V.E. Paul began playing music around eleven or twelve years old, due in large part he says, because of ‘boredom.’

Admittedly, having an abnormal taste in music for people his age. He started taking guitar lessons, gravitating towards the blues. “Blues isn’t popular where I live,” he says. “Mostly, you hear a lot of classic rock and modern, commercial drivel, but I do get the odd gig here and there, more in Central Pennsylvania than anywhere else.”

Now, at fifteen, his style has developed into a fairly traditional blues sound, “I mess around in delta blues, Texas blues, country blues, and all that,” he explains. “In my lead guitar playing, I'd like to think there's a noticeable jazz influence.”

“I play a little bit of slide, and I can sing a bit too. My feet tend to go crazy intermittently in a song, producing a pounding sort of percussion,” V.E. says of his talents.

He says, “I like to think that if you can tap into the part of your brain that controls music, you should focus on it.”

Outfitted with a lively imagination, V.E. states that, “If the lizard people don't claim world domination before I go off into wherever I go, I'd like to make music a career in some way.”

written by Machaela Miller