Paul starting playing music at the age of 8 with his mother’s insistence that the trumpet could help straighten his buck teeth.

That did not work.

He quickly switched to guitar picking up his first acoustic at a store in Syracuse, New York. He studied classical snare drum and was left line leader for the Hyde Park Junior High School band.

With the family’s move to Houston, Paul continued on drums and picked up piano as well. He learned to read and play by ear.

In 1980, Paul moved to North Carolina,  finished High School,  started a band, and then applied to the North Carolina School of Arts where he double majored in composition and classical guitar.

Upon finishing Graduate study composition and conducting at the Cleveland institute of Music, Paul decided that he wanted to get back into the pop music scene. “The audience for contemporary classical music was essentially other composers and friends and family. I was not really interested in spending the rest of my life asking my friends to come to my concerts”.

His first band in Cleveland was Bang Bang with the line-up of Frank Vale on keys,  Charlie Newcomer on drums, Mark Best on Bass, Daris Atkins and Cliff Norton on Guitars, and Paul on vocals. In 1990, Paul, Frank, and Mark broke off to form HipShot, a dance oriented jazz-rock-fusion band. The HipShot song “Meet Me in Heaven” reached #15 on the Billboard dance charts and their following single “New World” was the top reporting song at the largest Billboard reporting dance club in the US.

Personal and professional life drove Paul to make Nashville his next home and he moved to Music City in 1993.

His first band in Nashville was Under the Sun featuring Paul on guitar and vocals, Kevin Mason on guitar, Max Ratcliff on guitar, Pete Young on drums, and Brian Courtney on bass. Under the Sun played the top clubs in Nashville at the time; Ace of Clubs, 12^th and Porter, and Exit Inn.

After Brian moved to California, Paul started another band , AlphaMan. This was to be the most adventurous instrumentally with members of the Nashville Symphony on strings; Karen Winkelmann Worley; violin, and Anthony LaMarchina; cello. Other members included Ron Hite on bass and Eric Dunlop on drums. The band played local clubs including the Exit Inn and perhaps the most famous dive in Nashville; Jack’s Guitar Bar. After two showings for Chet Atkin’s days, the band split up in 1998.

Paul continues to write songs and orchestral works.