Paul Freeman

Paul Freeman is a Welsh-born singer-songwriter of folksy pop songs now living in the United States. Freeman's EP You and I was released on the Arista label on 12 November 2008. The four songs on that album are the title track, “Tightrope,” “That’s How It Is” and “Earthquakes.” His EP That’s How It Is was released on 1 August 2009. It was produced by Howard Benson (Daughtry, Flyleaf, Motörhead, My Chemical Romance) and mixed by Chris Lord-Alge (U2, Leona Lewis, Snow Patrol).Freeman's song “That’s How It Is” was featured near the close of an episode of the Fox Network show Past Life called “Soul Music” (S01E03), first broadcast on 18 February 2010. His Song "Tightrope" was also featured on the Season Finale of Make It or Break It.His six-song EP Tightrope was released on 2 March 2010.Freeman's "Passing Phase" EP was released on iTunes, Amazon.com, and Bandcamp in August 2013.He released his first ever live album, "Paul Freeman at Volver Live" on November 3, 2014.On his MySpace page, Freeman says he was born in South Wales within 20 minutes of the birthplace of Welsh favourite son Dylan Thomas, Freeman's favorite poet. He also says he was named Paul after the Beatle Paul McCartney.According to Freeman, he found his first guitar atop a dumpster, although his parents and grandparents bought the 12-year-old Freeman a new six-string and a book of chords the following Christmas. Freeman's first song came two years later, an ode called “Some Day.” Freeman contends that he is completely self-taught as a musician. During high school, Freeman worked at the legendary Linford Manor, a recording studio north of Oxford in Great Linford, where he says he taught himself to play piano. Said Freeman: “There were all these wonderful instruments lying around. I would never go to bed, I would just stay up and play them. What really got me into playing the piano was having access to the grand piano at the studio.”On 3 September 2016, Freeman married actress Erin Cahill in a ceremony in Côte d'Azur, France.