Paul Augustin is the recipient of the 17th Boh Cameronian Arts Awards Gamechanger.
However, this veteran humbly brushes off the very notion of himself as a gamechanger. “I would consider myself as a calculated risk-taker. However, it’s nice when people recognise your work and I get the chance to tell my story.”When speaking to FMT recently, this 60-year-old “confessed” about a bad habit he has never been able to shake off – his inexplicable need to pursue an idea, no matter how crazy, until its fruition.
If it wasn’t for Augustin’s perseverance, Penang would have never played host to Malaysia’s longest running annual jazz festival, which attracts thousands of visitors from all over the world today. Paul delivering a presentation on the Penang Island Jazz Festival as a case study at the Asean-Korea Arts Forum 2014.
“Take Ed Sheeran for example. He is a one-man guitar player and singer. This one-man trend actually started a long time ago and it then evolved to the formation of bands which eventually became electronics and now we’re back to one-man musicians. It’s gone one full circle. He explained that before Covid-19, Malaysian musicians only needed to compete with other local musicians but the pandemic forced them to go online in search of revenue options and compete on an international scale.
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