Paul Cebar

Paul Cebar is a songwriter, singer, guitarist and bandleader from Milwaukee, Wisconsin, USA, who likes African, Latin American and Caribbean music. He has released four albums and an EP with his band, Paul Cebar & the Milwaukeeans, which have received airplay from adult album alternative stations across the US, album with all his bands including the latest incarnation Paul Cebar and Tomorrow Sound, and a solo album.

As of 2016 he is touring with two other singer-songwriters, Peter Mulvey and Willy Porter as Peter, Paul, and Willy as well as doing dates with two of his past bands including the revived R&B Cadets.

Cebar recounts his musical journey beginning as an eleven-year-old back in the 1960s when he attended Milwaukee's Lakefront Festival of the Arts where he saw the Wild Magnolias from New Orleans as well as drummer Babatunde Olatunji and fell in love with the style and sound.

Cebar graduated from Pius XI High School in Milwaukee and began performing in coffeehouses on the local folk scene in the mid-1970s. He first fell in love with New Orleans' music scene on a roadtrip in 1977 and has continued to return every year to the Jazz & Heritage Festival.

His repertoire consisted in large part of rhythm and blues and jump blues songs, played solo on his guitar. He attended New College in Sarasota, Florida. Afterwards, he played in New York City while working with the R&B Cadets in Milwaukee.

Throughout the early 1980s, Cebar was a member of a rock and R&B combo, The R&B Cadets, with Jon Sieger, Mike Sieger, Robyn Pluer, Bob Jennings, Juli Wood and Bob Schneider. The band played Sieger's compositions, with obscure songs from the mid-20th century that Cebar had unearthed.

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