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	Genghis Blues
		Paul is well known to Friends of Tuva as "Cher Shimjer" (Earthquake), one half of the band Genghis Blues (with Kongar-ol Ondar), and he is also known in the blues world and in the rock world.
		The official Paul Pena website is up and has the latest news on Paul.
		Once Upon a Time, by Paul Pena, is the tale of his journey through the world of throat singing.
	www.fotuva.org /gb (419 words)

	Paul Pena - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Pena was completely blind by the time he was 20.
		Pena attended a performance of Tuvan throat-singing at the Asian Art Museum of San Francisco on February 6, 1993.
		Pena died in his San Francisco, California apartment of complications from diabetes and pancreatitis on October 1, 2005.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Paul_Pena (1217 words)

	Guardian Unlimited Arts \| Arts news \| Paul Pena
		The American musician Paul Pena, who has died aged 55, became an unlikely icon when the award-winning documentary Genghis Blues, charting his quest to sing in the Central Asian republic of Tuva, was hailed as a popular success.
		Pena was born in Massachusetts, to parents who had immigrated to the US from the Cape Verde islands.
		Pena spent increasing periods of time caring for his wife Babe, who was suffering from kidney failure (and died in 1991).
	arts.guardian.co.uk /news/obituary/0,12723,1587052,00.html?gusrc=rss (589 words)

	Paul Pena Dies : Soul Shine Magazine
		Paul Pena, a guitarist and songwriter best known for penning Steve Miller’s Top 10 hit “Jet Airliner”, died Saturday in San Francisco due to complications from diabetes and pancreatitis.
		Pena reportedly was able to live off the royalties generated by the success of the 1977 hit until his death.
		Pena was born with partially blind and was hampered by illness throughout his life.
	www.soulshine.ca /news/newsarticle.php?nid=2628 (249 words)

	Six Degrees Records - Soundtracks
		Pena teaches himself the technique, meets a touring group of Tuvans almost ten years later, is invited back to Tuva and wins the national singing competition.
		Paul Pena, took first place as an undertone singer, at the international Khoomei Symposium and contest, held in Tuva's capital city, Kyzyl in 1995, where his Tuvan hosts gave him the nickname "Earthquake" for his amazingly deep voice.
		Pena makes it clear that the real reward of his trip to Tuva was not winning the competition (the prize was a horse), but the memories of a warm and welcoming people.
	www.sixdegreesrecords.com /compilations.php?group=Soundtracks (3040 words)

	Paul Pena, 55; blues guitarist mastered Tuvan throat-singing - The Boston Globe
		Paul Pena, a guitarist, songwriter, and vocalist whose brilliance shone through a prism of hardships, including blindness and a quarter century of health and career setbacks, died Saturday from complications of diabetes and pancreatitis.
		Pena was best known as the writer of the late 1970s rock hit ''Jet Airliner," which was recorded by the Steve Miller Band.
		Pena developed his love for music from his father, a jazz musician, and from a piano his family had hauled out a dump on Cape Cod.
	www.boston.com /news/globe/obituaries/articles/2005/10/05/paul_pena_55_blues_guitarist_mastered_tuvan_throat_singing (897 words)

	CharityFocus: Helping Others Help Others
		Paul Pena is the son of immigrants from Cape Verde, West Africa, and lives in San Francisco where he plays a unique blend of Mississippi Delta blues, Cape Verdian folk, and Tuvan throat
		Paul first heard a fragment of harmonic singing on a shortwave Radio Moscow broadcast on December 29, 1984 and he was so struck by it, he spent almost eight years trying to track down its source.
		Paul Pena was born on January 26, 1950 in Hyannis, MA, the oldest child of Jack and Virginia Pena.
	www.charityfocus.org /rsvp/h/paul.html (771 words)

	Paul Pena: Paul Pena Fund
		Consequently he had huge medical expenses which are still owed to a few small businesses here in San Francisco.
		These entities were very kind to Paul and we very much would like to dissolve these debts asap.
		Write: "For Paul Pena Fund" on memo line of check.
	www.paulpena.com /paulfund.html (71 words)

	MetroActive Music \| Paul Pena
		It took years to track down (the radio announcer had given the wrong pronunciation of the singer's origin), but Pena eventually figured out that the strange sounds he heard that night were the work of a polyphonic throat-singer from the isolated Republic of Tuva in Central Asia.
		Pena, who mastered the low resonant kargyraa throat-singing style, was dubbed "The Earthquake" by the Tuvans.
		Pena, who also contributed to the critically acclaimed 1997 CD compilation Deep in the Heart of Tuva: Cowboy Music from the Wild East (Ellipsis Arts), is helping spread the gospel about the arcane vocal technique he mastered, which until recently had been deemed impossible by most musicologists.
	www.metroactive.com /papers/sonoma/03.15.01/pena-0111.html (541 words)

