Raul Midon: "Pick Somebody Up" Video

Video description: Originality in pop these days is a commodity. Raul Midon is rare in music, and his originality and vibrant sound are again evident on his new CD: A World Within a World(Manhattan Records). Following up on his audacious: State of Mind CD, A World Within a World provides an even more memorable song cycle, again revealing great depth, talent, and dedication. Midon who loves Paul Simon, James Taylor and Prince as much as Miles Davis, is a fiercely a single-minded artist, blind from birth, who has always created with his imagination.

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