New Age
United States
Paul Cardall
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About Paul Cardall
A classical and jazz pianist who plays Christian and New Age instrumentals, Paul Cardall is known for his own works as well as for his arrangements of traditional hymns.
∙ Cardall began playing piano as a child, and in high school he started writing songs to express his grief after a good friend was killed in a car accident.
∙ In 1994, novelist Richard Paul Evans asked the pianist to write a musical adaptation of his bestseller The Christmas Box, and the 1999 album was Cardall’s first success.
∙ The 2011 LP, New Life, celebrated the transplant he received in 2009, after living with congenital heart disease for more than 30 years.
∙ He has scored four chart-topping New Age albums, including 2015’s 40 Hymns for Forty Days, which stayed in the Top 10 for almost a year.
∙ A New Creation, his 2016 LP, featured vocals by tenor Nathan Pacheco on “Gethsemane” and Cardall’s piano cover of Harry Styles’ hit “Sign of the Times.”
∙ In 2019, his album Christmas won the Gospel Music Association Dove Award for Instrumental Album of the Year.
Musical InfluencesPaul Cardall's musical influences include Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Enya, Ludwig van Beethoven and more.
Influenced by Paul CardallPaul Cardall has influenced the music of Jason Tonioli, João Caleira, Mary Beck and more.
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