She was born on March 8, International Women's Day, and has sung in performance in Rome, Paris, Amsterdam, Nice, Marseilles, Central America and Chicago. Her grandparents went from Italy to Chicago. She went from Chicago to two hours from Italy, the South of France or Provence. Michele has lived for two months at a time in several different countries such as Italy, France, Spain, Mexico, Guatemala, and Holland. Since 1992 she has had a maison secondaire in the south of France, lived there for 2 or 3 months at a time for 12 springs, and since 2004 she is living continuously here in the south of France. Among the songs she has written is a song entitled appropriately "The International Unknown."