Grooming the next RSO vocalist ...Paul King : Born in Bay City, Michigan, Paul began his vocal work singing with his father in the church choir. At age seven, Paul and his father sang together on stage in a community variety show and he's been hooked ever since. Paul stayed involved in music, studying piano, saxophone and guitar, and performed stints as lead singer for a handful of rock bands while attending Michigan State University.Over a decade ago, Paul met Sunny Wilkinson, an outstanding national jazz vocal recording artist and instructor. At her studio in East Lansing, Michigan, Sunny guided Paul down the long road of fine-tuning his style, technique and jazz chops. Mastering this art is a lifelong quest, but Paul is up to the challenge. He continues to listen to the masters for inspiration, but puts his own soul into every song.Although he began his serious pursuit of a jazz vocal career not long ago, Paul has already made some impressive strides. He has sung with many top jazz musicians in the Detroit area, and has performed with veterans of legendary bands like the Duke Ellington Orchestra, the Benny Goodman Orchestra, the Tommy Dorsey Orchestra, the SamDonahue Orchestra and the Count Basie Orchestra. Paul also performed live with Lavay Smith and Her Red Hot Skillet Lickers in 2001.After singing with many local big bands and jazz combos, Paul helped create the Rhythm Society Orchestra (R.S.O.) in 2000. R.S.O. is easily the hardest-working big band in the Detroit Metro Area, and performs throughout the Midwest. Now based in Grosse Pointe, Michigan, Paul recently starred in a television commercial promoting WDIV Channel 4 in Detroit. Recently Tom Loncaric started a madcap adventure of getting together some of the best musicians in the area to record a series of sessions. His vision was to return to the glory days of recording, using vintage equipment for these sessions and cutting the final product on vinyl. The result was the 2001 release of the critically acclaimed "I'm Crazy 'Bout My Baby." There are various other sessions that have not yet been released, but snippets are available exclusively on this site for your listening pleasure.Paul King is consistently nominated for "Best Jazz Vocalist" by the Detroit Music Awards every year from 2000 through 2006. The Rhythm Society Orchestra and Tom Loncaric Orchestra have also been nominated multiple times throughout those years. Most recently, Paul and R.S.O. won the Battle of The Big Bands at the Masonic Temple in Detroit two years in a row (2005 & 2006).Now, Paul is involved in numerous recording projects, from a brief stint with Detroit's own Royal Garden Trio, to a new recording project for Music Sales Group (New York/Los Angeles/London), to the long awaited first full length CD by the Paul King & The Rhythm Society Orchestra (due to be released by Christmas of 2006).There's much more to come, so stay tuned ...
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