By: Kathy Forste, Music Director

KC Cafe Radio Performing Artist Paul Vens is an artist and composer in the purest sense of the word.  He is a painter, a singer, songwriter and guitarist.

At the tender age of 10, Paul constructed his very first guitar from wood.  From that time forward, playing guitar was a passion.  His career began in the early 1980s, when he played covers of rock and roll legends such as the Rolling Stones and Creedence Clearwater.  That led him on to a recording contract with Oreade/Warner.  Fourteen albums later, Paul released Words In Time on his own label, a huge departure from his early music influences.

Today Paul finds his biggest inspiration from nature and the beauty and joy it brings.  Having his own music label he now creates music that is meaningful to him on a personal level, and in return he has found a large international following that stretches from Europe to North America.

I recently had the pleasure of visiting with Paul, in our first-ever international Performing Artist interview.  We spend some time talking about his new album, about nature, and how the two work concurrently throughout the music he writes and plays.  We also talk about his work as a painter, and how the visuals from the images he creates are often reflected in the sounds of his music.  It's a wonderfully fascinating conversation that I invite you to listen in on here.