LOYY Biographical Information

Some Stats:

Birth: 5/30/73

Height: 6'2"

Weight: 170

Tuxedo: Baby Blue with Ruffle Shirt or Bright Red with Mustard Yellow Shirt and Tie

Eyes: Hazel

Current Employment: owns and operates his own private music lesson studio, and music teacher at St. Pius Elementary School.

Hair: Brown, but almost black with a nasty "Eddie Munster" widow's peak.

Glasses: orangish/yellow

Former/Current Bands: Herc., Metal Porpoise, Fleck/Velat, Eric Kmiec Quartet, Six of One Half Summers, Paul Vee and Latchkey Kids, Herbal Flesh Tea

Paul and his wife, Rosanna, are currently hosting monthly live performances in their home under the name, Salon Miniscule.

He has studied with Don Malone, Stacy Garrop, Dan Schaff, Claude Baker, Susan Botti, Patricia Moorehead, Ilya Levinson, Lee Kesselman and Stuart Folse.

Lord of the Yum-Yum is about giving some maximum happy feelings...feelings of innocence and yesteryear, in a happier time when live entertainers were still part of the world. The 'Lord' is about re-living your childhood through song and dance. Ridiculous in 2007!, Lord of the Yum-Yum sings grind/scat vocal versions of familiar classical pieces, remixes them up with beat-boxing and live electronic loop making techniques, all powered by a wireless mic and old school ruffle tuxedos...it IS the new rock alternative!

As a performer, Lord of the Yum-Yum aka Paul Velat has toured nationally with a concentration on the Midwest and since 1991, he has done many radio and television appearances as well as hundreds of performances around the greater Chicago area.