CathyMultiple Genres, Musician Extraordinaire: Paul Summerlin
September 20th 2010 20:00
Link: www.paulsummerlin.com
Paul Summerlin, Musician
Paul Summerlin
Summary
Genres: Pop / Rock / AmbientLabel: Purple-Orange StudioManagement:
Paul Summerlin, Musician
Artist Bio
Paul Summerlin is a composer, producer, songwriter, singer, conductor, audio engineer, and multi-instrumentalist. He is comfortable and accomplished in multiple styles and genres, including pop-rock, hip-hop, blues, jazz, classical, ambient, electro, and folk. His music has appeared with Seal on the BBC/Sundance series 'Live From Abbey Road', tv series 'Without a Trace', 'Young and the Restless', and 'Genesis of Healing'. He has composed concert orchestrations for Seal's 'Kiss From A Rose', 'Crazy', and 'Love's Divine', as well as string arrangements for producer Adam McInnis and American Idol contestant Stephanie Daulong. Paul is a featured artist with Audiosocket. Paul has been singing, banging on things, and making crazy-weird sounds ever since he was an infant. He started pressing the keys on the piano and matching pitch vocally around the age of 3. At 6 years old he was singing church hymns for memory in his echo-y garage while waiting for the school bus. At 8 he played Mozart on the piano and wrote his first-ever composition, 'Ants at a Picnic'. By the age of 12 he was playing Granados guitar transcriptions and Chopin preludes. He and his younger brother (currently music director for Seal) started playing rock and roll in their teens, and before they ever learned a cover song, they had written 4 or 5 of their own ideas. This ultimately led to the band BE, a forward-thinking, terribly tight, and brutally original pop-rock group who tirelessly pounded their musical mark onto the tape-machines and club stages of the midwest and deep south for some 15 years. For many of those years, Paul studied music in the 'conventional' way, honing his skills as a singer, conductor, composer, and pedagogue.
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