Dr CigZag (aka Paul Sedkowski) is a songwriter/producer, as well as the co-founder of Meer Music International (and MMI Studios), a music and radio production company whose flagship radio show “Fame Games Radio” has been syndicated across the States with ABC Radio Networks between 2006 and 2009. Together with his wife, recording artist Laura Krier, he’s also the co-founder of SIMA (a collaboration between the SIS school in Sotogrande, Spain, and MMI Studios). Paul has been working full time within the music industry for more than 30 years.
Over the years, Paul has developed a vast repertoire of original compositions in virtually all styles of music. From his jazz-rock fusion/prog-rock roots to dance, pop and R&B and everything in-between. He has worked with and/or developed many artists and groups, and has written or co-written well over 5000 songs. He plays piano and keyboards and also has a working and practical knowledge of many other popular instruments, including saxophone, guitar, bass, drums, brass, woodwinds, etc). He is also an expert programmer of popular sequencer programs such as Cubase, Logic, etc, and has a good knowledge of all aspects of studio and recording processes.
Among the over 30 labels and music companies Paul’s worked with are Seabreeze Music, JCPS Songs, JCA Management, Kon Tiki Music, LongLegs Records, Frontier Music, MMI Records, DJL Music, etc. More recently Paul worked with a host of other labels including independents such as SoundzGood (Holland) or Voodoo (Germany), eTraxx, ToCo, and various sub-labels of the three majors (Warner, Sony, Universal). He’s been published through Sony/ATV, Warner/Chappell, Ostereo, HighFashion, and many more.
Among Paul’s past and present friends and professional associates, some long-lasting, some more brief, in no particular order, include long-time partner Hollywood TV director Mary Jane Trokel (Tonight Show, Entertainment Tonight, Solid Gold, Superbowl, etc), long-time partner, manager John Coletta (r.i.p., Deep Purple, Whitesnake, Madonna), partner producer Derek Lawrence (r.i.p., Wishbone Ash, Deep Purple, Hot Chocolate, Milk & Sugar), writing partner Grammy-winning songwriter Rob Davis (Spiller’s Groove Jet, Kylie Minogue, Fragma, Mud, Darts), writing partner Andy Tumi (Point Break, Sugababes, Fishbowl, Supafly), long-time partner Don Wasley (world class music PR guru for KISS, Cher, Lynyrd Skynrd, Donna Summer, etc), songwriter/producer Andy Hayman (All Saints, Appleton), long-time collaborator Dave van Dyke (VP at ABC Radio Networks, CEO Bridge Ratings), manager Miguel Melendez (Mariah Carey, BoyzIIMen, Toni Braxton, Brandy), vocal coach Gary Katona (Babyface, Mariah Carey, Seal, Paula Abdul), artist/songwriter Robin Thicke (Solo work, Jordan Knight), TV Director Dennis Kirkland (Benny Hill, Freddy Starr), composer and former member of Paul’s band Alma Tadema Marcello de Francisci (increasingly influential Hollywood music score writer, Burning Man, Predator, Samsara, Hitman Diaries, etc), James Doman (Ministry of Sound, Vanessa Amorissi), Tosh Darg (Joe), Stefan Mannouris (Honeyz, Brownstone), Kevin Petrie (Des’ree), Martin Hayles (Sade, Will Young, Gareth Gates, Lighthouse Family, Daryl Hall), Grammy-winners Fionn Lucas & Paul Harris (BoyZone, All Saints), Tony Cowell (Simon’s brother), Menshee (DJ, producer) and many others.
Among Paul’s many development artists and past projects are Prince Scandal (#1 airplay hit with “September Song”), Alma Tadema (voted one of top 6 new age fusion bands in the world, by Spain’s Radio III, provided music for the promotions of the Barcelona Olympics ’92 as well as feature music for World Offshore Championships 1992), Kimera (multi-million selling opera-disco star), and pre-production work for a number of Spanish, UK and US labels. Just for fun, Paul’s also took part and won runner-up positions in two of the largest songwriting contests in the World – in 1999 in Latin category in the John Lennon Songwriting Competition, and with 4 songs in various categories in 2003 in the USA Songwriting Contest. More recently, between 2017 and 2025, since forming SIMA, Paul’s had over 60 single releases with his young artists (almost all of whom were developed at SIMA from scratch!), among them a few minor hits on Spotify. While most of these artists were signed by international labels, some were also released independently.
Since co-founding SIMA (which also works with the Berklee School of Music in Boston, Mass., USA) Paul briefly collaborated with such top international acts as Lost Frequencies (on his artist Chia Rose) or Sean Paul (on his artist Karisha), among others (neither was released though).
Apart from music, Paul has worked in computers for many years as a programmer and later manager. In the past he was the IT Director at Consolidated Press’s Kopcke Shipchandling Group and has co-founded a computer company in the late 80’s (PDI SA) which grew to become one of the largest systems houses in Spain at the time. During his nearly 12-year-long (way too restless!) university education, Paul studied Theoretical Physics, English Philology, English Literature, Economics, Music and Sociology. His interests (apart from music and IT) include economics, science, politics, medicine, biology, archeology, psychology, alternative studies and astronomy, among others. Paul was also the managing editor of Sunday Sun (an English-language weekly in the South of Spain in the 90’s) and is a budding author. He’s also a TaeKwonDo black belt, just to round things off nicely.
Early discography (incomplete)
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