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Sunday, February 15, 2015

Daniel Jay Paul






MUSIC EXPRESS

By Marcus Wright

Along the eastern shore of Lake Michigan, where the rolling waters crash upon the sand, there Daniel Jay Paul resides with his muse, spinning imagination and dreams into stories and songs of love. A songwriter, producer, and author of the novel "The Last Sunset" who prefers to keep to himself, letting his work do the speaking. His hair is dark blonde with a touch of silver just beginning to peak out at the edges, his eyes blue and clear. His face is tanned and weathered with fine lines at the corners of his eyes.

A visit to his recording studio nestled in the pines, reveals something about the artist himself. It is a kind of magical chaos, with scribbled lyric sheets stuffed in every nook and shelf, and wires strung haphazardly across the room. Three guitars seem to have been given a place of honor standing stately in the middle of the room.

It was during the Thomas Jefferson College years, while attending a poetry workshop where the professor said, "You don't write poems, you write song lyrics." There are those who say there are no coincidences, but at this same time a new friend came into his life that was a bass player in a rock-n-roll band. Robert Livingston Jr. became his musical mentor. He went out on rock n' roll gigs with the band Challenge, sleeping on the beach because they didn't earn enough to cover accommodations when they played clubs like Whiskey Creek at Silver Lake. In exchange Paul learned how to play guitar and how to set his "poems" to music.

A natural-born romantic, the humble and reclusive Daniel Jay Paul is a creative renaissance man who bridges the gap between literature and music. Some of his credits include writing and producing the album "Love Keeps On Burning" for the band The Flame, and his own music that includes the albums: “Once Upon a Time”, “Songwriter”, “Till The Sun Rises Again”, “Clean Getaway”, “When The Sky Begins To Fall”, “Somewhere In The Night”, and the special edition “Find Your Wings” which is used as a gift for those donating to the Volunteers of America homeless children project. Director Kerstin Karlhuber used nineteen of his songs as the soundtrack for the award-winning experimental film “Tides of the Heart”. 

His hallmark song “Someday I’m Going Home” was written during a visit to Baton Rouge, LA in the aftermath of hurricane Katrina, it not only bears witness to the hundreds of thousands of refugees displaced by the disaster, but also takes on a higher spiritual significance. A new version of this song is included on his final album “The Path Less Traveled”.
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                   Official website:   http://www.danieljaypaul.com
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