Paul Sanchez

Paul Sanchez grew up in New Orleans, in the Irish Channel section on First and Constance, a working class Catholic neighborhood populated with hard working, hard living and fun loving German and Irish immigrants. Paul was number 10 of 11 children, raised by his widowed mother Sylvia, along with five brothers and five sisters. Sanchez, along screen writer Colman deKay, just released a musical adaptation of Dan Baum's book, Nine Lives, a New York times Best Seller. Nine Lives is the story of New Orleans in the forty years between Hurricane Betsy in 1965 and Hurricane Katrina in 2005 , as seen through the eyes of nine New Orleanians. The release features the talents of Tony Award winning actor Michael Cerveris and the star of the HBO series Treme, Wendell Pierce as well as actor/director/writer Harry Shearer and New Orleans legends Allen Toussaint, Irma Thomas, his good friend John Boutte', along with over a hundred New Orleans artists. "New Orleans' musical renaissance, so well document