Paula Cole

With her seventh studio album over a two-decade-long career, Paula Cole has created “7,” released Spring 2015, writing out her life, touching emotion.

Featuring Cole’s original band members/musical soul mates Jay Bellerose and Kevin Barry, with upright bassist Dennis Crouch complementing the bottom-end, “’7’ is about the songs. I’m very proud of it. These are entirely live performances, no overdubs by the band. The only overdubs are my background vocals, and my requisite Alfred Hitchcock appearance, my clarinet”, laughs Cole. “Very intimate.”

Paula graduated from Berklee College of Music where she is now Professor, has a background in jazz, receiving her first record deal from a jazz label in 1990 (which she declined in order to continue writing her original work.) She is loyal to her loving fans and is happy being an independent artist on her own 675 Records label, free to make music in her “second career”, her “more authentic career.”

From her jazz, rock and soul roots, sophisticated writing and production, her touring/collaboration with Peter Gabriel’s “Secret World Live”, her Grammy-winning solo recording, to her feminism, deep musicianship, close relationship to fans and exceptional live shows, Paula Cole is complex and defies any one category. Her undeniably authentic voice simply allows the songs to speak for themselves.