Paul Spaeth is an independent musician and composer from the United States. He attended Slinger High School in Slinger, Wisconsin. He started his career at 15 after winning the Pepsi-Summerfest Talent Search contest. While in high school, his CD “Cobalt Blue” reached over 1.6 million downloads at MP3.com and he was recognized as the Top Artist in Los Angeles. Since then, his career has been varied with music for piano, television, film, and video games. He has personally called his music “Cinematic Piano” or “Visual Progressive Instrumental,” to describe his highly melodic and textural styles, but his piano music is often categorized as New Age.
Los Angeles, CA: Began scoring his first video game soundtrack. [October 2007]
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Attending USC for Music Composition and Film Scoring [August 2001]
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The cellist on Paul's CD "Redemption," Tina Guo, is now performing in the Cirque du Soleil show "Michael Jackson: The Immortal." She left on the 3-year world tour the day after they finished shooting his music video together for his popular track "Lullaby for the Mending Heart.".
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Paul's grandfather recorded him improvising on the piano at age 9 and told him he'd be on the radio someday. Paul has attributed that experience as the beginning of his desire to become a recording artist.
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Began playing piano at age 5 and composing seriously by age 12.
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Besides being a composer, Paul made his "acting" debut by being the "hands" of an actor playing the piano in the film Finding Home (2003) directed by Lawrence Foldes.