Think back to the time before limitations, before you were told, "you can't do that." Paul Vieira has this theory that each child instinctively knows their own future. "For me, it was being a rock star. My mom has this photo of me at 2 years old, still in diapers, posing with an electric guitar and a cigarette hanging from my mouth."
Paul taught himself guitar, piano and wrote his first songs as a pubescent boy. Ever since then, he says there's been a band playing in his head. In high school, hundreds came to watch his shows. Then something terrible happened. He gave his heart away.
"Like an honest idiot, I followed the dangling carrot of religion. Somebody pressed the mute button and the music stopped." The music train was derailed until years later when Paul finally saw the light out from the other side of the stained-glass window. Now Paul has left the building and he's standing back in the cue to music stardom. "Man, this line is long! I’ve got to figure out another way in through the back door."
In the meantime, Paul Vieira is working on a little recording project. He says it's a tribute to this goddess that blindly agreed to marry him. The EP is called "building My taj mahal," and is scheduled for release this September 2009. But you can still hear the piano pop rhythms and melodic vocal hooks of this love sick songwriter out from the land of no return. Stop by again very soon to hear the next song in this work in progress.