Paul Dateh - Who Needs a Quartet When You Have Him?!

I had been searching the internet for some violin music a few weeks ago and came across Paul Dateh on YouTube. The first video you are going to watch was the first video posted by Paul 3 years ago. Here was my first impression of Mr. Dateh and, needless to say, it was a good one: 

                                  

After hearing this I went straight to iTunes and downloaded some of his music.

Paul Dateh has been studying and playing the violin since he was 4 years old. According to his website bio he dropped his major in Violin Performance to take up the Jazz Vocal program at University of Southern California’s Thornton School of Music. It makes sense that people were shocked since Dateh had been performing and getting classical training for the last 14 years. But, his goal was to become a successful musician in all aspects of the industry - vocalist, instrumentalist, and writer/composer. Listen to some of his tracks on his MYSPACE page.

Here's one of my favorite mashups. With the clever video editing he is his own quartet. HA!

Since his first posting in 2007, Paul's video uploads have attracted up to nearly 9 MILLION views to his YouTube channel to date! So Mr. Dateh, keep up the amazing work! Being that I have been playing the violin since I was 9 years old and appreciate the art of the violin; I love what you are doing with your talent and think that everyone should know what you are up to!



Paul Dateh: Violin. Vocals. Writing.

A couple more favorites:

Watch and listen to Paul's mashup of Billionaire by Bruno Mars and Virtual Insanity bye Jamiroquai - you can definitely hear the jazz/r&b influence in his voice.



Click Here for a short one called "Blame Drew's Cancer" written for his friend fighting cancer and who started to blame everything from Twitter running slow to losing his keys on his cancer. They put an uplifting beat to a good cause.