Paul Costa tells me when we chat that he has been to Tasmania ‘a dozen times or more’, that includes ‘performing at Agfest, various festivals in Launceston and the Burnie hotel’.
Indeed Paul has been on the road for 10 years accompanied by his wife and son Dylan, now six and his two year old daughter.
His music is backed by living the experience of rural life.
The name Costa means ‘constant, steadfast’ and Paul Costa is someone who has been constant and steadfast in his musical career right up to his latest album ‘Whisper in the crowd’ and his first single from the album ‘Off the grid’.
‘Off the grid’ takes the listener to a simpler time ‘when life was more real’, sans the moving at a fast speed and attachment to technology of the present. It’s a trip to the real Australia, one lived close to nature.
Of the album, which was four years in the making, Paul has written nine of the 12 songs and has performed them at 21st’s and weddings.
Whisper in the Crowd is out now.
Paula Xiberras
