaks, CA, a hypnotist named George Sharp did his abba-dabba act on an opera student named George Michael Hebel. The rest is a hunka-hunka history. In his trance that night, the lanky lad did Blue Suede Shoes and the crowd went wild.

By the time he was 21, he had abandoned his hopes for La Scala. Instead, he was playing Vegas, and he hasn't stopped. By day, he's Mr. Hebel, a teacher of vocal music at Moorpark High School. But in his time off, he's Raymond Michael, an Elvis® Impersonator called one of the best by no less an authority than Dick Clark, the sage of American Bandstand.

Raymond has performed on the Las Vegas strip, Palm Springs, county fairs, amusement parks and shows that companies stage to rev up the sales and sales force. In the past 12 years, he has raised more than $100,000 for his alma mater, Cal Lutheran. It's his way of saying, "Thank you. Thank you very much!"

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