Paul Laine was born in Vancouver, Canada. He left his home when he was 13 years old, and began playing in bars at from 15 years old! When he became 17 Paul started a management company with friends Les Horne and Fran Adamson and raised enough money to record an album and shopped it in the U.S., immediately garnering the attention of CBS who offered him a deal. It wasn’t long before other labels came to the table, and Paul was snatched up by Elektra. His demo also got the attention of Canadian VJ Terry David Mulligan, and Laine was promptly signed to a management deal with Bruce Allen Talent (Bryan Adams, Loverboy, Michael Buble’, Martina McBride, etc.) and went into Little Mountain Studio to record with mega producer Bruce Fairbairn (Bon Jovi, Aerosmith, Poison, the Scorpions, AC/DC, etc.)
Laine then formed a band around Kenny Kaos (guitar), Scott Brown (bass guitar), Pat Steward (drums) and Gogo (keyboards) to record and perform his compositions. In 1990, he released his debut album called Stick It In Your Ear. Laine has also recorded and arranged backing vocals for Scorpions, as well as the multi platinum release of Poison’s Flesh and Blood.

In 1993 the members of Danger Danger came across Laine’s debut album. They liked his voice and offered him the lead vocalist spot in their band. He recorded 5 albums(Cockroach,Dawn,Four The Hard Way,The Return Of The Great Gildersleeves,Live And Nude) with the band during this period. In addition in 1996 the Can t get Enuff release was out,mostly a collection of demos &outtakes ,that showed the ability of Paul in terms of songwriting and performing! He finally left Danger Danger in 2005 to work with his own band, Shugaazer.
He co-owned a successful recording studio in Vancouver, Canada. In 2007 he wrote, produced and performed all the music to webshow Connected life, which airs weekly on MSN Canada.
After that he released Let It Ride with Darkhorse in 2014 and he also teamed up with his former Danger Danger bandmates Bruno Ravel and Rob Marcello to form "The Defiants", who released their debut self-titled album on April 15, 2016.