Other Chris Paul making his own name on, off football field
13.05.2022 - 09:23
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football player knows he shares a name with a much more famous athlete.“There might be another named Chris Paul,” he said with a grin. “I think he plays basketball — I’m not sure.”While the veteran NBA guard guides the Phoenix Suns on another playoff run, the other Chris Paul is trying to make a name for himself on and off the football field.
Drafted by the Washington Commanders, the 6-foot-4, 324-pound guard is also an artist who just released his first music video and has 100 more songs in the vault while he embarks on his NFL career.“There’s what I’m doing right now, my passion as an NFL football player, and then there’s that,” Paul said. “They’re on completely different ends of the spectrum, and I feel like that really sums up my personality and me as a person.”It’s not uncommon for athletes to branch out creatively into the entertainment industry, some with more success than others.
Paul’s musical interests predate sports: Long before he started playing football at 13, he hummed as a baby so much his parents asked their doctor what was going on.The doctor told Paul and Victoria Unawunwa that Chris would probably be musically inclined. He was involved in choirs growing up and worried he’d be done with music when he started playing college football at Tulsa.Instead, he and running back Corey Taylor met while working on a Christmas jingle for the university in late 2019.
After working with Paul for a day or so, Taylor thought, “Let’s get him back in the studio and see what else we can come up with.”The two have so far released two singles and their first music video, “Mother Nature,” which premiered last month, a few days before Paul was drafted. There’s much more where that came from, with the two hoping to release
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