Michael Paul Lund
Writer
Lecturer
Radio Personality

Michael Paul Lund is an accomplished writer of music criticism. His syndicated newspaper column, entitled The Serendipity Nostalgia Report, focuses on legendary entertainers and great American music. He also regularly writes for record companies in the form of extensive biographical liner notes. Some of the 100 artists he has written about include: Rosemary Clooney, Benny Goodman, Jimmy Durante, Mel Torme, Paul Robeson, Doris Day, Johnny Mercer, Hoagy Carmichael, Groucho Marx, Matt Monro, Peggy Lee, Chet Baker, Sinatra, Billie Holiday.

Born in London, England, Lund came to America at an early age with his British parents. As a young man, he began serious vocal studies for an operatic career and studied at the New York Light Opera Guild under Ruth Hand. While serving in the US Navy, including within Vietnam, he sang for the Special Services department. He won the Navy Talent Contest in 1967, and as a result, toured and sang on television. After military service, he traveled the world as a baritone soloist with the world-renowned Russian Don Cossack Choir. Lund has given classical solo recitals at Carnegie Recital Hall in NY, the French Embassy in NY, the Art Alliance in Philadelphia and the Fry Concert Hall in White Plains, and other venues. He has made commercial popular recordings with former members of the NY Tonight Show orchestra, and has written lyrics to many songs. As a businessman, he has been successful in the fields of advertising (newspaper, magazine and radio), public relations (domestic and international catalog sales) and worldwide mail order marketing. Mr. Lund has also regularly written, produced and recorded radio commercials for many companies including his own; the commercials have been broadcast in all fifty states and in Canada. Customer relations, promotion and company visibility are specialties.

Mr. Lund is the founder and first president of the Massenet Society, an organization devoted to the music of the famous French operatic composer, Jules Massenet. Mr. Lund¹s lifelong study and fascination with American popular song and the music industry has established him as a leading authority on the subjects. His sold-out lectures are a testament to his great enthusiasm and knowledge of his subject. In 1977, Lund founded Serendipity Recordings, an international mail order company devoted to music of the 30's, 40's and 50's. He has a radio program entitled, Music and Entertainment News with Michael Paul Lund. Mr. Lund is a regular on-air guest on public radio, including WGBH radio in Boston, where his two-hour programs with Ron Della Chiesa on Great American Music are tremendously popular. Feature stories about Mr. Lund have appeared in countless newspapers and magazines including, USA Today, United Press International, Yankee Magazine (front cover), New Jersey's The Record, Connecticut Magazine, Hartford Courant, New Haven Register, Pensacola News Journal, Middletown Press, Palm Beach Press, Los Angeles Times, Newark Star Ledge, Boston Globe, Memphis Sun and T.V. Guide.

Mr. Lund's four books of collected prose, poetry and short stories, entitled Quiet Thoughts for a Noisy World, are now in print. A new 2007 Japanese/English edition of select pieces from all four Quiet Thought volumes is also available. These books have been voice-recorded on compact disk by Mr. Lund for the National Library for the Blind, and translated into Braille as well. Mr. Lund's other work in progress, entitled Great American Popular Song ­ Its Writers, Its Performers, The Famous and The Forgotten, is devoted to the music, radio and entertainment industry.

In 2008, Mr. Lund will be conducting 90 minute illustrated music lectures entitled:
Paul Robeson (1898-1976).
The Musical Life and Times of a Great Artist
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Michael Lund is available for lectures and radio & television interviews.