Born into a music-loving family, Paul Bogart, the second of three children was born on October 13, 1982, in Tulsa, Oklahoma. His father Jack, owned and ran a small trucking company while his mother Patti, stayed at home and raised the children. "During the week Mom would practice the old hymns on her piano," as she was one of the pianists at Bethel Baptist Church. When Paul was eight years old he received a harmonica for Christmas and was encouraged by his parents to learn "Amazing Grace" so he could play it at church on a Sunday evening. "This was my first experience performing in front of a crowd of people and at eight years old I remember being so scared, and shaking so badly that I thought my knees were going to give out." At this young age, Paul, his younger brother Phillip, and older sister Brenda all learned their harmony parts from the old hymns played by their mother. Life was happening fast at the Bogart house. In Oologah, Oklahoma, a small town north east of Tulsa, their small ranch was a wonderful place to be raised. Jack began teaching Paul the basics of team roping and by the age of twelve the two were hitting the trail during the summers competing in the United States Team Roping Championships. "The summer of '95 Dad and I probably traveled at least 8,000 or 9,000 miles competing in all the US ropings we could before school started back in the fall." Between the two of them Bogart says they won at least two or three saddles that year. During junior high, and high school Bogart was more interested in roping and football than he was in music. He not only competed in American Quarter Horse shows, but was the quarterback of the high school football team for the Oologah Mustangs. Bogart loved the camaraderie with his brother Phillip. "Phillip was my back-up quarterback, my little brother, and probably my best friend," he said. "My senior year I broke my leg in one of our preseason games, and for six weeks while my leg healed, I got to watch him start in what I thought was my place." Paul said that it really wasn't until his freshman year of college that he started playing music with a band." Bogart went to school at Connors State College on a rodeo scholarship in Warner, Oklahoma, then graduated from Rogers State University in Claremore, Oklahoma with a degree in Business Management. It was during those years that he recorded his first album in a small studio in Muskogee, with the help of one of his professors, Norman Stauffer. On the weekends he wasn't competing in college rodeos or AQHA shows, he was playing gigs around Tulsa and Oklahoma City. He started taking his music more seriously booking venues such as The Cain's Ballroom and the Lazy E Arena. It was during the latter years of college that he actually started considering music as a potential career. Paul moved to Nashville after graduating in May of 2005. "It was a crazy but exciting first summer," Bogart remembers. "Phillip moved out there with me so I'd know at least one person in Nashville!" The two hit the ground running, networking and trying to co-write with other songwriters in town. A short three months later Phillip headed back to Oklahoma where he was a student at OSU; Paul stayed in Nashville pursuing his career. The following Christmas Bogart went home for the holidays and proposed to his high school sweetheart, Tanya Harrington. They married in July of 2006. "She is my constant source of encouragement," Bogart says. "In an industry where no one seems certain about anything, I am certain that the two of us are here doing exactly what we're supposed to be doing. How ever exciting my music career might be, I know that we have to take it one day at a time, one deep breath at a time." As the listener can tell, Paul's music has been greatly influenced by the rodeo world, Christian values and the great old country classics. It is this style of country music that truly characterizes Paul Bogart as an artist. "I love to sing about real life. Lots of the songs I write and sing are just stories that have happened to me or people who are close to me." Bogart continues to write and sing songs with the kind of authenticity about life that people love to hear.