Biography

Radio Disc Jockey - Video Producer - Conflict Manager

Computer Artist - Visual EFX Director

Song Writer - Music Producer

Author - Certified Chef

DJ/KJ/VJ

            

    I can’t remember a time in my life without music. I still have a picture of myself around the age of 5 in Largo, Florida at my grandmothers house in the living room standing on the raised platformed “stage” where the front door was. I had grab my grandmothers Elvis albums and placed them behind myself and had both her dogs on either side and rocked out while Elvis was playing in the background. Yeah, The good old days. I guess I knew how to play the fiddle when I was at that age too because I have a picture of myself playing the violin at the popular backyard cookouts that my grandmother would have. She loved her Polka and Elvis, and yes that is what I grew up on, and yes Polka and Elvis are still close to me even though I don’t play them enough.

    1988 was the first time I became a DJ at a birthday party for Kristin Zimmerman, a life long friend, though roommate at the time. I do remember at the age of 17 meeting a guy named David Dene that didn’t like to listen to music, “How could that be”, I use to say to myself, to this day I still don’t understand. Around this time is when I started a Hip/Hop Rock band in San Diego, California. I had a very talented vocalist named Davie-D. We named our band 2 Damn Hype. I brought our music to Channel 933 FM Radio where they played our hit song “Paid” which was requested by local fans for months. It even spread as far as NY, USA. We went on to win The San Diego Music Awards in 1990. I quit the band that night since they brought in dancers and too many band members plus changing the sound into Reggae. I continued to play in several bands and even producing my own solo album which I played all the instruments on my own. Around 1992 I wrote a fantasy novel called "Cerebellum",still unpublished, around 450 pages.

    By 18 I owned my own business as a locksmith, and one night I placed antenna wires all over the top ceiling of my music recording studio and picked up stations from all over Los Angeles and back to Cable Radio in San Diego where I heard a disc jockey by the name of “Mad Mike” Michael Pratt. We had no idea we’d become life long friends. He invited me to KCR Cable Radio Studio on the campus of San Diego State University. He taught me everything about becoming a DJ on the air. He called me his “pet clone” when we were on the air at KCR. My Girlfriend at the time Elisabeth Gibson (Now Lifelong Friend) gave me the name P2 “P(squared)” since my first and last name started with the letter P - That was then used as my DJ name on the radio. Then after a few attempts of creating bands and writing songs for a couple demos for "2DamnHype"(Rap) and "S.L.A.M."(Hardcore Metal),  I put it all away to place my attention towards my daughter named Cassandra Marie at the age of 25.

    When I turned 30 years old I moved back home to Largo, Florida to get back to my family roots. A few years later I took a culinary course and became a head chef for a few years. By 38 I was asked by a local bar owner of Bogart’s Oasis to replace a local karaoke host that had passed away in a car accident. Here is where I learned a lot about the life of a DJ. The owner would let me do anything, so I experimented with all kinds of lights and ideas. We would have events like Country Night, Oldies Night (which I transformed a timed event as of the movie Grease). Psychedelic Night, where it had taken me well over $600 of my own money and a year to learn the secrets of how to become a visual effects producer, bringing in the style of a liquid light show, a rare art that has been lost since the early 1970’s. I also run a large video projection of music videos/visual effects onto a screen as large as 216 inches (18 Feet) the largest in the Tampa Bay Area! I produce a lot of my own videos that I personally edit and remix for quality and good sound. I was involved in a charity event/TV production for a TV Series called “So You Wanna Own A Restaurant” which is still in production. I have done some work on Logos for companies that I DJ for including Bogart’s - Sportsters Bar & Grill - My Place Lounge. I had started my own business in 2007 and named it after my old karaoke stage name “paulywood” to djpaulywood.com which I have played many of businesses which include:

Sportsters Bar & Grill

The Little Pub

Yearly:

Travel World RV Park

U.S. Army

Willowbrook Condos

Past:

Bogart’s Liquor Lounge

Applebee’s Restaurant

Marsha’s Wayside Inn

Dakotas Grill & Bar

Gunslinger’s Saloon

My Place Restaurant & Lounge

U.S. Army

Mac Dill Air Force Base

So You Wanna Own A Restaurant TV Series

J.M. & D.’s South Beach Tiki Bar Grille

localsonly.com

vansageproduction.com

Suncoast Seabird Sanctuary

Special Operations

I have over 80,000 songs and over 9,000 music videos plus over 20,000 Karaoke songs and growing with all the new titles every week. I have all kinds of Genres including the following:
Alternative - Country - Hip Hop - Pop - R&B - Rock - Techno - Dubstep etc.

updated:12-09-2011