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This multitalented singer songwiter and musician (plays guitar,piano,bantar,and more has decided to go back to the basis of American Popular music "The Blues" and use this as venue to share hislove of music and spead his message of Peace to the masses. He had influences of James Brown, Jimi Hendrix and Richie Havens but decided to go back a little further to artists like Lightning Hopkins,B.B.King, Mississippi John Hurt, Furry Lewis for some inspiration. His contempoary influences have been Taj Mahal amd Keb Mo'. He has self produced seven albums of original blues music over the past 9 years. Extended stays in Lousiana put him in tune with the Delta sound. He has played international in the countries of Germany, France and extended stay in Switzerland where he played the Lucerne Blues Festival from 1996-2001. His infectious musical style is a delight to people all over the world. From the coffeehouses of Bowling Green State University-Ohio in the 70's , to Southern California in the 80's to Switzerland and back he has played with numerous bands while still continuing his solo works.

Paul has written a large volume of music he labels "The People's Music" Miles won the Detroit Blues Society 1st Solo Performer of the Year award in 2002. he represented Michigan at the blues First International Competition and convention in Memphis, Tenn in Jan 2003. His CD titled 'A Peace of the BLues was nominated by the Detroit Music Awards 2005 for Best R&B/Blues Recording as well as best Blues writer. He was also nominated by "Great Stuff to do-2005, internet news magazine affliated with WWJ local 950am as best Entertainer for 2005, among those nominated were Kid Rock,Anita Baker, Eminen,and Alexander Zonchik. He was nominated for 2005 release Deep Water Blues for 7 final nominations for the 2006-Detroit Music Awards, including Best Album in two catergories Acoustic/Folk and Blues/R&B. In 2007 in March he was nominated for 8 more individual awards in both acoustic/folk/blues as instrumentalist ,vocalist, and songwriter. He won his first Detroit Music Award for being the best folk/acoustic instrumentalist in all of Detroit. He released on Nov 26 -2007 latest CD "Steppin Out" with 16 new original songs. On April 25 , 2008 He received 3 Detroit Music Awards for Best Blues/R&B Album/Best Blues/R&B Songwriter and Best Blues Instrumentalist. In 2009 he again was voted outstanding Blues&R&B songwriter for his 5th Detroit Music Award. His latest recording effort has been to write a song for Detroit named "Motown Still Our Town", this was released on Jan 18, 2009. This song has a host of outstanding Detroit Talent from the Original Vandellas (Annete Helton&Rosalind Holmes), Barbara Payton, Jill Jack, Carolyn Striho, Tracy Kash Thomas, Nadir, Scott Dailey, Kroon, Pato, Billy Furman, Chris Spooner, Big Al ,Ken Murphy,Sonnie Day, Luther "Badman" Keith,Terrie Lea, Joey Spina, Joe Neely,Michael On Fire,Khary WAE Frazier and Paul Miles. It was recorded at www.1440collective.com The song will be used a fundraiser for the city which has fallen on hard times but will rise with the spirit of the people. Paul recently won a competition in Marietta Blues Society-Blues Festival in Ohio for best solo/duo performer and will peform in the International BLues Competition in,Memphis,Tennessee-Jan 2010.

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Five Time Detroit Music Award Winner Paul Miles and 7-Time Detroit Music Award Nominee Carolyn Striho at Memphis Smoke-Sunday Jan 17, 2010

Five Time Detroit Music Award Winner Paul Miles and 7-Time Detroit Music Award Nominee Carolyn Striho at Memphis Smoke-Sunday Jan 17, 2010

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Sunday, Jan 17, 2010-8pm, Memphis Smoke presents “The Send Off Show," Detroit Music Award Winner Paul Miles and seven time Detroit Music Award Nominee-Carolyn Striho will be presenting a dynamic concert to kick-off their events in 2010

Miles is going to compete in the International Blues Competition in Memphis, Tennessee and Carolyn will be going to Copenhagen to perform. Both have new CD's respectively “Blue Collar Man" and “Honesty" released in 2009. They will do selections from those latest efforts. ...

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Detroit's Favorite, Five Time Detroit Music Award Winner Paul Miles to Play Columbus, Oh, March 28

Detroit's Favorite, Five Time Detroit Music Award Winner Paul Miles to Play Columbus, Oh, March 28

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Special blues event features the band and solo winners of the 2009 River City Ohio Blues Competition.

On Saturday, March 28, Detroits celebrated musician Paul Miles will team up with Award-winning Columbus act Long Tall Deb and the Drifter Kings for a special blues presentation at the Thirsty Ear Tavern in Columbus, Ohio, from 9:30pm-1am.

This will be the first in a series of shows in Detroit, Columbus, and Marietta throughout 2009 as they get ready to compete in the ...

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Paul Miles, Detroit Music Award Winner 2008 to Host 3rd Annual Charity Event at the Memphis Smoke

Paul Miles, Detroit Music Award Winner 2008 to Host 3rd Annual Charity Event at the Memphis Smoke

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Paul Miles, Detroit Music Award Winner 2008 to Host 3rd Annual Charity Event at the Memphis Smoke, Sunday November 9, 2008 The “Help your Neighbor Project" will assist Paul Miles , Detroit Music Award Winner-2008 twill host his 3rd Annual Charity Event at the Memphis Smoke, Sunday November 9, 2008, 7pm-10pm.

Artists scheduled and donating their time, The Harmonica Shah Band, legendary blues artist- Lifetime Achievement Winner Detroit Blues Society, travels internationally: Luther “Badman" Keith, Detroit Music Award Winner , ...

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Paul Miles, Detroit Music Award Winner 2008 to Host 3rd Annual Charity Event at the Memphis Smoke, Sunday November 9, 2008

Paul Miles, Detroit Music Award Winner 2008 to Host 3rd Annual Charity Event at the Memphis Smoke, Sunday November 9, 2008

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The “Help your Neighbor Project" will assist

Paul Miles , Detroit Music Award Winner-2008 will host his 3rd annual charity event at the Memphis Smoke, Sunday November 9, 2008, 7pm-10pm.

Artists scheduled and donating their time include:

The Harmonica Shah Band, legendary blues artist- Lifetime Achievement Winner Detroit Blues Society, travels internationally Luther “Badman" Keith, Detroit Music Award Winner , Detroit Blues Society Best Blues Band Award Winner Tracy Kash Thomas Trio- 3-time Detroit ...

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