Born in Amsterdam, Holland, Paul attended the Amsterdam Conservatory before moving to New York to be closer to the American music scene.



He currently lives in the San Francisco Bay Area. A member of the Andy Narell Group, Mark Levine & the Latin Tinge, the Pete Escovedo Band, the Ray Obiedo Group, Los Mocosos, and John Santos and the Machete Ensemble.



He has performed and recorded with Stan Getz, Angela Bofill, Jan Akkerman, Bill Summers, The Whispers, Sadao Watanabe, Sheila E., Dave Samuels, Tom Grant, Henry Kaiser, Cornelius Bumpus, Henry Butler, Kenny Rankin, The Caribbean Jazz Project with Paquito D’Rivera, Tito Puente, Second Sight, Jeff Linsky, Marc Russo, Tom Coster, Omar Sosa, Gonzalo Rubalcaba, Claudia Villela and Ricardo Peixoto, Nestor Torres, Jovino Santos Neto and Dori Caymmi.