	B12 Partners Solipsism: Paul Pena RIP
		Pena because of the 1999 Academy Award-nominated documentary “Genghis Blues,” which tells the story of how he took up throat singing, culminating with an eventful trip to the Central Asian country Tuva, where he won awards in a throat singing competition.
		Paul Pena, a San Francisco blues artist who mastered the arcane art of Tuvan throat singing, died Saturday from complications of diabetes and pancreatitis.
		Pena was born to a family of Cape Verdean background in Hyannis, Mass.
	www.b12partners.net /mt/archives/2005/10/paul_pena_rip.html (803 words)

	Cabo Verde Online - Paul Pena, Genghis Blues, New Train, Hybrid - Anne Treseder
		Paul told me that he became “completely” blind when he was approximately 20 years old, and found that he could no longer see or distinguish light.
		Babe Pena died in 1991, leaving Paul with a blues that was as deep as the songs he had sung.
		After Paul had been left to wait for death for almost a year, and had said many painful goodbyes, a new doctor retested him and found that he did not have pancreatic cancer after all, but acute pancreatitis—serious, but not necessarily a death sentence.
	www.caboverdeonline.com /contents/my_community/2005/10/04/pp100605.asp (1175 words)

	Paul Pena (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
		Paul Pena’s "New Train" is one of those gems of a find.
		Though I’d personally never heard of Pena until I got this release, one listen to his voice and there is an undeniable attraction to his style.
		Pena had been making some changes in his life at the time, including moving from the New England area to San Francisco.
	www.swaves.com /Back_Issues/Nov00/Paul_Pena.htm (513 words)

	Rolling Stone : Paul Pena Dead at 55
		Legendary folk-blues singer-guitarist Paul Pena died in San Francisco on October 1st from complications related to diabetes and pancreatitis.
		In 1984, Pena was reintroduced to the music scene when he became interested in throat singing after hearing a broadcast from Tuva, in southern Siberia, on a shortwave radio.
		Pena was invited by Kongar-Ol Ondar, one of the world's foremost throat singers, to participate in Tuva's annual competition.
	www.rollingstone.com /news/story/7685145/paul_pena_dead_at_55 (320 words)

	Paul Pena (1950 - 2005)
		Pena, a songwriter, singer and musician, is known throughout the world thanks to the documentary film about him called Genghis Blues.
		The film, which explored Pena's discovering and mastery of Tuvan throat singing, won the Audience Award at the Sundance Film Festival in 1999.
		Pena, who was blind since birth and had perfect pitch, performed with Tuvan throat singer Kongar-ol Ondar at the first ASCAP Music Café at Sundance the year the film was shown.
	www.ascap.com /press/2005/100405_pena.html (193 words)

	Got To Be Movin' On \| The A.V. Club
		I was saddened to learn today that Paul Pena died on Saturday after an extended illness.
		Later, he introduced himself to the Tuvan musical community in style when he showed up at a concert by the most successful of the Tuvan musical groups, Huun Huur Tu, and amazed the band during the intermission with a perfect rendition of a Tuvan folk song they were scheduled to sing in the second set.
		Paul greeted me very warmly at the door, wearing an ever-present smile and offering, as payment for my services, a copy of his most recent CD with Kongar-ol Ondar.
	www.avclub.com /content/node/41404 (1126 words)

	Paul Pena -- star of 1999 documentary 'Genghis Blues' (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
		Pena, almost completely blind since birth and plagued by illnesses most of his life, lived off the royalties from that hit.
		Pena is survived by his parents, Jack and Virginia Pena of Cape Cod, Mass., and two brothers, Jim of Lynnfield, Mass., and Peter.
		Pena's life will be announced at a later date on www.paulpena.com.
	www.sfgate.com /cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/c/a/2005/10/04/BAGVPF28KH1.DTL&type=printable (570 words)

	CVMusicWorld.com \| Music \| Paul Pena Dies
		Paul Pena, the Capeverdean-American blues musician, died at his San Francisco apartment on Sunday October 2nd following a long battle with pancreatic cancer and Diabetes.
		For the past eight years, Paulâs health and quality of life had been greatly declining and had to endure constant state of pain.
		Originally from Cape Cod, MA, Paul was born in 1950 with congenital glaucoma and was completely blind by the age of twenty.
	www.cvmusicworld.com /news_articles/templates/music.aspx?articleid=493&zoneid=1 (142 words)

	dOc DVD Review: Genghis Blues (1999)
		The Tuvans were impressed by Pena's seemingly natural ability to master their native art form, and they dubbed him "Chershemjer", which translates as "Earthquake." Pena was personally invited to attend triennial throat-singing contest to be held in Tuva in 1995.
		Pena's warm acceptance by the Tuvan people, something that he sadly lacked in his home country, is a dominant undercurrent in this film, and it is difficult to forget.
		The struggles of blind bluesman Paul Pena and his journey to the tiny country of Tuva is not only inspirational and touching, it's educational, to boot.
	www.digitallyobsessed.com /showreview.php3?ID=1915 (1086 words)

