Transcript Music 1010
Paul Cardall
By: Kelcee Josephson
Biography
Award
winning
• Pianist
• Author
• Lecturer
Born with heart disease
Painful experiences started
his music career
Born April
24th 1973
Fifth child of eight
Started playing at young
age but eventually quit
Started playing again after
a friend tragically passed
Attended
SLCC
Has endowment with
college
Paul Cardall Family
Foundation
Born
with CHD
• Congenital Heart disease
Leading
birth defects
Most children die within
days of birth
Lived longer than was told
Regularly
visited the
hospital
Had oxygen tank most of
his life
2008 was told he needed a
heart transplant
2009 received a new heart
1995
privately pressed an
album
1997 married Lynette
Stewart
Two Children
• Eden, 2005
• Eliza, 2012
2013
separated from
Lynette and remarried
Internationally
known
13 albums as of 2011
“New Life” first album
released since transplant
Started own label: Stone
Angel Music
Paulcardall.com
Little
girl born with CHD
Had a heart transplant as a
baby
She didn’t survive long
Sick children deeply affect
Paul
From album Sacred Piano
3
months before his
transplant his brother died
They couldn’t use his
organs for Paul
Originally written for the
show LOST
Album; New Life
Brother
and Father both
visited Peru for service
Their experiences inspired
this song
Album; Faithful
Slow
and Peaceful
Piano and strings playing
together
Lullaby rhythm
Texture in piano
Chords
progress while
strings stay the same
Melody is slow and has a
dark feeling to it
Slow to fast to slow
Slow
and calm
Broken chords
Strings are added
Higher notes used a lot
http://www.slcc.edu/financialaid/docs/1
4-15_Scholarships/2014-15-Paul-CardallCHD.pdf
Gordon Murray; Billboard Magazine
http://mormonsoprano.com/2009/08/04/
gracies-theme-cardall/
http://www.youtube.com/channel/UC2yy
yQRzAAVciQHiPmHjYog
http://www.paulcardall.com/