Artist of the week - Paul Sonnenberg

I am very honored to have Paul Sonnenberg as my first artist of the week.


Artist name: Paul Sonnenberg (also with: Paul Sonnenberg's Trio Bossa Nova)

Genre of music: Bossa Nova, etc

Influences: João Gliberto, Tom Jobim, Nick Drake, Leonard Cohen

Location: USA


Biography:

Paul Sonnenberg is a very talented singer, guitarist, song writer and lyricist.
He was born in Erie, Pennsylvania in early 1960. He began playing the guitar at 16. and wrote poetry and songs through high school. He was a spiritual seeker through the seventies, a personal growth junkie through the eighties, and a disillusioned former musician through the nineties.

Paul began in the early 'aughties' to learn to play the music of Antonio Carlos Jobim, which reignited his love for the guitar and for singing. He recorded his first CD of this music (Bossanova) in 2004. He posted his first YouTube videos in 2006, and reached his 1 millionth YouTube view on Valentines Day, 2009. The effort to improve his music for YouTube led him to regular live performing. He formed Paul Sonnenberg's Trio Bossa Nova with percussionist Lynn Turner and flute player Shirley Fraser in 2008.





For more information about Paul Sonnenberg:

http://www.gnomenclaturestudios.com/
http://www.myspace.com/paulsonnenberg
http://www.youtube.com/sonnenberg
sonnenberg@mac.com

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