	Everything Else In Review
		Watching Paul compete against Tuvans who've trained their entire lives to be in a national competition is worth the trip to the art house theater to see Genghis Blues.
		Paul's also on medication for depression, and during the course of filming the documentary in Tuva, his prescription runs out.
		Paul keeps the demons of his depression at bay by doing what he does best: he sings the blues about being stranded in Central Asia.
	www.cosmik.com /aa-september99/everything52.html (1671 words)

	Jazz News: Bluesman, throat singer Paul Pena dead at 83 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
		Pena also is familiar to audiences for the 1999 Academy Award-nominated documentary “Genghis Blues,” which tells the story of how he took up Tuvan throat singing.
		Pena, almost completely blind since birth and plagued by illnesses most of his life, was born in Hyannis, Mass.
		Pena is survived by his parents, Jack and Virginia Pena of Harwich, Mass., and two brothers, Jim of Lynnfield, Mass., and Peter of Bridgewater, Mass.
	www.allaboutjazz.com /php/news.php?id=7532 (438 words)

	Dave Lucas' Archives: Paul Pena, R.I.P. (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
		native Paul Pena was a guitarist, songwriter and vocalist.
		Paul Pena became interested in something called Tuvan throat singing when he heard a Tuvan broadcast on his shortwave radio in 1984.
		Said Pena: "The music was so strange I thought my radio was broken." Later he acquired a Tuvan record, playing it countless times until he learned how to throat sing, which involves producing several distinct vocal-cord sounds simultaneously.
	capitalregionpeople.blogspot.com /2005/10/paul-pena-rip.html (878 words)

	Paul Pena: 1950-2005 Sing Out! The Folk Song Magazine - Find Articles (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
		The 1999 Academy Award-nominated documentary film Genghis Blues brought blind Paul Pena notoriety and admiration worldwide for his remarkable achievements as a musician, most notably for having taught himself the various vocal methods and multi-tonal modalities of traditional Tuvan throat singing.
		Pena, whose grandparents came from the Cape Verde Islands, died on October 1st from complications of diabetes and acute pancreatitis in his adopted San Francisco hometown.
		However, the Pena album that the song appeared on was shelved and after his wife, Babe, started suffering from kidney failure he gave up his career to care for her.
	www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_m1197/is_4_49/ai_n15933299 (603 words)

	Jet Airliner by The Steve Miller Band Songfacts
		This was written by Paul Pena, a blind folk singer from Cape Cod.
		Pena played the Newport Folk Festival in 1969, but was unable to launch a successful career.
		Paul retired in the 70's from the music industry to take care of his ill wife.
	www.songfacts.com /detail.php?id=1100 (545 words)

	Richard’s Notes » Blog Archive » Genghis Blues and Paul Pena
		Paul Pena is a blind jazz guitar player from San Francisco who found out about Tuvan throat singing (overtone singing) scanning on his short wave radio.
		i was moved by paul pena and feel more hopeful today due to watching the filmed account of his tuvan experience.
		Paul Pena’s experiences and spiritual odyssey with his Tuvan mentors was absolutely enriching and educational for me. His incredible insight and “sixth sense” being sightless was very enlightening and incredulous!
	www.richardsnotes.org /archives/2005/07/20/genghis-blues-and-paul-pena (897 words)

	Review (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
		I wrote about San Francisco bluesman Paul Pena on these screens when the film Genghis Blues was up for an Academy Award last Spring.
		Paul was the subject of this excellent documentary, which chronicled his dreams of learning the Tuvan language so that he could compete in the annual throat-singing contest in Mongolia.
		I prefer Paul's bluesy and ragged "Jet Airliner" over the polished, top-40 tune Steve Miller turned into gold (although that songwriting gold has literally kept Pena alive in his struggle against cancer over the years).
	www.cosmik.com /aa-march01/reviews/review_paul_pena.html (247 words)

	Rolling Stone : Paul Pena: New Train : Music Reviews
		Pena, in fact, has been tough to find since 1973, when he recorded "Gonna Move" and the other nine tunes on New Train for what was to be his second Capitol LP.
		Produced by Ben Sidran, the tapes were shelved when Pena, a blind folk-blues singer from New England, left the music business to tend to his ailing wife.
		Pena's voice is a blast of fresh air, a hearty instrument of sorrow and joy dusted with finely ground grit.
	rollingstone.com /artists/paulpena/albums/album/97086/review/5945550 (400 words)

	PAUL PENA
		The record company is looking for photos of Paul to possibly use on the CD cover as well as in the liner notes and other promotional material.
		Paul Pena is the son of immigrants from Cape Verde, West Africa, and lives in San Francisco where he plays a unique blend of Mississippi Delta blues, Cape Verdian folk, and Tuvan throat music.
		Paul Pena played blues with the greats T-Bone Walker, B.B. King, and Bonnie Raitt.
	www.genghisblues.com /paul (176 words)

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