Paul Cohen

There are 2 persons who are or have been active in the music world.

1 Paul Cohen (Jazz musician), an American tenor saxophonist, multi-instrumentalist, producer and long time collaborator with Lila Downs and joining them in the studio and on stage is harpist Celso Duarte. Paul met Lila in 1994 when he was working as a clown and juggler in a circus in Oaxaca. After 1994’s La Ofrenda and 1996 Azuláo, they released their first successful album for Narada label in 1999: La Sandunga. The couple gained more and more publicity and fame all over the world due to lots of touring. They expect to release another album in fall 2010.

2 Paul Cohen (November 10, 1908 - April 1, 1970) was a country music producer also from USA.

Cohen first entered the record business with Columbia in the late 1920s, but in 1934 joined Decca’s newly formed American operation, organized by two brothers, Jack and Dave Kapp—old Chicago friends of his. Cohen moved to Cincinnati to become Decca’s midwestern branch manager in 1935; in this role he was responsible for scouting and signing new talent in addition to marketing records. During World War II, he gradually took over Decca’s hillbilly production work from Dave Kapp, and in the mid-1940s moved to New York to head that branch of the company. Kitty Wells, Webb Pierce, Brenda Lee, Patsy Cline, and Bobby Helms were among the new acts signed to Decca during Cohen’s tenure, while Ernest Tubb, Red Foley, Jimmie Davis, and others continued to have success with the label.