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/