Everybody who knows her personally and professionally knows that Paula has an unsaturated passion for both music and people. Her music speaks of love in all of its faces and facets, good or bad, right or wrong. Things people say, do and experience as a result thereof, is her key inspiration. She tells it like it is simply because in love, as in life, there are no shortcuts...She started her music career at the age of 5 by banging out notes on glasses of water filled at different levels. By the age of 10 she competed in Eisteddfods and proved she had a voice to be reckoned with when she won a silver diploma despite a severe laryngitis attack a few weeks before the competition.
At 15 she suffered such severe damage to her vocal cords after another laryngitis attack that no one thought she would ever be able to sing again. But she wouldn't accept the inevitable. Without any professional training in music, she discovered the world of composing to be a worthy substitute. By the age of 30 she has composed enough material (country rock / ballad style) to put together almost 10 full original albums. With so much material at her disposal, she was determined to release at least one album of her own and started developing her voice again.
January 2001 she took on the biggest challenge of her life and started working with Elfhaven Productions in Johannesburg on her debut album at her own cost, time and pace. February 2002 saw the birth of the demo album "From Paula...with love" containing the first four original works destined to generate the remaining funding for completion of the full album and test the demand.
She co-produced another six songs with PJ Sound Studio in Cape Town and added them to the above four to complete the full album entitled "Language of Love" and although it was ready in May 2003, it was only released into the public market officially during the beginning of 2005. To say thank you to the One who made all this possible, she produced a dynamic gospel album "Do you know Him?" and also released it in June 2005. The album features a collection of original English and Afrikaans songs presented in a way gospel has never been heard before. It is bound to rock the world of Christians everywhere.
She successfully completed a course in Music Production and Sound Engineering with Audio Institute of America in June 2006 and has since started her own record label, ESP Records, who is now proudly home to the South African annual music award contest, NIOMA, for independent and original artists.
Only love, faith and hope allowed this artist to beat painstaking odds against her more than a few times and the same three factors are destined to make her a success.
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