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Paul Korda
12+ albums
SSWfolk
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Biography by Bruce Eder - AllMusic.com British singer/songwriter Paul Korda was practically born into the music scene — his father, Tibor Kunstler, was a classically trained violinist and singer, trained in Budapest and at La Scala, who subsequently switched to saxophone and played with Coleman Hawkins on a tour by the latter of Eastern Europe; his mother was a singer who'd worked on stage and in movies, as well as with bands led by the likes of Stephan Grapelli and Joe Loss; and two of his aunts and his maternal grandmother, Florence Wright Lenner, were well-known singers as well. Korda himself fell into the folk revival scene in London's Soho, crossing paths in the mid-'60s with such future luminaries as Sandy Denny, Al Stewart, Cat Stevens, Noel Redding, and Reg Dwight (aka Elton John), while also studying photography. He organized a folk club at Harrow Technical College, but he also listened to a fair amount of rock & roll — and it was through his friendship with Noel Redding that he chanced to meet Jimi Hendrix and gave away his own opening night at Mayfair's 7½ Club to the American guitarist, at the outset of the latter's career. He cut a single of his own during the 1960s, "Come on Home," for EMI's Columbia Records imprint, and was signed as a songwriter to Andrew Loog Oldham's Immediate Music publishing company, where he wrote "The Time Has Come" for P.P. Arnold, which became a hit in England. Korda moved between two career paths, as a producer at EMI and a musician
