Paul married Los Angeles born Elizabeth Christine Peterson on February 22, 1997. They were married in the Center Street Church in Calgary, by Pastor Dr. Henry Schorr. They met when Liz was singing in the Centre Street Church choir. They have a cat (Hank) and dogs (Bai-Leigh and Sampson). Paul continues to please his fans with all his hard work and dedication he puts into his concerts and albums. Paul is involved with many charities and is an active participant in World Vision.

Paul has always loved helping people, especially kids, which is why he became a pedeatric nurse working with sometimes terminally ill children before fulfilling his musical career. He always thinks of others before himself. Paul wrote a story about a little girl in the hospital. Her name was Aimielee. Paul would visit her at the Alberta Children's Hospital frequently. Paul came back home from Nashville and went to visit Aimielee. The first thing she said to him was "Hi Paul! How was your trip to Nashville?". At that moment, as she lay there with tubes in her, and on a life support machine, she thought about anything other than herself. She was more concerned with how Paul was than anything going on in that room. Being a nurse really throws you into the human experience which is exactly what Paul is trying to do through music. While he was working as a nurse, he saw the joys in families bringing a new life into the world, and he also saw pains in families who were dealing with death. The songs that Paul has sung mean so much to people and impact them so profoundly that they talk to Paul after concert shows to say how much that song meant to them, or how it got them through a very difficult time. Paul, the words expressed in your songs are such an inspiration!

Paul's earliest dream was to become a Pediatrician, but soon got turned onto writing songs and singing. He knew his music could touch people, when at his high school graduation he sang 'Amazing Grace' accappella and a few people wiped tears away. There was no looking back for this young man. He worked his way through the talent contests. He worked his way through Mount Royal College in Calgary and became a Pediatric Nurse. He then worked two years at the Alberta's Sick Children Hospital in Calgary, sometimes dealing with terminally ill children. This gave him the drive and the patience to deal with what was to come in the future.

Yet, when a Nashville Record Company approached him about a record deal he had to think about it for a week. He did take it and now has two hit songs to his credit. Including, probably the wedding song of 1996, "I Do". Paul became one of only a few select Canadian artists to completely bypass the Canadian Music Industry to get a record deal.

With all the success he's had in the last year Paul still has his love of taking care of children and people. He is in the planning stages of a multi-bill festival to raise money for various charities. His father has said that Paul has an old soul, able to have long deep conversations. As you listen to the songs he has written on this album you would tend to agree. Paul not only has a soulful, deep voice, but he has the songwriting ability to fill an album of his own.

Much of Paul Brandt's life has been about making a difference in one way or another. "When I was growing up," he says, "I knew that whatever it was that I was going to do, I wanted to make a difference somehow." On his Reprise Records debut, "Calm Before The Storm", Brandt makes a difference indeed, fusing his intro spective nature with a youthful energy and a conviction in songs about passion, love, and even regret. "Outside The Frame", Paul's second album continues maiking a differenece, drawing the listener through the full range of emotions with upbeat, uptempo songs mingled with soul searching ballads.

Born and raised in Calgary, Alberta, and surrounded my cattle ranches and oil refineries, Brandt sang in church as a boy, grew up on gospel music, and took up the guitar in the ninth grade. He recalls that his childhood upbringing and surroundings along with his love for the guitar make country songs come naturally. "It just seemed natural," he says, "with my voice and who I was, and I decided to stick with it."

Late in high school, Brandt began entering talent contests such as the one held at the world renowned Calgary Stampede, fostering an even greater passion for performing his own material as he develped his skills as a song writer. "I never did anything that was so terrifying and at the same time felt like it was what I was supposed to do," he says. He began listening to other successful performers: "The people who really stood out to me were George Strait, Dwight Yoakam, and Clint Black -- country artists with a modern edge."

Brandt won the $1000 prize at the 1992 Stampede and entered other competitions in the United States and Canada. But simultaneously, he was pursuing another career in professional nursing. He comes by the vocation naturally. Brandt's father is a Paramedic, and his mother went back to school to become a Registered Nurse, and Paul soon followed.

Brandt served as a pediaric nurse for two years, working at Alberta's Children's Hospital in Calgary, often with terminally ill children. "You see a lot of things people never see in their whole lives, he says of his experiences," and you're thrown into the human experience-- you're experiencing those emotions with those people. I think a lot of that comes through in my songs."

Fate intervened when Brandt entered a nation wide contest. In the national finals he placed second in performance but won first prize for Best Original Song for "Calm Before the Storm" from SOCAN, the Canadian Performance Society. Warner Music Canada's Kim Cooke was in Hamilton, Ontario for the competition and he contacted Brandt and sent a tape of his songs to Nashville.

The tape that Brandt sent didn't take long to turn heads. He say remembering, "I had a message on my machine from Paige Levy," who had also signed Reprise's Dwight Yoakam, "saying, 'we're coming up to see you so put a showcase together.' That's how I ended up getting my big break." Paul is still turning heads being recognized internationally as one of Country Music's brightest rising stars.

Today Brandt, who lives with his wife in Nashville, sees his musical mission similarly to the one he pursued in nursing. To him, it's all about making a difference. Whether in a hospital, cheering up sick children, meeting one on one with fan club members or performing in front of thousands of country music fans Paul says, "My music is just another way for me to make a difference now, and I look at this whole oppourtunity as a responsibility. This is the gift that I have been given."

Paul's upbringing was pretty normal for a Country musician. His blue-collar grandparents passed down the lessons of "hard work and never giving up", to Paul's parents, to Paul and his two younger sisters. At the tender age of eight his parents decided to pack it in, moving from big city life to raise the family in the rural setting of Airdrie, Alberta, Canada. "It was a great way to grow up, we were never bored," he remembers, smiling. "We would run through the wheat fields chasing mice and each other. You could pretty much watch your dog run away for about three days across those flat prairies."

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