“A PIANIST ON A PILGRIMAGE”
Born in Iowa, Paul has been playing piano since he was a small child. He was classically trained for 10 years in his youth, excelled in numerous solo/ensemble contests growing up, and has been playing the organ in church congregations for the past 14 years across different parts of the United States and Canada. He has significant experience in composition and songwriting and, between 2022 and 2023, released 11 self-produced original songs aside from his Christian album, including “Make Room For Him,” “It’s Worn,” and “What Lies Within.” He is also a vocalist, classical composer, arranger, and amateur guitarist, and he loves jamming on drums and other percussion when he gets the chance. He is also a two-time Colorado Bandmaster Association champion, taking that title with his high school marching band in 2003 and 2004 as the Pit Section Leader, sung in several church and academic choirs, and is currently a pianist, drummer, and vocalist in the Southern Utah University Band, Direct Currents.
The second of five children, Paul grew up in Western Colorado to Kevin and Lorchin Pulsipher. His mother is a talented violinist, and all of his siblings enjoyed getting involved with music growing up as well on various instruments. He and both of his brothers were signed up for piano lessons at a young age, but his brothers quit, partially blaming their choice on Paul’s “hogging the piano too much.”
Part of Paul’s creativity in music stems from spending thousands of hours coming up with what he thought were better melodies, harmonies, and bass lines than he heard from songs he listened to on CDs and the radio through his childhood and writing them down when he had the chance. He has taken that ability and turned it into one of his self-produced albums, Classically Divergent, a title which nods to his being on the Autism Spectrum.
He was married to his late wife Lorraine in Canada in 2009 and looked after her extensive health care needs from 2009 to 2019, when she passed away. After his return to the States, he was surprised when Collette Marcum expressed great interest in him, and the two were married in 2020, right in the middle of COVID. Collette is a talented vocalist and also enjoys playing flute, which you can hear on his first 2024 single, “A Walk Through Time.”
For more information on Paul, you can also visit his personal blog, “Good Things Now and to Come,” or his podcast, Stepping Into Freedom.
