Paul Hardcastle has been one of the best-selling smooth jazz artists in the US for the past fifteen years, alternating between the artist names The Jazzmasters and Paul Hardcastle.

Not many people had noticed Paul’s name before ’19’, but this was his eleventh single, either under his own name or as part of two groups. “19” was No. 1 single in at least 10 countries including UK, Eire, Germany, Italy, The Netherlands, Sweden, Norway in 1985. No 15 in USA. Won an Ivor Novello for “International Hit Of The Year”. “The Wizard” was the theme tune for BBC’s “Top Of The Pops” for several years & reached No. 15 in the UK in 1986.

Paul Hardcastle made the top 5 in the US R&B singles chart in 1984 with another instrumental, ‘Rain Forest’, selling 300,000 copies.