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Paul Wilbur is an American singer-songwriter, worship leader, and pastor in the Messianic music genre. He has produced six albums under the Integrity Music label and appears with other artists on albums produced with Israel's Hope. He has also produced three albums in Jerusalem, Israel; and most of his albums in the United States. His life - Extract from Wilbur Ministries The world’s opera stages and synagogues were the ambition of a determined young man named Paul Wilbur. A passion for the arts and music took him from under graduate school in Cleveland, Ohio across the Atlantic to study in Milan, Italy. There he was instructed in vocal technique, Italian, and opera by some of La Scala's most skilled mentors. “By the time I had returned from Italy the direction of my life had been pretty well set in stone,” Paul says. “The life of Richard Tucker had become a pattern to success that I wished to emulate. Here was a Jewish man, who was one of the world’s most revered operatic tenors, and who also honored his religious tradition by singing under the domed roofs of the world’s synagogues.” “I was pursuing a Master’s Degree in vocal music performance at Indiana University, and the things that normally attract a young man were also attractive to me: music, my friends, and girls! As I pursued relationships, inevitably two things happened: I would ask a girl out for a date, and they invited me to church.” The writing was on the wall. “It was like I wore a t-shirt that said, ‘Ple