Paul Tazewell
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386 appearances
4 recordings
3 series
first heard Mar 2025
last heard 7 Jun
Paul Tazewell’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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imagery as I think about, you know, other projects that I'm designing.
There are other films as well.
I mean, if you think about Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory or you think about Mary Poppins or Cinderella at Disney.
I mean, so at that time, all of those magical stories, all those movies were folded into our, you know, just our family culture, you know, and what we would watch for entertainment.
That's right.
You know, I think that I was always transfixed by crafts and working with my hands.
And my mother, you know, I was always, you know, right at her side, you know, as she would draw and paint.
Or early on in my life, she was making puppets and doing puppet shows with her sister.
and with my older cousins, they would create these puppet shows for libraries in and around Akron for the schools and for the church.
And so I was really fully connected and engaged with what they were doing and that kind of crafting.
And so in some way that fed into my desire to create, to work with my hands.
I think that creating clothing was just the next step.
You know, my mother had a Singer sewing machine and she would set it up and she would make
costumes and clothing for us, you know, my brothers and myself.
Also, she was making things for herself.
And then, you know, it was just a skill that I wanted to have so that I could start to create things for myself.
So I would make dashikis and different kinds of clothing, you know, shorts.
And, you know, it's just a way of, you know, it was an activity.
At that time, I had not let go of performance.
But, you know, in 1978, The Wiz came out as a film.
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