A collection of ‘lounge-groove standards’ ft. new radio hit’s – AC Cool

Gently does it …But do it!

Paul Petersen was born in Cape Town, South Africa, in the middle of the apartheid era. Music was very much a part of his family, culture and traditions. He received his first guitar, a Hofner twelve-string, from his paternal grandfather “Oupa” at the age of 13. Paul was determined to play the guitar like his late friend Russell Herman, and he practiced for hours at a time in the house and on the street corner with his friends. (To this day Paul still wishes he could play like Russell did.)

At 16 Paul began playing professionally in the Cape Town area with a dance band and then in Port Elizabeth with a group called Maiden Voyage where he met singer/songwriter/cabaret artist Taliep Petersen. Taliep and Paul moved to Johannesburg where Paul played with the group Drive. Finally Paul made his big break when he joined the band Spirits Rejoice. They backed the singing sensation trio Joy and toured extensively in South Africa, Namibia (then Southwest Africa), Swaziland, Botswana and Lesotho. With Spirits Rejoice, Paul recorded the song “Shine On” which charted at number five (5) on the South African Hit Parade for 12 weeks.

For the next decade Paul played with the group Sapphyre throughout southern Africa to include Sun City and most of the Sun International casino resorts and five-star hotels.

Currently Paul lives in Bowling Green, Kentucky, where he plays with Tucats, the Lost River Cave Big Band and the Nashville-based world music group Ancienthand (www.ancienthand.com) who have their own recording studio, Kalimba Studio, in Nashville, Tennessee. Paul spends most of his time in his own recording studio in Bowling Green where he works on his projects and others from around the country.

In his more than two decades of playing music, Paul has played, backed and recorded with American and British artists Lamont Dozier, Clarence Carter, Dobie Gray, Timmy Thomas, Double Exposure, Leo Sayer. Janice Hoyte and South African artists Thandie Klaasen, Abigail Kubeka, Mara Louw, Margaret Singana, Sophia Foster, Richard Jon Smith, Lionel Petersen, Paul “Curly” Hanmer, Robbie Jansen, Nico Carstens, Monty Webber, Mynie Grové, Dianne Chandler, Alvon Collison, Jennifer Jones, Terry Fortune, Richard Loring, Zane Adam, Joanne Pezarro, Anne Powers, Manuel Escorcio, David Kramer and Stella Starr.

Paul has played for many artists and dignitaries to include UB40, Roman Polanski, Archbishop Desmond Tutu, F. W. DeKlerk, Trevor Manuel, Sol Kerzner, the American Ambassadors to South Africa and the Comores Islands, the South African Ambassador to the United States and the Vice President of the Comores

... So just in case you forgot, here is another reason to take a trip back in time to the - really! - good old days. When paisley was the thing to wear and big hair was the way to be seen, ... bell-bottoms and platforms and dancing-the-night-away - without a care in the world ~

So get up and boogie as we take another blast from the past.

Let the music keep on playing ...

CHAD SAAIMAN - Burning up the national airwaves with his first single ‘Moving On’ off his highly anticipated self-written debut album ‘Chasing Melodies’.

The music that flows from this inspired artist can be described as infectious, untainted and above all soulful with R&B, jazz and acoustic influences.

The origin of his music is about depth and how it resonates within his listeners.

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