Inducted into the Weightlifting Hall of Fame: November 15, 2024
As a youth in New Iberia, Louisiana, Paul was drawn from an early age to the performing arts and demonstrated his talents as a successful sleight-of-hand performer, wowing audiences young and old throughout the area. He also found an outlet for his passion for music and performance when he originated three very popular local rock bands, (the Lil Bits, the Gravel Road, and the Sheetrock Music Company) in which he was lead singer and played guitar.
Following the call of music, he attended USL as a voice major, with a minor in piano. majored in voice and minored in piano. His creative talents were not to be outdone by his physical abilities, as he was also a member of the 1968 NCAA National Championship Weightlifting Team.
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After college, Paul’s work career offered a wide variety of successful experiences including drafting, sales, carpet installation, computers, but most fulfilling, Gospel music ministry. As Music Director for Lafayette, Louisiana’s East Bayou Baptist Church, and later, First Assembly of God, Paul enjoyed the success of many Gospel music concerts and theatrical productions.
A professional actor and singer now for over 30 years, his natural showmanship and dynamic presence has garnered him numerous key roles in opera and musical theater productions in the area. He’s released five popular albums of original recordings and has made numerous television appearances on both the national and local level. In 1995, Paul began a new venture, performing a musical tribute to one of his favorite singers, Frank Sinatra. With a state-of-the-art sound and lighting system, he enjoyed presenting evenings of some of Ol Blue Eyes greatest hits, as well as a few Big Band standards,. Now residing in Lafayette, Louisiana, he continues to record and produce others in his own private recording facility, PM Music Studio.
Paul’s wife (pictured above) is Marilyn Muffoletto