The Paul Brothers
Welcome to the world of the musical
Paul Brothers,
unquestionably one of Guyana’s premier musical family of the
last 40 years. The Paul’s were brought up in a musical
environment with both sides of the family represented as active
musicians. Una Paul, mother, as an accomplished pianist; and
Trenton Paul, father, played the organ, harmonica, violin and
sang in the St Andrews Church choir.
The four multi-talented and gifted Paul
brothers are recognized as award winning and accomplished
musicians and are well respected musically in the Guyanese and
international community.
Deryck was the lead singer of the
Telstars group for many years in the 60's early 70's also
performing at the Annual Needy Children's Fund concerts at QC
where he excelled with his powerful vocals performing renditions
like "You'll never walk alone" and "Oh Holy Night" his signature
tunes to standing ovations. Deryck’s most recent performance at
the Guyana Relief Concert in Tampa Florida got rave reviews for
his rendition of “You raised me up (Josh Groban). Deryck was
also a member of the later formed Thunderbirds and The Paul
Brothers Combo 7 before migrating to Toronto to join his brother
Reggie.
Reggie is resident in Miami and has
a 6 CD record collection he recorded and produced
In Guyana Reggie was mentored by the great
Guyanese guitarist Rector Schultz where he began as a Bass
Guitarists. Reggie developed into one of Guyana's best lead
guitarist and vocalists. Some of the bands in Guyana Reggie
performed with include Des Glasford's Combo 7, The Young Ones,
Group Solo, The Thunderbirds, and The Melons. After migrating to
Toronto he hooked up with Dave Martin and later joined the
Tradewinds as the bassist and resided in Grand Cayman with the
group for a while before returning to Toronto where he joined
the Dennis Desousa band as lead guitarist and vocalist.
Reggie now performs in the Miami area.
Keith (Iauwata) at an early
age (13) Keith started performing locally as a bassist and
singer on most of the variety shows in and around Georgetown
sometimes as the opening act for the international acts that
passed thru Guyana.
Iauwata joined the famous Tom Charles and
The Syncopators at age 15 and was one of the youngest
professional musicians in Guyana at the time.
Iauwata is a well renowned
multi instrumentalist/vocalist whose musical voyage started from
as early as his teenage years where he had the privilege to
perform with Jimmy Cliff and other foreign artistes in Guyana.
Iauwata left Guyana and recorded his first album "Keith Paul and
the GT Boom Band." Since then his journey has been ever
developing, performing and recording traveling all over the
world with many established artist such Ike & Tina Turner, Sly &
Robbie, Bunny Wailer, Dennis Brown, Luciano, Horace Andy, The
Specials & UB40 to name a few. After spending a considerable
amount of years traveling the world Iauwata began developing his
Songwriting & Production skills joining and developing groups
such as Truths & Rights (Canada), Hardskin (UK), Eek A Mouse
(Jamaica). Iauwata has most recently recorded an instrumental
Jazz album namely Iauwata & The Black Box Orchestra which is due
for release shortly.
Xola
(Terence) bassist
performed in Guyana with the Paul Brothers Combo 7 then
immigrated to Toronto Canada where he became one of the original
members of Canada's premier Reggae Bands Truth and Rights. Xola
also reestablished his original GT band Le Dub Sac in Toronto in
the mid 80s with his brother Iauwata, and some of Toronto's
finest musicians of the day Wadi Gad, Ishaka, Afua Cooper and
Ahmed. Xola now performs in Toronto and is continuing his
writing and producing.
Deryck and Xola reside in Toronto, Canada;
Reggie resides in Miami, USA and Iauwata is an international
ambassador of music with regular visits to Guyana, New York,
London and Toronto. The brothers have recorded several albums
and Cds’ as individual artists but came together last year
(2006) to record their family CD which is due out shortly (early
2007).
Events are presently being scheduled for
their CD releases and performance in Toronto and other locations
in North America and Guyana with a possibility of a launching in
England in 2008. |