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Paul Collier
12+ albums
ambientinstrumentalnew agechilloutthis is what dreams are made of
about
Hello and thank you for choosing to read about me. My name is Paul Collier; I am 37 and am from Stoke on Trent, Staffordshire in the UK. I have a daughter, Danielle-Rose and a son, Elijah. Music has been a part of my life from a very young age. When I was just 7 years old (in 1980) my mum would give me 2 pence for each new song that I learnt to play on the keyboard by ear! Going back further still, my mum says to this day that the reason I became so interested in music was down to her playing the guitar whilst she was pregnant with me. From birth I was bought up in a Christian home, going to church each Sunday and during the week, therefore I grew up listening to emotional music and strong messages, As a youngster I would take my tiny little Casio keyboard with me, sit at the front of the church and play along with the organist, no one could hear it but me, in fact most of the time I would need to hold my keyboard right against my ear as I played to be able to hear it! But it did teach me how to play by ear. Pun not intended. At high school with just 2 years remaining, myself and my classmates had to choose which subjects we would like to study for an O’ level (GCSE) I really wanted to learn music, how to read music and to write it but sadly not enough pupils were interested in it for the subject to run at all, and therefore that door was closed to me, so I took up delivering newspapers morning and night in order to afford private music lessons, which I attended for nea
top songs
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Slow Down
8092TEDTalks : 4 ways to improve the lives of the "bottom billion" - Paul Collier (2008)
6853The Truth Is, Everything Is Within
4054TEDTalks : Paul Collier's new rules for rebuilding a broken nation - Paul Collier (2009)
3965Air
3926My Peaceful Place
3877Always watching over you
315810 Minute Relax
2679Depression to Peace
24410The Man who chose to smile
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