Michael Thomas Roe is an American singer-songwriter and guitarist from Sacramento, California, who began his career in the late 1970s and is best known as the frontman of the rock band The 77s, working primarily within rock and Christian rock genres. His music blends roots rock, power pop and alternative rock with introspective lyrics, and across both band projects and solo releases he has alternated between rock-driven arrangements and more acoustic or atmospheric approaches that have contributed to the development of the American Christian alternative scene.