Pavol Hammel is a Slovak musician, singer and producer.
He comes from a musical family. He was introduced to music at an early age by his father, a violinist at the Slovak National Theatre. He studied the violin in his youth. As a member of the Železničiarske Art Ensemble orchestra, he played folk, classical and modern dance songs under the direction of a conductor.
At the age of sixteen, he started playing the guitar, which became his signature musical instrument. In 1963, he founded the group Prúdy. He composed the first song in the group Prúdy, entitled "Spievam si pieseň", in 1965. Two years later, Marián Varga began playing with Prúdy. The band's court lyricists at that time were Kamil Peteraj and Boris Filan, with whom Pavol Hammel has collaborated to this day. Since 1972, Hammel has recorded five separate albums with Marián Varga.
In 1994, he founded the promotional agency Rock Pop Bratislava, and in 1999, another one called Rock Production Bratislava, where he still works today. He also worked for the Slovak music publishing house Opus.
Pavol Hammel graduated from the Faculty of Law of Comenius University in Bratislava in 1976. He lives in Bratislava-Devín.