Paul Masvidal

Paul Albert Masvidal is the guitarist, singer and a founding member of the progressive metal band Cynic and previously led the alternative rock band on Spoke. As of September 2015, the status of Cynic is in dispute.

Paul Masvidal was born in Puerto Rico to CubanAmerican civic and business leader Raul Masvidal. Masvidals early days were spent in the Miami area where he studied classical guitar from an early age with Carlos Molina. Guitar teacher Dave Weissbrot was a major influence and spurred Masvidals love of jazz, Steinberger guitars, and Eastern philosophy he became an initiate to Kriya Yoga in his late teens and has been a Buddhist practitioner since 2000, although he has more recently gotten in touch with his roots in Judaism. Masvidal met drummer Sean Reinert in 1984 at Gulliver Academy and immediately started jamming with him, forming the preCynic Crypha and Seaweed.

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